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ShareSo far this season, Tim Tebow has been bad, then good, then bad again, then kind of OK for a while, then amazingly, atrociously bad. In Sunday's playoff game against the Steelers, the Denver quarterback/future eight-term U.S. president entered a bizarre quantum state in which he was both great and terrible at the same time. The Broncos beat the Steelers 29-23 in overtime because Pittsburgh's top-rated defense schemed as if it were facing a six-year-old heaving a medicine ball. By treating Tebow as if he were the worst thrower in NFL history, the Steelers turned him into an NFL playoff winner.
Why the Steelers Lost to Tim Tebow
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There was nothing wrong with the Steelers' macro defensive philosophy. Dubious of Tebow's...
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