Tim Tebow, Eli Manning, and notions of clutchness

[dwmyers]

Url is here:

http://codeandfootball.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/tim-tebow-eli-manning-and-notions-of-clutchness/

Excerpt:

Tim Tebow has managed to capture the imaginations of many announcers, fans, and analysts, including the eye of one Benjamin Morris. Ben posits, among other things, that Tebow is being held back by his own conservatism, that an inability to take passing risks in the first three quarters of the game is tossed aside in the fourth and some more true representation of his passing skill emerges.

This isn’t the first time that Ben has speculated on the nature of young quarterbacks and interceptions (This link is the most important, but also see here and here). One contradictory notion that has come out of his analyses is that a lot of interceptions early in the career of a quarterback tends to be a good thing. It suggests a quarterback with exceptional skills testing those skills out — the idea that a talented cook has to get burned by his own grease to learn his chops spills over into the quarterbacking world.

 

[Phrozen Phil]

It's interesting that the coaching staff aren't getting more credit for the Bronco's wins. Tebow wasn't getting it done before John Fox, but Fox is not event mentioned in terms of Denver wins.

 

[Future]

I think it's interesting that the DEFENSE doesn't get any credit. They're the ones who were holding people to 13 or less a game. Granted some of that stems from the fact they didn't play any good offenses until the Pats, but you can't do what Tebow has done without a defense that's playing phenomenal football.

Thinking without benefit of numbers a bit further, Eli just doesn’t get ruffled. His play doesn’t suffer any effects of pressure. And that means, no matter how inadequate the team around him becomes, he’s still dangerous.

I hope this isn't meant as a compliment. Elie doesn't get ruffled because he doesn't usually have a clue what's going on :laugh2:

 

[dwmyers]

Clueless?

While I tend to think that Eli and Droopy Dog were separated at birth, his
4th quarter passer rating is nothing to sneeze at (111.8, last I looked).

:bang2:

 

[tyke1doe]

It's interesting that the coaching staff aren't getting more credit for the Bronco's wins. Tebow wasn't getting it done before John Fox, but Fox is not event mentioned in terms of Denver wins.

Tebow only played three games last year without John Fox, and he was 1-2 in those games. But Fox is getting praise for altering his scheme to do what Tebow does best. From 1-4 to 9-6. I think Fox is coach of the year.