Originally Posted by
Dreadnought
Pretty well argued, though I don't buy all of it. I think the truth is coaches, like anyone else, will be captives to their own prejudices and fixed ideas. The second raters and/or duds will get stubborn when pushed and fall back on stupid cliches like "he gives us our best chance to win" or some such rubbish, thereby revealing that they basically suck at leadership and management. There is really is no great secret Gnostic body of knowledge that only coaches are privy to - and even the good and great ones make big time errors. Anyone remember Dan Reeve's fixation on Tommy Maddox? In the case of the J-E-T-S Rex didn't want to use Tebow, period. He is stubborn and stupid, which pretty much explains the whole situation, which looks to me like a total full-on Cluster **** between ownership, GM, and Coach. None of these idiots seem to have talked to each other.
Now, as for Tebow, there has been a fair bit of echoing of the extremely shallow and silly analysis heard from ESPN hacks. Tebow can't throw? Nonsense. He can and at times he did throw a good ball, and a very good deep ball. Now, that said, he needed eons of time, his release is slow-to-glacial, his ability to improvise when his primary receiver isn't getting open is very poor, he is risk averse, and often indecisive. Those often killed our passing last year. I suspect its why he could be effective out of play action, and perhaps why he performed so well at the end of games - he started reacting and not trying to overthink everything.
All of these add up to a tough job for a coach. Is Tebow teachable? I dunno, I haven't tried. he did some really cool stuff in 2011, and I think he warrants a chance to learn to play the game properly. Coaches are, however, risk averse creatures themselves, especially the ones clinging to their jobs by their fingernails, and those would tend to be the stubborn and stupid ones. These guys sure don't want to risk their meal tickets and reputations trying to turn Tebow into a good NFL QB. A perfect circle. Of course, banking on a chump like Mark Sanchez is a good way to go unemployed too, so it remains a mystery why Rex Ryan didn't even try rolling the dice, unless you want to consider blind pig headed obstinacy.
PS. I am now even more convinced than ever that John Fox and Mike McCoy are geniuses for having cobbled together and operated a playoff offense, however weird, out of the parts available to them in 2011.