Posted by Ok, the sporting world is going nuts over Tim Tebow.
People either hate him or love him. There doesn’t appear to be a middle ground with him. I think he is proving a point that I have long advocated about the NFL.
The point being that the option can’t work in the NFL.
I truly believe that the option can work in the NFL and that it could work well.
Proof: The wildcat that was popular for a season or 2 was effectively running the option. It was effective.
Tim Tebow right now. He is winning games due to the Broncos effectiveness at running the ball. (Less turnovers/clock control)
If you were to run the option in the NFL you would have to construct your team differently (obviously).
You would need a good defense and a QB that would be able to run the offense.
The reason the option is not run in the NFL is that you can’t have a guy you pay $15-20 million dollars running into 250lb+ LB’s and DE’s every play without him getting hurt sooner or later. But you could pay your first QB $5mil with your 2nd and 3rd string making 3 and 2 mil respectivlely (this is still less than what you would pay your 1 franchise guy – saving money to spend on that defense.) Also you would get first choice of all of these QB’s since you’re the only one in the NFL that runs this offense. So you start with Tim Tebow and back him up with Denard Robinson or Vince Young.
The other reason the option isn’t run in the NFL, is the fact that NFL coaches want to be seen as geniuses and score lots of points. That’s done by spreading the field and running many different formations to make youself look smart.
But if you’re the only team that runs the option in the NFL, teams would have to train SPECIFICALLY for your team. You would be completely different than every other offense in the NFL. Short weeks, teams would only have 3-4 days to plan for you. This would be such an advantage. Some players in the pros might not have ever played against the option with the high school and pro shifting the spread offense.
ANother argument is that the NFL Defenses have such great athletes that they would shut the option down immediately. Well the offense has great athletes too. The US Naval Academies run the option and they definitely have inferior athletes for the most part than the colleges they typically play against. Yet they win more than they lose and the opposing team usually knows the play (there are only so many ways that you can run the option).
So Tim Timbow – run the option and prove all the experts wrong.
I’d like to see a NFL team go all in with it.
OMFG I totally agree! I have been saying all of these points for years. The problem, as you illustrated, requires a severe paradigm shift – and it would work. It also requires some cajones on the part of a coach. To your point teams invest loads of cash (look at the money wasted in KC) on a QB and are terrified of the idea of him getting hurt.
To me College football is way more exciting to watch.
Obvioulsy, this tactic only works if you can play good defense. Patriots scoring 30+ points in the first half doomed the Broncos
On a related tangent… Does Husain Abdullah of the Vikings perform some symbolic, “show-boat” Muslim-based gesture upon every good luck turn he encounters on the field?
Tebow is a prick who makes sure to act less a prick and more a priest. His p-e-r-s-o-n-a-l beliefs takes precedence over everyone else on the field, in the stadium, on the continent and around the world. Imagine a world in which everyone acted just like him. Wow… almost everyone does… and, thus, wars, genocide, female-focused violence, animal cruelty — all in the name of a Gawd.
Tebow… you suck. And given have a chance, I’d kick you in the face during one of your te-bows.
Lol – yep I care nothing for his religious antics.
I do totally believe that Elway made Tebow the starter this year with the full intention of him totally crapping out and losing games so he could get the QB he really wanted – Andrew Luck.
Even now his only endorsement of Tebow is that he is the starter going into training camp. Guess what – He was the starter going into training camp last year! How’d that turn out?