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Poor Tim Tebow. No matter how much time he spends on his knees, he's probably not going to be the starting quarterback in Denver. Kyle Orton has been practicing exclusively with the Broncos first-team offense. Tebow hasn't gotten a single snap. According to Woody Paige at the Denver Post, the young Christian is having trouble coming to terms with what the idea that the prophecies might not be true: More »
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Yesterday, the swirling melodrama around Vince Young's crazy head reached another level when transcripts of Merril Hoge's interview with a Pittsburgh radio station circulated. Even though Hoge's Young-bashing has been evident since the quarterback entered the league, he went a little overboard this time around. His quote: "He's a baby. He's a soft baby. He's been a baby since they .... I stumbled across people who recruited him in college. They really tried to get him to go to Oklahoma. One of reasons they stopped their recruiting process was because he was such a baby . . . He was the most immature crybaby they ever met. He was soft; he wasn't tough." More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5054302&view=rss&microfeed=true As Vince Young begins what appears to be a rapid career ascent following the dramatic win over the Giants on Sunday, we thought we'd take this moment to point out the above analysis from ESPN's Merrill Hoge, earlier this year. Includes the phrase: "The Titans are stuck with Vince Young for the next three years, and they can't get rid of him, no matter how much they obviously might want to." Yep. More »
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