The problem i was Tebow’s mechanics, they just did not lend themselves to being an accurate quarterback. But that has radically changed since this summer. Go do a Youtube search of “Tim Tebow Trent Dilfer” Dilfer did a special report on Tebow’s workout since being released by the Pats.
Tebow has been spending months working with Tom House, one the best throwing mechanics coaches in sports. He has spent 10 hours a day, six days a week working on adjusting his throwing motion and his footwork. He puts in over 100,000 reps a day. His mechanic doesn’t even bare a resemblance of his former self. He now throws the ball with zip and accuracy.
Dilfer evaluated Tim Tebow 2.0 and projected him to be a very good starting NFL QB. Now how does that translate when the bullets actually start flying??? Who knows. But given his ability to win and make plays in the clutch (unlike Peyton Manning), I think NFL teams would be foolish not the give him another look.
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The problems went deeper than that. From an ESPN magazine article on Tebow from May 2013:
Certainly not about a QB whose ability makes him a third-stringer, tops, and not just because of his well-chronicled throwing issues. More troubling for potential employers is that Tebow struggled badly with the mental side of the game, according to a league source. At age 7, he was diagnosed with dyslexia, a learning disability that affects how he reads and processes information, such as a playbook or game plan. Tebow won a Heisman Trophy and two BCS titles and graduated from Florida with a 3.7 GPA. But he scored a below-average (for QBs) 22 on his Wonderlic test. As a kinesthetic learner, Tebow absorbs information better through using flash cards and hands-on repetitive experience than the traditional method of memorizing diagrams, notes and Polaroids from a playbook. That doesn't mean Tebow isn't smart or that he couldn't develop into a brilliant, quick-thinking quarterback. It just hasn't happened yet.
When the Broncos defense was on the field, offensive coaches would often tell Tebow the first series of plays they wanted to run when the team got the ball back. Tebow would nod, and they'd separate. And then, invariably, a short while later he'd ask for the information again. Sometimes this ritual would repeat right up until Tebow had to duck into the huddle and call the play. As a result, despite starting only 11 games in 2011, Tebow was flagged for delay of game an NFL-high seven times. Worse still was the fact that, according to scouts, Tebow almost never audibled because he struggled to quickly and properly read defenses. And of all the deadly sins Tebow committed against quarterbacking, this was the worst: lacking the self-awareness to recognize and fix these shortcomings. Maybe the most shocking part of Tebowmania isn't that he has been cast out of the NFL after just three years but that he lasted as long as he did.
Tebow may well has worked hard on his mechanics. But according to this, that wasn't his major failing as a quarterback and Tebow has refused to recognize that.