LM Note: I’m pretty sure it’s Brady Quinn time.

I’m pretty sure it’s Brady Quinn time.

There is an episode of the Simpsons where marge ends up owing the mafia money for helping to run her pretzel truck business. At the end of the episode her competitors enlist the Yakuza to fight the mafia and they all have a big fight on the Simpson’s front lawn. Marge drags Homer inside, Homer comes in reluctantly pointing out that “the little guy” meaning one of the yakuza, hasn’t done anything yet and you know when he does something it’s going to be awesome.

When I think of the Denver Broncos I think of their head of football John Elway; a guy who is pretty much a legend. I also think of their current crop of quarterbacks. First there is Kyle Orton, a mediocre QB with a decent arm but lacking the charisma of a Jim McMahon or the sublime skill of a Peyton Manning. He was OK let’s face it. Orton was only a hair below average.

Then we look at Tim Tebow. Tim Tebow is exactly the sort of player I don’t like. I think he’s thinking if he hypes himself into a starting QB job he can stick around in the league for a while and make some money. The simple fact of the matter though is that he is a decent athlete but a terrible QB. He muffs throws that Orton could have made in his sleep.

Sleep now that’s the operative word in this missive. Sleep is something to do with the third guy in the rotation. Now I’m a notre dame fan, I’m not going to lie. Notre Dame Quarterbacks don’t usually do well in the NFL. I know this, I accept it. But there are certain players that I have championed, in my time. Jerrome Harrison for one is a player I have been a big fan of. But there is no one I think of as having untapped potential more than Brady Quinn.

2005 Brady Quinn Throws for 3919 yards and 32 touchdowns

2006 Brady Quinn Throws for 3426 yards and 37 touchdowns

2008 Tebow throws for 2747 yards and 30 touchdowns

2009 Tebow throws for 2895 yards and 21 touchdowns

Who is the better quarterback? Bearing in mind that Quarterbacks throw the ball and the wildcat sucks as a general strategy, it only worked once.

On a team with Eric Decker, Demarius Thoma, Daniel Fells and Eddie Royal why would you attach the ball… nay stick the ball to a ponderously slow and inaccurate passer who cannot get the ball to your play makers? Why not Brady Quinn?

Well some might answer Quinn sucked in Cleveland well I contend it was the Offensive line in Cleveland that sucked. Quinn had a completion percentage over 50% consistently in Cleveland, better than Tebow’s, he wasn’t bad there. He was underserved by the team around him.

I think Brady Quinn can be a really good Quarterback; maybe not Peyton Manning but definitely good. Now if John Elway wants someone who he can pass on his knowledge to, of the three of them Orton, Tebow and Quinn, I think Quinn would make the best heir to Elway’s greatness.

Denver doesn’t need a QB who can be unorthodox and use them as a stepping stone on his way to public office, on his way to building a brand. They need a quarterback who is interested in the game of football.

Tebow is not interested in Football he has his own agenda I say leave him to it, he suck’s as an NFL quarterback anyway.

I think its Brady Quinn time.

Omnipotence

Omnipotence

When doctoring someone else’s work it is very easy to assume omnipotence. I would like to think I’m good at specifically script analysis. I tend to be very attuned to the needs of a story but if I get a pleasure from the process its hearing the writer’s perspective on my comments. Because the two groups of people that I work with like this are so smart and so incredibly apt at reaching for their goals it humbles me.

One script I read this week was pretty amazing. It tapped into a lot of things going on in my life right now and after the two hours or so it took me to read it I was very pleased with the experience. That’s great when that happens. I let it ruminate in my head and made a couple of suggestions to its author with regard to character and story structure and the reply she gave me was really cool. It was like yeah those things will make the story work but the crux of it is this…

And I’m like ‘wow what she’s trying to do here is really fucking awesome’.

What she was trying to do was show character growth. She was trying to show in one instant that her heroine had become the person the audience wants her to be and knew that she could be. I have never tried to do that. I’m an amateur in a lot of ways and I see that. I didn’t go to school and I haven’t written as much as some other people.

Having started the fourth draft of my novel I think I will endeavour to do this in that text. I am going to try it with one of the characters, the most important character and a character that, up until now has been very one dimensional in an almost George Lucas-esque manner.

This is why I say when my friends and family write it inspires me to write. We all have skills and qualities we bring to the table, I am idiosyncratic. I don’t like to let words like nice or things slip bye when I can be specific, I know that that is laziness. I can’t spell. I work in fits and when those fits are over I have a tough time sifting through the mess to bring out anything workable.

I am messy, but I am messy like a hurricane.

My brother and my aunt are both very deliberate. They write on intellect I write on emotion. I literally feel my way through stories. They think their way through, its very different and I admire their ability to do that. I think writing would be easier for me if I could do that.

But if I could do both I’d be omnipotent.