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Eh Quinn was never able to win the big game in college, and from his previous starts in the NFL ,it doesn't look like he's gonna do it at this stage either. The guy is gonna be a clipboard-holder for the rest of his career, just accept it bro.
GQ: Brady Quinn Debunks Year Of The Tebow: 'We've Had A Lot Of ... Luck'
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 7:15 am
Written by: Eric Adelson
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The Tim Tebow debate has raged into the off-season, and by now we know the usual detractors: guys like Terrell Suggs, Nick Barnett, Shawne Merriman, Brady Quinn ...
Wait. What?
That's right, in a thoroughly reported feature by Yahoo! Sports NFL writer Michael Silver in the March issue of GQ, one of the Tebow critics is actually fellow Denver Broncos quarterback Brady Quinn.
And it's not just one subtle jab, either. Early in his piece, Silver gets Quinn talking about how Tebow got promoted to starter:
Early in the season, there was a game when Kyle [Orton] got hurt and the coaches were calling for me to go in, but Kyle got up and finished the game out. So I was the second-string guy. Then, a few weeks later, they decided to put Tim in. I felt like the fans had a lot to do with that. Just ’cause they were chanting his name. There was a big calling for him. No, I didn't have any billboards. That would have been nice.
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Silver continues on with an oral history of the season, sprinkling in choice quotes from the likes of Kurt Warner (who compares Tebow to a character in the Bible) and Suggs (who calls Tebow "terrible").
Then it's back to Quinn, who demystifies Tebow's late-game prowess:
The entire game, the defensive line is chasing the quarterback around, and that wears down the pass rush. Meanwhile, the defensive backs are chasing receivers, but you only throw eight passes, so they start to feel lazy. It only takes that one play, that one big pass, for a touchdown.
To be sure, others in the story feel similarly. Merriman, of the Bills, tells Silver, "His teammates are making him look a lot better than he is." Suggs, of the Ravens, says, "No matter how many bad games Tim Tebow is gonna have, it’s 'He’s great.' I'll never understand it."
But the most glaring quotes -- though not the most hard-hitting -- come from Quinn.
In one passage, Broncos star linebacker Von Miller gives credit to the team -- "I mean, you could just see our team's resiliency in action. Nobody was giving up" -- and then Quinn offers a different reason for the Broncos' surge: "We’ve had a lot of, I guess, luck, to put it simply."
Now, Quinn isn't saying anything that hasn't been thought by pretty much everyone. Tebow didn't win football games with dominance or cunning. It's hard to pin his leadership on anything other than his all-world will and, as Warner suggests, "divine intervention." But in this story we have everyone in the Broncos organization, from coach John Fox to president John Elway to Miller, saying all the right things. Then there's the backup quarterback, Brady Quinn.
And not everything Quinn says is about football. The former Notre Dame star also questions how Tebow prays.
"If you look at it as a whole," he tells Silver, "there's a lot of things that just don't seem very humble to me. When I get that opportunity, I'll continue to lead not necessarily by trying to get in front of the camera and praying but by praying with my teammates, you know?"
Will Quinn get that opportunity? Fox says he wants two new quarterbacks to contend for the top job in Denver in the fall. So despite leading his team to a playoff victory, Tebow will have plenty of headwinds when training camp opens.
And it's likely not all of the doubters will be outside the Broncos complex.
Eh Quinn was never able to win the big game in college, and from his previous starts in the NFL ,it doesn't look like he's gonna do it at this stage either. The guy is gonna be a clipboard-holder for the rest of his career, just accept it bro.
It appears Brady Quinn is done... in Denver.
This will end well for Quinn
Griping about your coach not giving you playing time always does
It would be wise for Quinn to take cover if he hears lightning close by.
sounds jealous as tbh
He's already apologized. Not man enough to suck it up and now not man enough to own his gripes.
While I understand his frustration, complaining about special privilege (the fans chanting for Tebow) when you're from Notre Dame is hilarious
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But Tebow is way overrated TBH
yeah he is.
TBH saying the things he should say, when a scrub is getting all sorts of praise for putting up absolutely terrible numbers and you're playing behind him.
This. His bull teams got destroyed in the bowl games they were gifted.
Also, this shouldn't be news. Quinn has always been buttburt. Think back to his privileged Notre Dame experience turned NFL draft reality when he opted to retreat into a private room than take the embarrassment of being the last pick drafted after team by team wisely passed on him.
He's always lacked the mentality and for ude to do whatever it took. Complaining about unfair treatment to a magazine then making excuses/apologizing is just the latest in a long line of butthurt, whiny pissant behavior.
Especially since Quinn was the beneficiary of that exact treatment in Cleveland, when he was the peoples' choice over Derek Anderson.
he loved the Browns growing up
Especially since Quinn was the beneficiary of that exact treatment in Cleveland, when he was the peoples' choice over Derek Anderson.
True
For every Tebow supporter, there's a hater..I don't understand how a player can be overrated, when every other person is constantly criticizing his game..
Quinn is ass..if he had played better in the final preseason game, he would have received a chance to get some PT..he had one of the worst games I've seen from a QB, in a minute, worse than any game from Tebow, at any point, this season(including the Lions game)..
Tebow was the starting QB on a team that made the 2nd round of the playoffs, despite having one of the most flawed rosters in NFL playoffs history
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