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Thursday, January 15, 2009

Time to tuck in your Teboner


We practice quality journalism here at FishBearSports.com. Which is why I'm posting you my recent text conversation with a reader (who loves to argue with me) regarding college football.

First off, let me preface this post by saying this: I don't have a Teboner. I'm not a fan of Florida's Tim Tebow. I do appreciate his stats and his achievements, but just because the guy preaches in prisons doesn't mean I'm going to jizz my pants (unlike certain Fox broadcasters). So in this post, I'm playing devil's advocate, and I like to push this reader's buttons.

So don't ask me where my kneepad's are, because I don't want to blow Tim Tebow.

Reader (9:22 a.m.): Sanchez to NFL: do you want rice or beans with your taco?
FishBear (9:22 a.m.): Good one.
Reader (9:24 a.m.): Maybe he and Matt L. can bitch about holding the clip board
FishBear (9:24 a.m.): hahaha
Reader (9:27 a.m.): Bradford is too pale
FishBear (9:27 a.m.): True that
Reader (9:27 a.m.): KC Chiefs should draft Sanchez
Reader (9:28 a.m.): The beaners would love that
Reader (9:29 a.m.): Sanchez passes to Gonzalez
Reader (9:29 a.m.): Fucking hub caps would be gone in that parking lot.
Reader (9:31 a.m.): If Seattle takes Sanchez, he could pick apples after practice...supplement the income
Reader (9:32 a.m.): Hope Detroit takes him. They got shitty salsa there
Reader (9:34 a.m.): Tim Tebow and Carrie Underwood should team up...
Reader (9:35 a.m.): "Jesus throw the pass"
Reader (9:36 a.m.): Well??
FishBear (9:36 a.m.): Tebow, I can't stand him.
Reader (9:37 a.m.): Of the three, he will be the best
Reader (9:37 a.m.): Jesus loves him
Reader (9:41 a.m.): Did you know Tim's parents do it missionary position?
FishBear (9:42 a.m.): Wow man
Reader (9:43 a.m.): What? I am on a roll
FishBear (9:45 a.m.): You must be bored
Reader (9:46 a.m.): No, just good!
FishBear (9:46 a.m.): I think Bradford looks fourteen years old.
FishBear (9:46 a.m.): On Tebow: It is insane that people say a Heisman winner, two-time National Champion and a guy who has thrown 67 touchdowns to 11 interceptions can't play QB in the NFL.
Reader (9:46 a.m.): OVERRATED guy
Reader (9:51 a.m.): Wake up. He can't. OK to be a great college QB. Will be piss poor in the NFL. He as peaked. As a TE or possibly RB...he will be damn good.
Reader (9:52 a.m.): Charlie Ward. Enough said.
FishBear (9:54 a.m.): I'm not saying he won't or shouldn't switch positions. I'm just saying if you just looked at his passing stats and not his running ability or his name, he'd be a 1st round pick.
Reader (9:56 a.m.): Lots of factors of stats: who he plays for; how good they are; who he plays against; how good those teams are.
FishBear (9:57 a.m.): Answer me this though if I told you X player has 67:11 TD:INT ratio, two-time Heisman candidate and Heisman winner, 6,391 yards passing, would you have your doubts he could play QB in the NFL?
Reader (9:58 a.m.): Good example: Sanchez plays in the Crap-10. 4 teams in the Pac-10 make Sanchez look like an Aztec god.
Reader (10:00 a.m.): Oh that's right, his team is three times as good as those teams. Hell, I could make you a first round pick playing behind the USC or FLA offensive line.
FishBear (10:00 a.m.): Tebow plays in the SEC so I'd say regardless of how good his teammates are he's playing good competition at least 7 games a year.
Reader (10:01 a.m.): YEP! College is not all it seems.
Reader (10:03 a.m.): Dude, stats in college football is just like stats in cows. There is more to the story. The breeding, the environment.
Reader (10:03 a.m.): Oh and the SEC is overfucking rated!
FishBear (10:04 a.m.): You could say any conference is overrated, so I'm not buying that argument.
Reader (10:06 a.m.): What you say is very true. A good team makes the player but put Tim in Pullman and he is a great player with skill on a team that would lose to XXXXX[Editor's note: high school team]
FishBear (10:06 a.m.): You can use stats to dig deeper.
Reader (10:06 a.m.): Dig deeper?
FishBear (10:07 am.): Well I'm just saying you can't throw stats away because mechanics alone are overrated. I'm not going to draft Joe Shitstain from Dicksucker University just because he has a pretty release.
Reader (10:08 a.m.): Lets talk more about Dicksucker U

That's the high quality of reader conversation we encourage here at FishBear Sports.