ProFootballTalk.com was at it again yesterday, this time castigating Jim Kelly for saying he would recommend Florida quarterback Tim Tebow to the Buffalo Bills.

Sure, Kelly isn’t a scout. And that’s Mike Florio’s point. “The fact that he was a quarterback doesn’t make him qualified to determine in which round another quarterback should be drafted,” Florio writes, then adding that Kelly also isn’t qualified to assess overall team needs.

I’ve said on this site before that I respect where Florio has taken his blog. He’s what every blogger shoots for. But since hitting the big time with a partnership with NBC, the success seems to have gone to his head.

First of all, in the story Florio was responding to, Kelly made a point of saying he wasn’t a scout and didn’t have any opinion on where Tebow should be drafted. He acknowledged that he hadn’t seen the quarterback do drills and was not trying to pass himself off as a scout.

A follow-up post by Florio addressed a thank you he received from a scout who said Kelly was undermining the work scouts do. That sounds like an awfully thin-skinned scout to me. Kelly was clearly – very, very clearly, in my opinion – not trying to undermine any scouts.

Kelly was asked a question by Vic Carucci at NFL.com about Tebow, one of the most highly-debated NFL draft prospects in years, and he simply said he’d be comfortable recommending him to the Bills – while specifically adding in his answer that he was in no way familiar enough with Tebow’s workouts to say where and when the team should consider taking him.

Second, PFT basically tells Kelly to keep his nose out of all of Buffalo’s business. Being a former NFL quarterback – a Hall of Fame one at that – doesn’t qualify him to make a skilled assessment of the team’s needs, Florio writes.

Sorry, Mr. Florio, but that is one of the most hypocritical statements ever made in the blogosphere. I’ve got opinions on Tebow and other NFL issues. You’ve got opinions on Tebow and other NFL issues. It’s what bloggers and to some extent NFL writers do for a living.

Kelly’s 11-year career included 101 wins as a starter and four Super Bowl appearances. I think that makes him more than qualified to offer his thoughts on a quarterback coming out of college and I think it puts him in a position to offer fairly intelligent analysis about what a team needs and doesn’t need to make it better.

If I was Buffalo owner Ralph Wilson and I had three people in a room – Me, Mike Florio and Jim Kelly – to talk with about Buffalo’s strengths and weaknesses, there’s no question I would listen to Kelly before I listened to Florio. And yes, if I was Wilson I’d probably even listen to Kelly before I listened to myself.

I continue to respect – perhaps at times even envy – where Florio has taken ProFootballTalk.com. But his site is now as often as not filled with misguided and self-righteous rants that undermine what got him to the status he has achieved. I think this is clearly one of those cases.