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Originally Posted by sackdance
Wrong. Tebow was never given the chance to be terrible. There are a sh*tton of intangibles at the QB position and most of TT's are good. Before the season at Denver he was projected starter - then his camp was so bad the whisper was he was 4th or even 5th best QB in camp - and was only kept because they drafted him so high (in relative terms). Then he was 2nd string. Then he did an excellent job quarterbacking the Broncos.
No matter how bad Sanchez played, and he played worse than any QB in the league, Tebow was never given the chance for someone like you to call him "terrible" - because as far as his resume goes playing QB in the NFL - it's "excellent".
One start. One start in this miserable season, Tebow could have come out and gone 9/22 for 100 yds and 2 picks. And he would have earned the right for us to call him terrible. But he was denied that. All I can judge him on was what he did for Denver and Florida before that.
The whole thing pisses me off - the way Tebow was handled shows us more how bad a coach Rex Ryan is than about how good (or bad) Tebow is at QB.
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It is well known and documented that Tebow has dyslexia. It is well known that people that have dyslexia learn from phyiscally doing and not just reading.
It is difficult for him to JUST read the plays in a playbook and do them. He needs practice to walk through the motions in practice. Once he has done that he knows them as well as any QB. At FL they took the time to do that. The Jets never took the interest in working with his dyslexia.
Tebow can succeed if a coach will take the time to develop him and walk him through the plays in practice.
I don't really expect many people on this blog to consider this as minds are made up. It is easier to just repeat what they have heard and say he is garbage, trash, and cannot throw. He did do more than Manning though and threw a winning TD in overtime. Imagine that.