I’m leaving my passion for Texas football at the door…

I still take McCoy. In studying up on film of Tebow, I didn’t see the same type of heart McCoy possesses. McCoys ability to make plays happen out of nothing astounds me. While Tim Tebow has some of the same ability, McCoy is dead accurate on the run most of the time, grant it a few exceptions.

I think the personnel around these guys would have a lot to do with it as well. Looking at Tebow, he had Percy Harvin, an astounding athlete. Tim Tebow didn’t really use his offense like McCoy did. McCoy worked with some great athletes, but used his whole team in offensive production, and in that, was the most accurate among the 3 quarterbacks.

McCoy is the man…Enough said.

Hook em

For the NFL? Probably McCoy, although I sure wouldn’t spend a first-round pick on any one of them.

If you can surround the guy with talent, then I’d take Bradford. I know we’re talking college team, but there is a reason QB’s don’t run in the NFL: injuries. A guy like Bradford is more likely to stay healthy than are Tebow or McCoy. If I’m deep at receiver and tailback, have a solid O-line and a decent D, then I don’t need a playmaker, I need a facilitator. Give me Bradford.

If I’ve got talented wide outs, but a suspect O-line/backs, and need to throw to win, then I’ll take Colt. That kind of accuracy, combined with more 4th quarter comebacks than Tebow and Bradford COMBINED = absolutely.

If I’m going to run the damn ball, then I’ll take Tebow. A QB/FB is a hell of a combo in short yardage, and that jump pass, while hideous, is so damn effective.

So that’s my way of coping out, I guess. But I think with 3 guys at the pinnacle of college football, who you surround them with makes all the difference.

In that case, & as they have all 3 shown, they can all 3 be effective college quarterbacks. 2 of them have even won the Heisman at the position.

I think Tebow would be the #3 choice for me. Sure he’s a great leader & makes good speeches, but who you’re leading can have a great impact on your success as a leader. Tebow just doesn’t scare me as far as his ability to pick apart a secondary, so if he’s not running an offense based on screens, shovel passes, jump passes, & handoffs to guys who run a 3.3 40-yd dash while benefitting from possibly the best defense in college, would he be that effective? He does have the worst season W/L-wise of the 3 w/ a 9-4 season his soph year.

Bradford would be my #2 choice. He may very well be my #1 choice if this were for an NFL team, but we’re talking college. He has a great arm, great pocket pressence, great accuracy, everything you want in a pocket passer. The issues that raise concern are his scrambling ability (worst of the 3), ability to throw on the run or outside the pocket, & a question of his performance when his back is against the wall against top-level competition. For as much as I can tell through a television screen, the sense I got of Bradford & his Sooners at the end of the BCS championship game was very similar to the feeling I had about them at the end of the RRR. They just didn’t seem to have the grit or determination or whatever when put up against it by a talented team determined to beat them. That may be the intangible “leadership” area where perhaps Bradford is lacking, but he still has time to grow. College sports have so much more turnover that Bradford seems to provide hit & miss opportunities. He’ll be great when you can protect him & give him good targets (last year), but when those aren’t there, how will he respond? I think we’ll find out a lot about him this year, as I am of the opinion OU will miss those 4 O-linemen & top 2 receivers more than most think. The biggest question is what is the best win Bradford has led OU to? He’s 1-1 in Dallas, 0-1 in Lubbock, 0-2 in bowls. I think I need to see him lead his team to a couple of good wins outside the state of Oklahoma this year to give any weight to the idea that he’s a top-notch leader & inspires his team.

I think for the college game Colt has to be #1. He’s very accurate, has a strong enough arm, seems to have teammates who are willing to be led by him, steps up in big situations to make big plays, and is mobile enough to both run for yardage and pass on the run if not given enough protection. He has never led a team to as many losses as Tebow has, despite the gloomy forcast & talent evaluation of last year’s team. Both Tebow & Bradford have lost bowl games. If Colt leads Texas to a bowl win this year he will become only the 2nd qb in all of college football history to lead his team to 4 bowl wins (Pat White of WVU was the first last year). He’s accurate, he’s smart, he’s mobile, he’s led his team to 3 bowl wins in 3 seasons. The only knock I’d have on him was being injury prone (missing crucial time in his first 2 years), but he’s significantly bigger than his freshman year & seemed to put that issue behind him last year. I look for Colt to outperform the other 2 by a pretty good margin this year.

They have equal leadership skills but Colt has the arm to equal Bradford and the feet to equal Tebow and he has more Heart than those two combined. I say give him the Heisman now. And give Vince his Heisman also!!! (When are they going to wait until after the final game to give the Heisman????)