Tebow Train rolls through the Steel Curtain, Drew Brees tames the Lions from Motown, and a (Crimson) Tidal Wave crashes through New Orleans.

 Yet another very predictable week, the Steelers blew out Denver and Tim Tebow 42-9, the Lions pull out a win against the grossly overrated Saints and their Quarterback Drew “the human Asterisk” Brees, and LSU falls to Alabama who were a slightly worse team.


 Not so much. Tim Tebow pulls out the best game of his short career, going 10 of 21 for 316 yards and 2 TD’s along with 50 yards on the ground and a TD. Which completely out dueled Big Ben Roethleisberger whose passing stats were 22 of 40 with 289 and a TD with 1 Int.
Now, the stats don’t tell the whole story, but do they ever? If Eric Decker doesn’t drop two perfect passes from Tebow then he has about a 60 percent completion percentage instead of 50. If his receivers don’t get interfered with he has about 70 percent. Now some people might say that I’m making excuses for Tebow, but honestly, is it his fault his receiver dropped two passes or that the Steelers got called for pass interference. Now I’ve seen a lot of people saying Tebow shouldn’t get as much credit as it was all Demayrius Thomas. Are you kidding me!? Who threw the ball to him?

 Now, if I told you a team who averaged 41 points a game at home was playing a team that backed into the playoffs as the number six seed that had a problem with committing to many penalties at the worst times, you would probably give the edge to the team that averaged 41 points... Unless that team is the New Orleans Saints and you work for ESPN. All I heard all week was how the Detroit Lions were going to pull off an upset of the Saints because Ndamakong Suh was playing this time. Really, a defensive tackle makes that much of a difference? Of course no one mentioned how the Saints have the best interior line in the NFL or at the very least the best guard tandem in the NFL. Well regardless of what the so called experts think Drew Brees had such an amazing game that honestly, I think Green Bay and Aaron Rodgers would have had a hard time keeping up with them. Not only did the Saints destroy Detroit through the air with 466 yards passing, but also on the ground with 168 yards rushing. It was an all-around thrashing and I expect nothing less against the 49ers in Candlestick this week.

 And finally, the part of my blog where the “experts” on ESPN were right, somehow. Despite being overmatched in what should have been a home game, Alabama was able to not only win, but destroy LSU who looked like a JV team playing against the varsity on offense. On defense they didn’t play bad but Bama’s offense played better with A.J. McCarron playing like a man possessed. Now, had Les Miles played Jarrett Lee in the second half, maybe it would have been a different story, but it all felt like Bama was just the better prepared team.

Alright so the experts got one right for once, congrats ESPN.

CONGRATULATIONS

Congratulations to Robert Griffin III on an amazing Heisman season. Happy that a high character, Christian individual won the Heisman. RG3, as predicted, destroyed Andrew Luck and had one of the best acceptance speeches I’ve heard in a while.

Robert Griffin III VS Andrew Luck

 Christian Fauria of ESPN First take seems convinced than a certain overachieving kid from Texas who likes wearing ninja turtle tube socks with his matching “turtles don’t do drugs” T-shirt is going to win the Heisman. If you have read this blog before then you probably know this kid is none other Robert Griffin III or RG3 as the cool kids like to say. Now think about that for a minute, the little known quarterback from Baylor is going to beat out Andrew Luck? You may very well be asking yourself what this guy is smoking, but if you look at the evidence you will see that Robert Griffin III should win the Heisman trophy.

 RG3 has gone 267 of 369(72.4%) for 3,998 yards passing with 36 touchdowns to only 6 interceptions. On the ground he has 644 yards on 161 rushes with 9 touchdowns and is averaging 4 yards a carry. That blows Andrew Luck’s 261 of 373 for 3,170 out of the water. He also has 1 less touchdown than RG3 and 4 more interceptions. Also, RG3 has much less talent around him at Baylor than Andrew Luck does at Stanford. Think about that, Griffin III has better stats than Andrew Luck with much less talent around him. The only thing I can see that Andrew Luck has going for him is a harder schedule, but I think the better stats with worse talent outweighs a slightly harder schedule.

I am expecting a well-spoken, very intelligent young man, wearing his ninja turtle tube socks with his suit, accepting the Heisman trophy in a few weeks in New York with all of the eloquence of a well trained politician.

Tim Tebow VS John Elway

 For the first time in my life I believe I can agree with an ESPN talking head 90% of the time. A seemingly Herculean feat to say the least considering that this blog's name is a slap in the face to ESPN and NFL network analysts everywhere.
This man, who seems to embody the idea of No Nonsense Football, is ESPN First Take star Skip Bayless (@realskipbayless for all you twitter junkies).
The only person on any station that said, long before he was the starter, that Tim Tebow would be a success in the NFL. As he likes to say “I never said he will make a pro bowl, but he is a force of competitive nature” and that “he(Tebow) just wins games.”
I happen to agree with his analysis, in fact I would say that Tim Tebow is a better QB now that both Cam Newton, and better than John Elway was at the end of his rookie year.
 
  Everyone says that he can’t throw the football, really? 1506 yards passing in 9 games with 13 touchdowns to 4 interceptions is someone who can’t throw? And that’s only half his stats as he doesn't just throw the ball with his 682 yards rushing and 9 touchdowns.
 
“He can’t win in the NFL, he is garbage!” -Stephen A. Smith.
 
 Hmmm, “are  you kidding me?”, as Skip Bayless loves to say. He is 6-3 in his career. For those unwilling to do the math that means winning twice as many games as you lose in your first 9 starts means you can’t play in the NFL. Sounds like nonsense to me. If this was the record of a veteran pocket passer then nobody would say there was anything wrong with it.

 Cam Newton, who is touted as being the greatest young QB in the NFL since Dan Marino, has thrown 14 interceptions, more than 3 times as many as Tim Tebow with only 2 more starts than Tebow. Cam Newton also has thrown 12 touchdowns 1 less than Tebow has in 2 less starts than Cam. He has also lost twice as many games as Tim, and has over 100 yards less rushing. In fact Cam only leads in three categories; completion percentage, passing yards (as his coach is running the spread offense and not the triple option), and has one more rushing TD than Tebow.

 So Stephen A. Smith, you think Tim Tebow is so terrible, well what about Cam Newton who you, like the entire ESPN collective think is the greatest thing since sliced bread? Even Mr. Bayless has said he would take Cam over Tebow, that is part of the 10% of the time I don’t agree with him.

 What’s that Mr. Tebow hater? You’re still not convinced; you say Cam Newton is an untested QB who may never amount to anything? Alright then how about a juicier, more controversial comparison.

 John Elway had 1,663 yards passing in his rookie year, with a completion percentage of 47.5 with 7 touchdown passes and 14 interceptions passing and 146 yards rushing with 1 touchdown on the ground. Tebow beats Elway in all of those categories, and Elway had more starts and more pass attempts. Tim has a completion percentage of 47.2 essentially the same as Elway did at that point. Tim Tebow also has more wins and less losses (6-3) right now than Elway did in his whole rookie year (4-7, he didn’t play in the other 5 games).

 I think we should all just shut up about how Tim can’t throw the ball and can’t win games and all of the other nonsense ESPN analysts such as Stephen A. Smith and Chris Carter would lead you to believe. Just give Tebow the time you would give any other young QB. Imagine if Denver had rode John Elway out of town after his first 9 starts, someone else would have gotten the future HOF, so who knows, maybe Tebow is really a John Elway trapped in the body of a linebacker.