Best QB's 2007

No need to wait until the final game of 2007 to say that Tom Brady is the best pro quarterback this year--hands down!
Tim Tebow won the Heisman Trophy Saturday night in New York as college football's most outstanding player, but he too was the best in '07. Colt Brennan played on an undefeated team and his team depended on him for its success just as must as the Gators depended on Tebow, maybe even more, but that doesn't make him a better football player or quarterback than Tebow.
Both Tebow and Brennan have mechanical issues when throwing the football and I can't help but conjure up the ghost of Jeff George when I watch Brennan sling the ball off his shoulder and throw without help from his back foot. Like George, he is extremely accurate and when the defense finally cheats up on all of June Jone's "run and shoot" flat routes, Colt makes them pay with deadly accurate deep balls as well. I just can't get past the second rate competition that makes up the majority of Hawaii's schedule. Tim Tebow plays in the highest level competition week in and week out in the SEC. Yes, his team lost three games, but he didn't have a terrible game in any of those to cost his team the game in any of them. Tebow needs to tighten up his delivery and tweak his own balance issues, but he is the "new breed" of "crossover" QB that can run like Larry Csonka and throw as well as the top guys in the game.
Check out my postings at AmericasBestQB.com from this past spring. I wrote articles on both Brady and Tebow. After the Patriots acquired Randy Moss, I wrote that the Patriots would win the Super Bowl. We still have to wait for that prediction to come true, but for Tebow, the question marks were big about his passing ability and I broke down his performance against inferior competition as a freshman, but noted his ability to throw was good enough to make it big and he did, becoming the first sophomore to win the coveted Heisman.
Congrats to both Tom and Tim, America's Best QB's 2007!!

Tebow is America's Best College Football Player

The Heisman Trophy will be presented in a couple of weeks and the first sophomore in the trophy's history will win the coveted award as the nation's best football player. Tim Tebow was a man of a boy coming out of high school last year as he subbed in for Chris Leak quite regularly to pick up a third down or rush for a touchdown and even jump shoot a touchdown pass when needed. He was "Superman" in his freshman year, but could he run the show full time? I wrote an article at AmericasBestQB.com this spring when that question was swirling and noted that when he did get some playing time in a blowout victory over a small school, he proved to me that he had enough passing skill to be "thee" guy.
His team has lost three games this year and that does not usually mean you carry home the Heisman hardware at the end of the season, but with all of his TD's this year on the ground and through the air, there is really no one that can stand up to his weekly heroics.
Chase Daniel has come to national attention with his Mizzou Tigers knocking of Kansas and playing for the Big 12 title against Oklahoma, but no one really knows about this kid other than the stat sheet and box score. Tim Tebow has been on national television countless times for all voters to see. Colt Brennan at Hawaii just guided his team to an undefeated season and broke the NCAA record for TD's. He also missed three games this season and their biggest win was against Boise State, which doesn't bode well for garnering Heisman votes, nor does playing a half-dozen time zones away from America's spotlight.
Darren McFadden is the runner-up this year. He is such a talented runner that the Razorbacks made him their Tim Tebow and let him take the direct shotgun snap and run wild. He even threw a few passes in the upset over LSU on Thanksgiving!
It was a crying shame for Oregon and Dennis Dixon that his knee was injured. Their season and his Heisman chances buckled at the same time. Because Oregon was at the top of the rankings, if he stayed healthy and they continued to win, he would have been the runaway winner, but those "if"s" didn't happen and Tim Tebow is the best football player in the nation regardless of age. College football has not seen a runner/passer of his kind ever and he deserves the award this year!

Brady Bests Manning

Tom Brady took more of a beating against the Colts than he had in all eight games combined, but he and his Patriot teammates persevered until the final gun and came up victors. Manning had the game in hand, but had the ball stripped out of his hand at the wrong time and gave New England the final chance it needed to put the game away. These two teams are the best in the league, but if Dallas is hot at the right moment, they will compete from the NFC side.
I like both of these QB's and they are the best in the entire league, followed closely by Big Ben and Tony Romo and they are probably the four best teams in the NFL right now. As I have always said, "It's always about the QB".

Clash of the "Titans"

The Titans may be in Tennessee, but the true titans of the NFL will lock up next Sunday in Indianapolis as both the Colts and Patriots had easy wins to remain unbeaten and set up last season's rematch of the AFC title game.
I wrote on AmericasBestQB.com back in the spring as soon as the Patriots acquired Randy Moss that they would win the Super Bowl. As they rip through their opponents each and every week, making it look like child's play, it seems like a pretty good prediction, but the Colts are steamrolling most of their challengers as well.
Like the title game, this will be a home game for Indy and is probably the biggest reason they were able to advance to the Super Bowl. Right now New England looks invincible and everything is clicking unbelievably well. I still am not ready to say that Tom Brady (30 TD's at the half way point) and his comrades will match the '72 Dolphins undefeated season, but I think they will keep it going at least this coming Sunday. They are playing with motivation to prove that the cheating scandal didn't have much to do with how good they really are and that will be enough in this regular season matchup to get the W.

How about Vinny?

Tom Brady is being Tom Brady and Peyton is being Peyton, which is to say they are playing fabulously well as expected, but how about Vinny Testaverde? Vinny played a little bit in the preseason with the Patriots, but hadn't picked up a football since being released.
Vinny was my teammate in 1990 and 1991 with the Buccaneers. He was a great athlete then and is proving that he is still pretty great nearing his 44th birthday. Signing with a team he has never been on and starting the same week is amazing enough, but going out and winning the game handily is quite the feat. Congrats Mr. Testaverde!