Longtime NFL Executive & Draft-Prep Guru Says Tim Tebow By Far The Best Prospect He's Ever Worked With

Well.......In a way



Tim Tebow - QB - Player
Longtime NFL executive and current draft-prep guru Ken Herock believes Florida QB Tim Tebow's "velocity is good enough, and so is his accuracy."
"People will have to convince me he's not a quarterback and that he won't succeed," said Herock, who calls Tebow "by far" the best prospect he's ever worked with in Combine interview preparation. Vince Lombardi used to say to win in the NFL a team needs a quarterback who is a coach on the field, rational, unflappable, and "occasionally daring, as well as a gifted passer." It's the latter which remains in question for Tebow. January 23
Source: ESPN.com

wait a sec, let me get this straight

this mans was hired to improve tebows draft stock and he tells the media tebow is the best ever

umm...what else is he supose to say?

I just love how the same people that laud Tebow knowing full well he has a very flawed passing technique were hypercritical of Vince Young.

The Difference Being

timbo41 said:

I just love how the same people that laud Tebow knowing full well he has a very flawed passing technique were hypercritical of Vince Young.

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Young's stupid, Tebow isn't!:toast:

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http://www.islandpacket.com/2010/03/06/1162325/tebow-shows-hes-willing-to-work.html

Tebow shows he's willing to work for shot at QB in NFL


By ED STORIN
storapse@aol.com
Published Saturday, March 6, 2010


He won't be a first-round draft choice next month when the National Football League stages its annual picking party. He won't even be the first quarterback chosen. Some experts say he'll still be around in the third or fourth round.
But Tim Tebow, who during his fabulous run at the University of Florida was talked about as possibly the best quarterback in college football history, probably will get more TV attention than any 2010 NFL draftee. He is this year's big question mark.
You see, Tebow has a problem. Despite helping the Gators win two national championships and earning a Heisman Trophy, it is deemed that he is not a pro-style quarterback.
At Florida, Tebow was a hybrid of running back and quarterback. He did whatever it took to win. He bowled over defenses as a punishing runner, he threw old-style jump passes, he was a coach on the field and he delivered inspiring pep talks on the sidelines.
That worked in college.
The pro game is different, and the scouts say Tebow has bad form and very bad habits. They insist his windmill throwing motion is a sack waiting to happen.
Tebow's flaws were exposed in the postseason Senior Bowl, a game more pro-styled than college. He fumbled twice, he rushed for only four yards and had only 50 yards passing in 12 attempts.
Was Tebow discouraged? No way. It made him more determined to succeed than ever.
In acknowledging his shortcomings, Tebow has sought help in trying to improve his mechanics. At the Senior Bowl, it was Miami Dolphins quarterbacks coach David Lee, who as a Dallas coach, successfully changed Tony Romo's throwing motion in 2003.
"I've learned a lot from Coach Lee," Tebow said last week at the NFL Combine workouts in Indianapolis. "We worked a lot on different drops, on coming out of play-actions, adjustments in plays they had.
"It's not necessarily changing my whole motion, just the way I'm holding the ball higher, not dropping it, not getting that loop in my release."
Since the Senior Bowl, Tebow has moved on to seek advice to improve his mechanics from a group of former coaches, offensive coordinators and quarterback coaches.
Tebow was in Tampa working out at a high school field Thursday with ex-Buccaneers coach Jon Gruden. According to the St. Petersburg Times, Tebow has shed the long windup, holding the ball high by his ear. He was fairly accurate despite being a little too deliberate.
"He has made great progress with his stroke," Gruden said. "He is the kind of guy who can do just about anything in life. He's a great person and a heck of a quarterback. I think he is going to be a great success."
When asked if Tebow should be drafted, Gruden said: "I think he is going to be a work in progress. People are doubting him right now, and I think that will make him even better, give him motivation."
Baltimore Ravens QB coach Jim Zorn says: "Somebody is going to get a young man that is really going to work hard to be successful."
The question is: who's willing to take a chance on him?
I'm guessing that there is at least one coach out there with the patience to give Tebow a fair opportunity at QB and/or the vision to see that he has other talents to fall back on.

Tim Tebow defends Urban Meyer, breaks record for using word "blessing"

Posted by Mike Florio on February 28, 2010 3:45 PM ET


It's fitting, we suppose, that with the retirement of one NFL quarterback whom we think might be using his religious views as a not-so-subtle way to put himself above the rest of us comes the arrival of another NFL quarterback who is even more over the top with the notion that he was in some way "chosen" -- and thus is in every way "better."

