Let the Tim Tebow Era begin in the 2010 NFL Season
They can leave Kyle Orton in the gutter for all I care.
The Tim Tebow era should begin in Colorado as soon as the 2010 NFL football season starts. Tebow, the 25th pick in the NFL draft, is ready for the shots, both on the football field and in the locker room.
The two-time national champion from Florida said he couldn’t wait for the hard hits. Tim Tebow is fresh from putting his signature on two contracts, one of them a five-year deal to play for the Denver Broncos and the other a multiyear deal to serve as a pitchman for Jockey underwear.
“A few people have said a few things to me about it,” Tim Tebow said with a hearty chuckle. “Actually, Coach Josh McDaniels was the first one to say something to me. But, you know, I’m sure I’ll get some (more) of it, but it’s all in good fun.”
“I told him they passed on me for him,” McDaniels cracked. “I turned it down.”
Tebow said it felt good to work up a sweat again during the one-hour workout at Dove Valley but what he was really looking forward to was getting hit again. Tebow will get a taste of NFL hitting early on because the coaches are eager to see if they can have him run the ball like he did in college.
“It may be a negative of mine, that I look forward to that and I’m a quarterback, so you kind of have to stay calm,” Tebow said. “But it is fun once Sunday gets out here and everybody is hitting. I’ll get excited too.
If Tebow can do it, the Broncos could use a healthy dose this season of the wildcat, the new version of the old-fashioned single-wing employed by several NFL teams, notably the Miami Dolphins. In Denver, they call it the Wild Horse, and Tebow might even throw out of the funky formations.
McDaniels said he’s never used a quarterback rotation before but would give it a shot if Tebow is up to the task.
“Certainly, people have speculated about how we may or may not use him in those roles, but since we haven’t really done any of it in pads, I haven’t had the opportunity to evaluate what that may do for our team,” McDaniels said. “… There’s going to be some things that he can obviously do that the other two can’t in that regard. How much we do or don’t do will depend on how productive we are at it.”
At any rate, McDaniels appreciates Tebow’s toughness.
“I think that’s part of his demeanor. I think that is also part of what he brings to your football team,” McDaniels said. “I think that may be a little unique in terms of the contact part of it.”
Tebow is generating the kind of buzz that John Elway did during his rookie season in 1983. Tebow isn’t nearly as polished as Elway was coming out of Stanford but it sure is nice to have football fans in Denver excited over a quarterback again.
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