Tim Tebow wants to "just be me" at Senior Bowl

[O-town Gator]

"Coach Meyer called me last night and he said, 'Promise me one thing: Just be you and you'll be fine," Tebow said Sunday, a day before the players go through weigh-ins and their first practices in front of a few hundred NFL personnel.

"I'm just going to be me. I'm going to be excited, I'm going to be passionate, I'm going to have fun," Tebow said. "I'm going to love playing the game out there, just like I always have. Hopefully the coaching staffs and the owners and general managers will just like me."

As usual, Tebow will be the most talked about and scrutinized player on either team leading up to Saturday's game. The Senior Bowl is his first real shot at answering the oft-voiced questions about whether he can successfully run an NFL offense, or whether he will have to switch to tight end or H-back.

He's not in Mobile, Ala., to show he can play either one of those fallback positions. "I'm here to be an NFL quarterback," Tebow said."

Link: http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/draft10/news/story?id=4854855&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines

 

[O-town Gator]

More from Ben Volin: http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/gatorbytes/2010/01/25/tim-tebow-about-to-begin-the-most-important-week-of-his-life-at-the-senior-bowl/

 

[Escambia94]

It saddens me to hear that Tebow is struggling. I hope he fixes his center exchanges, wobbly passes, and low passes over the line.

 

[O-town Gator]

It saddens me to hear that Tebow is struggling. I hope he fixes his center exchanges, wobbly passes, and low passes over the line.

And naturally the media's eating this up: http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/jan/25/260130/tebow-has-chance-shine-senior-bowl/sports-colleges-gators/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tbo%2Fgators+%28TBO+%3E+Gators%29&utm_content=Twitter

Only day one, and you'd think they would cut him some slack. Morons.

(UPDATE: According to some tweets I just recieved, Tebow apparently has strep throat. Watch the trolls try and call him a pansy because of that.

Good quote from David Pollack, former UGA linebacker: "Tebow struggled day 1 of Sr. Bowl but that means nothing, he will be judged on how much improvement he shows." Nice unbiased opinion.)

 

[Leakfan12]

It saddens me to hear that Tebow is struggling. I hope he fixes his center exchanges, wobbly passes, and low passes over the line.

It pisses me off after one terrible practice, the media is jumping on it. It is just one :censored: practice, get off his :censored: back people in the media. DANG IT.

 

[O-town Gator]

According to some recent tweets from Ben Volin, Timmy looks much better today than he did yesterday - he had nailed some nice passes to Dexter McCluster and Riley Cooper. Sounds like he's doing well on his deep passes - so much for Brian Griese's claim that he doesn't have the arm strength to make in the NFL.

Way to shut the pundits up - you go, Timmy! :gator::gator:

 

[O-town Gator]

According to Robbie Andreu, he has quite the star following: http://andreu.blogs.gatorsports.com/10299/tebow-draws-a-crowd/

 

[Escambia94]

Tebow may have a great deep ball, but the short to medium passes are the bread and butter of most NFL offenses. I won't say I am on the anti-Tebow bandwagon, but I am disappointed that he wasted a year where he could have improved his mechanics and thinks he can fix it enough overnight to change the scouts' opinions. He is right--he does not need to convince all the team, he only needs to convince one. It would suck if that one and only team were not the one that would help him become a better player, such as Jacksonville taking him just as a freak show to increase attendance.

 

[O-town Gator]

Tebow may have a great deep ball, but the short to medium passes are the bread and butter of most NFL offenses. I won't say I am on the anti-Tebow bandwagon, but I am disappointed that he wasted a year where he could have improved his mechanics and thinks he can fix it enough overnight to change the scouts' opinions. He is right--he does not need to convince all the team, he only needs to convince one. It would suck if that one and only team were not the one that would help him become a better player, such as Jacksonville taking him just as a freak show to increase attendance.

He didn't have his best day on Monday, but he deserves a lot of credit for giving it a shot despite running a fever and being sick. Then again, he did play the O&B game with the flu back in '08.

As far as "wasting a year", his focus wasn't on impressing the NFL scouts - it was doing his best to help UF win championships, which was why he chose to come back and not jump to the pros after the '08 season. As far as his mechanics go, I question some of the things Scot Loeffler did with him.

Screw Todd McShay and the other so-called "experts" who don't think he has a chance. The only one who really knows Tim Tebow is Timmy himself, and if he's determined to make the 1st round he'll play like he means it. However, after only one workout it's hard to pass judgment on him at this point. There's still the Combine, Pro day and individual workouts to go before April, and he still has room to kick things up a notch.