(04-07-2021, 11:24 AM)flgatorsandjags Wrote:

(04-07-2021, 10:35 AM)Bullseye Wrote: Though I wanted Bridgewater, I didn't compare him to Manning (at least I don't recall).  But taking your representations at face value, do you seriously think the same fanbase that put up banners across the I-95 overpass, wore sandwich boards to the games, petitioned the President to make the Jaguars draft Tebow, and became BroncGators actually fares better in this analysis?!?

There isn't any question if we would of been a better team with Tebow instead of Gabbert running the option with Tebow and MJD like Den used with him and McGahee.  Did I say you compared Teddy to Manning?

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No you didn't.  But I was clarifying that point.  If I'm wrong enough to want the Jaguars to expend a high pick to get Bridgewater, how big of a leap is it for a person to assume I would compare him to Manning?


As for your first, point I don't know that to be true.  Neither guy was very good.  Even if we ran the option, the novel approach might have worked for a game or so until teams adjusted to it.  When it got shut down, Tebow wouldn't be able to pass effectively enough to get them out of the fronts that would have been designed and implemented to shut down the option.

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