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<\/p>\nRUSH: No, I didn\u2019t. I did not see that. Michael Strahan was talking about McNabb yesterday? (interruption) You…? (interruption) Oh. (interruption) Oh. (interruption) Snerdley is telling me that Michael Strahan…? (interruption) This on the Fox pregame show he was urging McNabb not to retire? Oh. Ohhhh. He was explaining why they can\u2019t give it up, why they just can\u2019t walk away? It\u2019s just too big? Oh, okay. (interruption) It was sad? These guys said they can\u2019t walk away. They can\u2019t walk away from the money, the applause, the cheers. (sigh) Yeah, it is terribly sad. Very, very sad. Speaking of sad, the Chicago Bears. For those of you Bears fans, you got a coach that doesn\u2019t think quarterback matters. Lovie Smith. I remember back in the days of… I don\u2019t even know who the quarterback was.<\/p>\n
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Oh! It was Rex Grossman, and, of course, they did go to the Super Bowl with Grossman, but Grossman wasn\u2019t the reason. I can remember Lovie Smith at the press conference (impression), “The quarterback position…” He talked about it as though it was just any other position on the field. So they\u2019ve got this back up to Cutler, Caleb, and he\u2019s had three INTs in the past couple weeks. It doesn\u2019t look promising. So after the action yesterday, the word spread the Bears might rethink calling McNabb to come in and at Lovie Smith\u2019s press conference, he said, “No way! We are not calling anybody! We\u2019re not bringing anybody in! We\u2019re gonna use what we\u2019ve got.” So you Bears fans, I feel for you, but Lovie is being consistent: The quarterback position is the same as any other position on the field. <\/p>\n
Yeah, I saw the Denver game. I see every game, Snerdley. I have DirecTV Sunday Ticket. Speaking of that, there\u2019s a great piece — and I mentioned this earlier — that somehow made it into USA Today. Oh, I\u2019m sorry! It\u2019s USAToday.com. That explains it. I don\u2019t know that it made the dead tree version of the paper. I haven\u2019t seen a dead tree version. I was trying to think the other day the last time I actually “read” a newspaper. It has to be years. I do it all now online as a lot of people do. Anyway, this is a piece by a guy named Larry Taunton, T-a-u-n-t-o-n. He is “the director of Fixed Point Foundation, the author of The Grace Effect: How the Power of One Life Can Reverse the Corruption of Unbelief,” and he has a piece here on Tebow at USAToday.com.<\/p>\n
“Riding a Bronco to the rescue is former college football superstar Tim Tebow. Here is a young man of whom we can all be proud. He is clean-cut, articulate, humble, gracious in victory, hard-working, and, if that weren\u2019t enough, he\u2019s a humanitarian. No, not one of those ‘humanitarians\u2019 who does his giving in the public eye, but a humanitarian who gives quietly in the orphanages of the Philippines. There is only one problem. Many in the news media don\u2019t approve. Yes, these same commentators who bemoan the decline of football civilization continually tell us that Tebow isn\u2019t good enough to be in the NFL. That alone is not unusual. The list of Tebow-hating commentators is long: Boomer Esiason, Colin Cowherd, and Merril Hoge to name only a few.<\/p>\n
“Of course, we expect our sports jocks to give us their opinions, and sometimes that means evaluating the prospective talent of players coming up from the collegiate ranks. Tebow is no exception to this and, while still a quarterback at Florida, there was some question about his ability to play that same position at the professional level. Only here\u2019s the thing: The current wave of criticism leveled at Tebow isn\u2019t about football. Not really. Oh, they will all swear that it is. Tebow\u2019s shortcomings as a football player are expounded upon every week: He lacks accuracy, experience, and football I.Q. (we all know that you must be an intellectual to play [football]); the offense he is best suited for will never work in the NFL; he can\u2019t adapt to the professional game,” and on and on and on.<\/p>\n
“Our cue, however, that Tebow\u2019s numerous critics aren\u2019t motivated by a desire to protect the integrity of the sport from unworthies is revealed in the manner of their critique. To say that they have reserved a special kind of venom for Tim Tebow is an understatement. Indeed, to hear them speak, one imagines the Denver Broncos are quarterbacked by Betty White. Only here\u2019s another thing: Tim Tebow\u2019s football credentials are impeccable,” and, by the way, there is a website called Cold, Hard Football Facts and it is one by a guy named Kerry Byrne, and Kerry Byrne gets the quarterback rating or the passer rating in the NFL. Is it the passer rating or quarterback rating? I forget what it\u2019s called. It\u2019s what everybody reports. They have added to it.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ve added a couple of stats to it beyond passing — turnovers, this kind of thing — and, according to their analysis (and it\u2019s a few games, not a lot Tebow\u2019s played), he\u2019s outperforming every quarterback he faces. He\u2019s playing better than every quarterback he faces in the games that they\u2019ve won. He\u2019s 5-1 with the Broncos. It\u2019s inescapable. Tebow is playing; the idea he can\u2019t play is ludicrous. This is this guy\u2019s point. “Tebow isn\u2019t, to be sure, playing at the level of New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees, but who is?” Now, this is a great question: “Do we hear lengthy discourses on Curtis Painter\u2019s or Tyler Palko\u2019s ability to play in the NFL?” Painter is the quarterback at Indianapolis for Manning, Tyler Palko the Chiefs. They\u2019re not having this.<\/p>\n
