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#203 - Was Tim Tebow Blackballed by the NFL? The Conspiracy No One Talks About! · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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  Tim Tebow was just on the flagrant podcast with Andrew Schultz and his posse
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  yesterday. It was released.
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  It was very good, the whole thing. There was a lot of moments that would make
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  you tear up when you're listening to it, and you just get a lot of gems from Tim Tebow all the time.
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  He is a man of great wisdom and purity, wholesomeness, a good guy all around.
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  We're going to take a look at this, something that he said that Andrew brings
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  up to him, like when you, when you were in college, your first year,
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  you weren't starting immediately.
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  And how did you cope with, how did you deal with, you want to be on the field,
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  but the guy ahead of you is out there.
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  And maybe you're like this, maybe for you, you're a person that is like this as well.
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  You want a position in life, but someone else is ahead of you.
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  Tim Tebow dropped some very good wisdom that might help you. It helped me.
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  It helps me definitely change your mindset.
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  And lastly, before we end today, we're going to get into why I believe if Tim
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  Tebow was not blackballed in the NFL, he would have been the greatest quarterback in NFL history.
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  But we'll get to that at the end. All right, here's Tim Tebow when Andrew Schultz
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  brings to him that question.
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  Okay, so first year, I want to just talk really first year.
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  When you were the backup the first year, like you seem like a team guy, right?
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  I imagine like you want to root for the other players on the team.
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  But you're also someone who believes in yourself and ambitious, competitive.
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  How do you manage that? Like what if, were there moments where you're like,
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  yeah, I think I should start. It's a really good question. And the answer is
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  yes. And the answer is that it's very hard.
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  And then I will also, and I still have to do this. I have to work on,
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  like, I would try to show up with the mindset of like, I'm competing with Chris,
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  but also for him as a team. What do you mean? What do you mean for him?
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  That I'm on his team and he's on the same team I'm on.
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  Like when I get to go in the game, I'm trying to do good for him.
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  So he gets to come back on the field, right? We're competing for each other.
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  Like in practice, you're competing against sometimes.
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  But I think average competitors, and I mean this more in a mindset, not talent.
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  Average competitors want to beat someone when they're weaker.
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  Elite competitors want to beat people at their best.
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  And I would challenge myself. No, I want him to do good. I just want to do better. Are you?
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  And I think also to answer your question, I would try to show what the mindset
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  and the kind of the redoing of my mind every day to say like,
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  no, I'm going to root for him. I'm going to praise him.
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  I'm going to encourage him. I'm going to want the best for him.
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  Am I going to want to do great? Yes. But I'm going to choose to root for him.
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  But it's a choice. It's a choice. That's the thing.
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  It's not always emotion. Your emotions and our pride and my ego and all of that,
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  it can get to you. And if we're not fighting.
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  Okay. So right there, that is some great wisdom and just something that anybody
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  can take into their life.
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  I don't know about you, But me personally I have to.
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  Squelch or squash the voices in my head that want bad for people that are out there.
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  And that's showing you my soul, my heart, that I don't immediately want the
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  best for everyone because it's jealousy.
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  I want something that they have.
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  I want to be in that spot that they're in.
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  And Tim Tebow, he gives a perfect example.
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  Him coming into college, the starting quarterback, I think his name was Chris
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  Leak, and Tebow had the mindset, and he had to force himself to have that mindset,
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  that choice, that I'm going to root for Chris.
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  When he's out on the field, I'm rooting for him. When I go out on the field
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  to do my plays, my utility plays, I'm going to be doing the best I can to put
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  him in a good spot for winning.
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  And I think that is, what he said was so incredible that the greatest people
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  want to beat people at their best.
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  You don't want to just win against somebody when they're in a terrible spot.
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  When Michael Jordan has the flu and he can't go out there in game seven,
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  you want to beat him then. You want to beat him when he's at his prime.
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  And I think that's the difference between great athletes, great players, and just mediocre.
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  Maybe guys that have good talent, but don't have a fiery mindset like Tim Tebow.
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  He got, and we're going to move a little bit past this because we're going to
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  look at the next clip, which was talking about, Tebow, he brings up that people
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  will say to him, what was it like playing for the Jets? You went to New York, big time, baby.
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  And he doesn't really know.
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  And this has been just completely whitewashed of NFL history that went right under our noses.
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  And I think a lot of people were okay with it because they didn't want to deal
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  with the reality of what was Tebow mania.
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  This is like over a decade later that I'm talking about this.
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  When we were in the thick of it, Tim Tebow, I'm just going to lay it out for
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  you right now. What went down with this man?
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  He went into the NFL, a first round draft pick. He wasn't just a sixth rounder
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  like Tom Brady or, you know, what's his purdy? I forget his name.
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  I already forgot his name.
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  Purdy, the guy for the 49ers that just a first round draft pick. So he has credentials.
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  He has pedigree, you know, and he goes out there his second year in the league.
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  And takes a team that was 1-4, 1-4, not a good football team.
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  He takes them to the playoffs, wins game, extremely unconventionally,
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  terrible stats, terrible stats, but he wins, gets into the playoffs,
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  beats the Pittsburgh Steelers in a playoff game.
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  And this was an extremely good Steelers team.
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  This wasn't just a bad team. Ben Roethlisberger, they had an incredible defense.