Before I go any farther here, I need to set the record straight. My position on people who are too obvious regarding their beliefs is not anti-Christian. I am a Christian. I go to church every Sunday. I have 12 years of Catholic education. And I personally believe that the likelihood that this planet of ours was created and populated with plants and animals by accident is even slimmer than the chances of dropping a bowl full of eggs, flour, and sugar and having it land as a five-tiered wedding cake.

But I'm naturally skeptical, by virtue of 12 years of Catholic education and many more of regular church attendance, of anyone who wears these beliefs on his or her sleeve.

Or, as the case may be, on the black strips under his eyes.

I was going to leave it all alone until Tebow broke out the word blessing multiple times during a short interview on NFL Network, including a response to his critics that sounded like a machine gun that fires not bullets but "blessings."

We get it, Tim. You're blessed. More so than the rest of us. If we get to Heaven, we can watch you play quarterback against the All-Hell defense.

Earlier today, I dropped a link to Matthew 6:5-8 when discussing Tebow. Here's the text of it, for those of you who are interested: "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him."

I don't think that verse ever appeared on Tebow's eye strips.

Meanwhile, Tebow offered during the NFLN interview a strident defense of Florida coach Urban Meyer, claiming that players who come from the Gator program "know football," and that Meyer and his staff teach schemes and concepts that apply to the next level. "When our guys go to the next level," Tebow said, "they know what they're talking about."

Of course, the issue isn't Tebow's ability to read or understand an NFL playbook. It's his ability to properly throw the ball. And though Tebow tried to downplay the change to his throwing motion by saying that he's not really changing his throwing motion, if it wasn't such a huge problem he would have been doing everything they wanted him to do at the Scouting Combine, instead of merely talking about what a blessing it will be to do everything that they want him to do at his Pro Day workout next month.

By pointing these things out, I don't "hate" Tebow. He was a great college football player, arguably one of the best ever. But I'm skeptical because his behavior falls into the category of Matthew 6:5-8 that I've been taught to avoid, and because I wonder whether his purpose isn't to spread the Good News but to cultivate and maintain an image that will serve separate interests.

The easy thing to do in this case would be to parrot the universal praise for Tebow. The harder task is to look past the facade, and to question whether this guy is as good as advertised -- or whether he's too good to be true.

UPDATE: Here's the video. And here's the key quote. "Well, I have been truly blessed. And the past four years have been a blessing to me. My whole career has been a blessing. I've truly been blessed. . . . So I just look at all the criticism . . . as another blessing."


http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/02/28/tim-tebow-defends-urban-meyer-breaks-record-for-using-word-blessing/

Team where Tebow most likely to end if combine rates him a franchise QB.

Teams that could use Tim Tebow to step into their #1
QB spot immediately with current starter he would replace in parenthesis's:
1, Oakland (JaMarcus Russell - Charlie Frye)
2. Carolina (Matt Moore)
3. Buffalo (Ryan Fitzpatrick)
4. Tampa Bay (Josh Freeman)
5. San Francisco (Alex Smith)
6. St Louis (Keith Null)
7, Cleveland (Derek Anderson)
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Teams where he could fight for starting job in camp and starter he would have to beat out.
8. Jacksonville (David Garrard)
9. Minnesota (assuming Brett Farve hangs em up - Tavaris Jackson if Brett does retire which is likely)
10. Arizona (Matt Lienart)
11. Denver (long shot he would beat out Kyle Orton but who knows if Broncos play poorly early)
12. Washington Redskins (Jason Campbell - who knows with Snyder's checkbook)
13. Seattle Seahawks - long shot (Matt Hasselback and Seneca Wallace)
This is off the top of my head so there may be some others.

I left off Detroit because of their commitment already made to Drew Stanton and Chicago's investment in Jay Cutler.

Tebow is unlikely to end up with Detroit or Chicago in any case.

Teams not in market for a QB with their #1 pick in no particular order:

1. Colts
2. Saints
3. Chargers
4. Pats
5. Steelers (assuming Big Ben not in real trouble, Tebow has similar size as Big Ben)
6. Ravens
7. Jets
8. Packers
9. Giants
10. Falcons
11. Dolphins (Chad Henne won the job)
12. Bengals (Carson Palmer hanging on)
13. Texans
14. Titans (Vince Young will be given at least 2 years now that he has the job)
15. Chiefs (committed to Matt Cassel)
16. Cowboys
17. Eagles (Donavan has at least one probably two more chances to get back to SB).

wil.

10/23/2011:

2:44 Denver Broncos DEN TD
Tim Tebow passed to Demaryius Thomas down the middle for 5 yard gain
6 - 15


Touchdown Denver...