Tebow\u2019s outplaying them like the lights out but the with sports media is not telling us how these guys can\u2019t play, and they gotta be run out of the league and they are worthless, and they don\u2019t have what it takes. But they are telling us this about Tebow. Despite the fact that “Tebow is winning. How dare he. Who does he think he is? Now 5-1 as a starter, Tebow\u2019s critics are indignant that [he] didn\u2019t pack his cleats and go home the moment they declared him inadequate. The simple fact is, they want him to fail. And now, after so much ink and vitriol predicting [he would fail, they need him to fail,” just like I said they needed Sarah Palin to fail after setting that up. <\/p>\n
“So what gives? Why does even Tebow\u2019s own coaching staff and management offer so little public support” for the guy? Well, you and I all know the answer, here. “Jake Plummer, the latest to take pot shots at [Tebow], might have been speaking for anti-Tebowites everywhere when he said in an interview on a Phoenix radio station that he would like Tebow more if he would ‘shut up\u2019 about his faith in Jesus Christ.” Just shut up about that and it\u2019s okay, Tim! “And with that little comment, the cat, as they say, was out of the bag. Plummer said what the commentators wouldn\u2019t say. Their dislike for Tim Tebow is not, as they would have us believe, about his throwing motion or his completion percentage; it\u2019s all about his open professions of faith and his goody-two shoes image. When it comes right down to it, [American culture today doesn\u2019t] want heroes who are truly good.”<\/p>\n
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Instead, “We wait for evidence that he really isn\u2019t that good. We hope to see him kick a player on the ground, drop an F-bomb on television, or Tweet pictures of his privates” like Anthony Weiner. “In the meantime, we always have Penn State\u2019s Jerry Sandusky to make us feel better about ourselves,” because, in the end, Tim Tebow makes the sports media realize… You fill in the blank. That\u2019s “Larry Taunton is the director of Fixed Point Foundation and author of The Grace Effect: How the Power of One Life Can Reverse the Corruption of Unbelief.” Now, obviously, this guy is also a man of faith. But aside from that, I\u2019ll tell you the reason why this piece appealed to me is that this one thing here at the end: Our culture does take people, set \u2019em up to knock \u2019em down. <\/p>\n
There is a psychology behind that, and the psychology is rooted in inferiority. We don\u2019t want anybody to be better than we are so that we don\u2019t have to deal with how bad we are. If everybody\u2019s a scumbag, then everybody can be a scumbag. But if there\u2019s somebody who\u2019s not a scumbag who does well, well, then maybe it\u2019s not okay to be a scumbag. It\u2019s the whole liberal thing about not wanting judgment out there. It\u2019s also about the fact he\u2019s highly visible on his love of Jesus Christ. That just makes \u2019em nervous, \u2019cause the people who don\u2019t believe in Jesus Christ are the ones who are bothered.<\/p>\n
They may even go to church every Sunday or whatever, but they don\u2019t really believe in Jesus Christ. Tebow smacks \u2019em in the head with that, too. That makes \u2019em uncomfortable, but this guy\u2019s right. There\u2019s everything in the world to admire about the guy, “except that Jesus business.” That just drives people nuts. He says thank you. He calls reporters “mister.” He does all this charitable work behind the scenes. He gives credit to his teammates. He has no ego whatsoever. He\u2019s got his own general manger — John Elway — hoping he fails. Well, it appears that way. Elway, two games ago, Tebow scores a winning touchdown and Elway is applauding like he\u2019s at a golf tournament. And they asked Elway, “Have you found your quarterback of the future?” <\/p>\n
“No way,” he said. “Has to be better on third downs! He\u2019s gotta throw the ball better, damn it! He\u2019s gotta throw the ball better, gotta be better on third down. No, we haven\u2019t found our quarterback yet,” and despite that, despite that! You think your boss hates you? Despite that, Tebow\u2019s out doing what he\u2019s doing and not whining and not complaining, and that people don\u2019t like. Meanwhile, we\u2019re romancing the Occupy people. We\u2019re romancing Obama. We\u2019re romancing society\u2019s corrupt perverted losers, because in a comparative thing, who doesn\u2019t look better than somebody defecating or urinating all over themselves? So we\u2019re kinda happy to have \u2019em out there. In comparison, we look pretty good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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