Tebow and two other guys...
Gotta like this headline. Basically, it says Tim Tebow and two other guys are up for the Heisman trophy this year. Those two other guys have names. They really do.
Don't get me wrong. I think Tim Tebow is one helluva football player. I just happen to thing those two other guys, Sam Bradford and Colt McCoy, are too. I think those other two guys might have even had better years. If I had a vote, it would probably go to Bradford. I think last year Tebow deserved the trophy. He was Florida's Mr. Everything. This year he was asked to do a lot less because the talent around him was better. The result was (and is) an amazing team, but it's more of a group effort. Bradford and McCoy are more important to the success of their teams than Timmy Tebow is to Florida. I will grant you, if Tebow was asked to do more, he could deliver. He did it in the SEC Championship game without Percy Harvin. Still, if asked who had the better year, I'd have to say Bradford.
I don't know if that'll matter. A lot of the experts around here are saying Tebow will win based on a few factors.
1) Bradford and McCoy are both from the Big 12, and will split the votes that would normally go to one strong candidate from that conference.
2) A vast majority of the sports writers with votes were in the climate controlled Georgia Dome, watching Tebow's gritty performance against Alabama, where he pretty much willed his team to victory. They weren't in the freezing cold of Arrowhead Stadium watching Bradford pick apart Missouri, because well, it was freezing cold, and sports writers like being coddled.
3) The defining Tebow moment that everyone saw, that wasn't even on a football field, when he was in tears at the press conference after the lone Florida loss, telling the world that he's going to play harder, and push his team harder, than anyone's ever seen before. It was sincere and he made it happen, and everyone ate it up with a spoon. Still, people...it was a press conference.
4) Those experts are around here, and here happens to be Florida (especially Jacksonville, Florida), where Tim Tebow is from, and can do no wrong.
I don't know who will actually win the thing on Saturday, and no matter which of the three does, it'll go to a deserving player. I just think it shouldn't be between Tebow and...well...two other guys.
Don't get me wrong. I think Tim Tebow is one helluva football player. I just happen to thing those two other guys, Sam Bradford and Colt McCoy, are too. I think those other two guys might have even had better years. If I had a vote, it would probably go to Bradford. I think last year Tebow deserved the trophy. He was Florida's Mr. Everything. This year he was asked to do a lot less because the talent around him was better. The result was (and is) an amazing team, but it's more of a group effort. Bradford and McCoy are more important to the success of their teams than Timmy Tebow is to Florida. I will grant you, if Tebow was asked to do more, he could deliver. He did it in the SEC Championship game without Percy Harvin. Still, if asked who had the better year, I'd have to say Bradford.
I don't know if that'll matter. A lot of the experts around here are saying Tebow will win based on a few factors.
1) Bradford and McCoy are both from the Big 12, and will split the votes that would normally go to one strong candidate from that conference.
2) A vast majority of the sports writers with votes were in the climate controlled Georgia Dome, watching Tebow's gritty performance against Alabama, where he pretty much willed his team to victory. They weren't in the freezing cold of Arrowhead Stadium watching Bradford pick apart Missouri, because well, it was freezing cold, and sports writers like being coddled.
3) The defining Tebow moment that everyone saw, that wasn't even on a football field, when he was in tears at the press conference after the lone Florida loss, telling the world that he's going to play harder, and push his team harder, than anyone's ever seen before. It was sincere and he made it happen, and everyone ate it up with a spoon. Still, people...it was a press conference.
4) Those experts are around here, and here happens to be Florida (especially Jacksonville, Florida), where Tim Tebow is from, and can do no wrong.
I don't know who will actually win the thing on Saturday, and no matter which of the three does, it'll go to a deserving player. I just think it shouldn't be between Tebow and...well...two other guys.
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