Tim Tebow outruns Jets DB Eric Smith on a game-winning 20-yard touchdown.

As someone who watches a lot of sports news coverage, I get a lot of Tim Tebow talk.  Merrill Hoge, NFL analyst and former professional football player, has been the biggest anti-Tim Tebow cheerleader of them all.  Even Steve Young, himself a quarterback who was as good with his feet as he was with his arm, has been bashing Tebow, saying that the Denver Broncos are a gimmick and that Tebow should run “an NFL-style offense” if he wants to be a quarterback.  On Thursday night, Tim Tebow’s Denver Broncos beat the supposedly superior New York Jets by a score of 17-13 thanks to more of Tim Tebow’s last-minute heroics.

Tebow was the catalyst for his team’s victory, which is appropriate since he’s the team’s best quarterback and best running back (since Knowshon Moreno went down to an injury, which is what Knowshon Moreno does every season).  It wasn’t a pretty performance–Tebow completed 9 of 20 passes for 104 yards and ran 8 times for 68 yards and a touchdown–but when it was time to take the ball into his own hands, Tebow won the game for the Broncos yet again.  On the team’s game-winning 95-yard drive, Tebow completed 3 of 4 passes and accounted for 92 yards rushing and throwing.  Meanwhile, Matt Sanchez was the anti-Tebow, throwing an interception that was returned for a touchdown in the third quarter and completing less than 50 percent of his passes when the pressure was on.

“I actually am shocked,” said stunned Jets all-pro cornerback Darrelle Revis.  “Don’t get me wrong.  I’m not doubting Tim Tebow’s skills or anything like that.  He’s a great football player, but we felt like we had him where we wanted him.”

Getting him where you want him is one thing; doing something about it while you have the former first-round pick cornered is another.  If you can give a mediocre quarterback like Vince Young a pass because he just wins games, then why not Tim Tebow?  Michael Vick sucked at moving the football through the air for years, winning games with his feet and being mostly unable to complete decent passes, but the key phrase in that sentence is “winning games.”  I don’t care if Tim Tebow is the worst throwing quarterback ever, he wins games, and that’s not something the Broncos have done a lot of with a traditional drop-back passer.

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