Five Factors Driving Speculation On Tebow’s Future In The NFL Other Than Football
1) Gator Nation and everyone else
Gator Nation spreads far and wide across the globe and would support a comeback of Danny Wuerffel much less their golden boy Tim Tremendous. With a fan base this large, Tim already has more support than most anyone coming out of college. Just check the jersey sales.
So, Gator homerism drives one side of this spinning coin but what about the other? How about every Gator hater fan base out there? Lets see there is Florida State, The U, UGA, Tennessee, Bama and tack on The Ohio State University for good measure. The list goes on and on. So,right off the bat both scales are unbalanced on Tebow’s future whether you are pro or anti Gator.
2) Goody two cleats
The man is a virgin for crying out loud! He spends his spring break at orphanages and leper colonies comforting the less fortunate. His only personal foul penalty involved a Gator chomp followed by a “God Bless”. This kid is almost too good to be true. Which again draws out the masses to argue his future. One side holds him up as a shining beacon to model their kids after, while the other side is waiting for the other shoe to drop. Just waiting for the day a pic turns up on the Internet of Timmy eating kitties with maple syrup. Morality is a great way to judge a person’s character, but what the heck happened to football in all of this?
3) The Media
The Media has been riding the Timmy T. Train ever since he changed state laws in Florida to play high school football as a home schooler. The ESPN special, The Chosen One, showcased Tebow as just that before he had even chosen a D-I School. The love fest continued all through out his years at Florida and to be frank all the Tebow media overdose was too much for any non Gator to handle. Conversely, there could never be enough TT news or articles to absorb to the die hard fan. The love fest abruptly stopped the day his college career ended as even the media was looking for another angle to ride that train. Tebow turned form a college hero to a WWF heel over night. I can’t even list all the analysts and commentators that have already decided that TT will never be an NFL caliber QB. Its amazing how many expert analysts have painted themselves into a corner, no way they can pull for Timbow now. So, its safe to say even the analysts have lost their objectivity. Like it or not, the media plays a huge part on what people think. The only problem is that ‘fact’ does not drive the sports media, opinions, commercials and ratings do.
4) The Chiseled Chin
To take a quote from 30Rock, the dude looks like a cartoon pilot. Women show up in wedding dresses to autograph sessions. Dudes ask him to propose to their fiances for them, I mean what woman can turn down a proposal from Tim Tebow even if its not actually him proposing? If you check his Twitter and Facebook pages you will see the vast majority of the comments left are by his largest fan base, WOMEN. They love the guy and whats not to like? He led the NFL in jersey sales even while he was riding the pine, care to guess how many XS petite jerseys were in the mix? Not to suggest women don’t know anything about football, on the contrary, but the infatuation with his chin has nothing to do with his abilities as an NFL caliber QB. In fact, the only women that may have an issue with TT is for his anti-abortion Superbowl commercial. Fine, but again what the heck does any of this have to do with football?
5) Mechanics
Whoa! Mechanics have nothing to do with football? OK maybe not nothing, but for crying out loud way too much has been made of the kid’s mechanics. Mechanics are not the end all be all of success in the NFL. There are a lot more successful QB’s in the NFL with flaws in their throwing motion than without. I think the sport you are looking for is ballet, im pretty sure mechanics are everything in ballet. Last I checked football was a game of will and guts. Last I checked football was a game of results. Last I checked Ryan Leaf had perfect mechanics. Mechanics are an ends to a means. I don’t care if my QB is throwing with his feet if he’s scoring TD’s and winning games. I mean what is this perfect throwing motion that everyone is comparing to anyway? Joe Montana? Well, I got news for you! You don’t have to be Hall of Famer Joe Montana to be considered a success in this league.
6) Conclusion
Lets all reason together. We all have our own reasons to pull for or against Tim Tebow, but lets be objective and judge this kid’s future by what he has shown so far as an NFL QB. Tebow has started three games and by all accounts, he did well for a rookie. He is 1-2 as a starter, but in my opinion with no defense, running game or head coach, he had no business winning any games. He rallied from a 17-0 deficit to beat Houston 24-23 and he was 1 throw away from coming back again against the Chargers and just fell short of another amazing comeback. He ended with the best QB rating of any rookie this year including #1 pick Sam Bradford with an 82.1 rating. He has 125 touches for 881 yards with a combined 11 TD’s and 3 turnovers. Will Tim Tebow be a Hall of Famer? Or a bust? My guess is that he will be neither, but at this point I can only speculate on the upcoming season and I believe that Tim Tebow will be a successful starting NFL QB in 2011. I am proud to say my speculation is based on Football.
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Originally Posted by Lonestar
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