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  He beats them in a playoff game. Then, the next game, his second year in the
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  league, first year starter, his second game in a divisional playoff game,
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  he loses to Tom Brady in his prime.
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  Which, I mean, you can say Tom Brady, I don't know if he ever went out of his
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  prime, but, I mean, he was definitely in his prime at this time.
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  And he got destroyed, got killed, murdered by Tom Brady in the playoffs,
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  the divisional round, that next game.
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  He was a first-year starter, and then Tim Tebow never saw the NFL field again.
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  He never saw it again. As a starter, as a starting quarterback, he never saw it again.
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  And if you, if someone looked at Pat and you didn't have just blinders on and
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  you weren't just, because that was the thing about Tebow.
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  He was so polarizing that people either loved him or hate him.
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  They were immediately either wanting him to lose, wishing the worst for him,
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  or they had blinders on and they wanted him to win at all costs.
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  They wanted, because he represented Jesus Christ more than anyone has ever,
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  like on his sleeve represented Jesus Christ.
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  And I think that is why there was a coordinated attack by the NFL conspiracy that happened.
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  That's just my point of view. That's what I believe actually happened.
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  They did not want this part of the league.
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  Let's hear what Tim Tebow says when he brings up about, he kind of sums it up
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  a little bit about his career in just a few short sentences.
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  It's funny. People are like, what was it like playing for the Jets?
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  And I'm like, I don't know. I didn't play for him. I just stood there for him.
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  So this actually is a, I don't know if this is football, but you got no second,
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  third place votes for the Heisman.
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  NFL, I felt like you won a playoff game. I think it was your first year starting. Yeah.
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  And then Elway comes in. He wants Manning, whatever. Do you feel like there's
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  a level- A good choice for him. No. Pretty dang good.
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  Good choice. They did win the Super Bowl, and I think Peyton Manning's one of
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  the all-time greats, but they kind of won it with him as a bus driver a little
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  bit, which I feel you could have done. Do you just in general feel like maybe-
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  Thank you for the kindness.
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  Yeah, which- Give me that call a bus. Yeah, I get the very- I'm going to insult
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  everybody. I know. Do you feel like there's- So-
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  And this just like falls from the sky of Peyton Manning, who's been on the Colts for all these years.
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  There was a lot going into it, but it just falls into the lap of John Elway
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  to have an excuse to get Tebow out of there.
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  This just happens in the offseason after Tebow just took this one and four Broncos
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  team to the playoffs, wins the playoff game. And he never see it.
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  It was very convenient.
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  That's all I will say. and then he goes to the Jets. I think he made a bad mistake.
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  Hindsight is always 20-20, Monday morning quarterbacking, but I think he should
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  have went to the Jags, you know, but I think they would have done the same thing
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  to him. It wouldn't have mattered.
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  He was a first-round draft pick, which, like, this was a guy that won,
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  like, arguably the greatest college football in NFL history.
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  Greatest quarterback in college football history.
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  He goes into the NFL, and it was, I just believe there was some,
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  there was an influence of just darkness that wanted to like stop light,
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  like this much light of being this much of a person that just is bold for his faith.
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  There's people out there that are bold for their faith, that they talk about
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  God, they talk about Jesus, but there was a difference with Tim Tebow.
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  There was a difference with him because people would feel uncomfortable.
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  You feel uncomfortable because of this pedestal that we have this guy on because
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  he represents Christ so strongly.
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  And we can always look back and say, oh, things just happened that they went
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  perfectly to somehow get him and scoot him out under the rug,
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  out of the league because he went to the Jets, didn't see the field ever.
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  Mark Sanchez has a terrible season. The Jets are terrible. Tebow doesn't even see the field at all.
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  And then a few other, he goes to the Patriots, he goes to the Eagles,
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  and it's all just giving a little crumbs to people just to say,
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  oh, we weren't colluding that much to have him removed. We weren't colluding that much.
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  But it's undeniable what they did to him when you really look back at it.
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  I know he had terrible stats, but he won.
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  He won. And if we're going to be a person that like thinks championships,
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  thinks winning is the biggest thing.
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  Is your stat line more important than how many rings you have?
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  I mean, seriously, what is more important? And I think that if Tebow was legitimately
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  given the shot and it was, it was every game, it was uncomfortable.
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  If you're an NFL coach, you want a prototypical quarterback that just stands
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  tall and just is able to throw, you know, pinpoint accurate passes.
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  It wasn't, you didn't want to have like this, like a heart attack every game
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  because you're in the last second.
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  It was a David versus Goliath every game that just, it was miraculous almost in every game.
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  And that was probably uncomfortable for coaches, for GMs, for owners.
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  But I mean, it's what he did overall
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  and what he would have brought to the game. He was ahead of his time.
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  And I, I, it was, for me, it was purely the, the Christianity he wore on his sleeve.
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  I think he would have, if he was given the opportunity, he would have been the,
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  turned out to be the greatest NFL quarterback ever.
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  If you base it purely on winning and championships and ultimately just championships,
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  I believe he would have been the greatest ever, you know, call me crazy,
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  but I'm not, I'm, I'm speaking truth.
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  That's, that's the reality of the matter, but it's a lot, it's reality.
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  A lot of people don't want to hear.
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  All right, we'll leave it at that. Follow me on X and Instagram at Brandon Fogle,
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  Stay safe out there, everyone. And I hope you have a great day.