Plenty of you have complained about the number of Tim Tebow stories on the site. The traffic generated by each story suggests a different sentiment.
Though we won’t be flooding the site (some of you are saying, “Aren’t you already?”) with tales of Tebow, we will continue to follow the same principle that has guided us since November 1, 2001: If it’s interesting to us, we’ll assume it’ll be interesting to you.
And here’s something interesting we’ve heard recently regarding Tebow. A league source with extensive experience regarding the way teams think and operate told me Friday that he’s convinced someone will jump on Tebow late in round one or early in round two for the opportunity to turn Tebow into a great quarterback.
“Someone will want to be the guy who turned Tebow into a star,” the source said. “There’s nothing to lose. Everyone expects him to struggle.”
That’s precisely why Packers coach Mike McCarthy recently told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he’d “love the opportunity to develop him.”
It’s a twist on the more usual situation in which a highly-talented player has off-field issues or on-field attitudes that undermine his performance. Every coach believes that he’s the coach to get through to the guy and change him. Thus, every coach will now believe that he’s the coach to mold Tebow’s talent and intangibles into greatness.
It also suggests to us that head coaches with an offensive background will be more likely to take Tebow, since those coaches will be in a better position to roll up their sleeves and become personally involved with the development of the player. One notable exception would be Cleveland, where the coach, Eric Mangini, has a defensive background but the guy calling the shots, Mike Holmgren, knows a thing or two about taking a raw talent and transforming him into a Hall of Famer.
Our best guess at this point is that a team that truly covets him will jump into the bottom of round one to get him, possibly before the team that currently employs Holmgren’s greatest triumph gets a chance to give Tebow a year to learn from him directly.
I expect Favre to change his name to Tebow here soon…He is GOT to tired of Tim getting all the press in the offseason. The nerve of Timothy.
we will continue to follow the same principle that has guided us since November 1, 2001: If it’s interesting to us, we’ll assume it’ll be interesting to you.
I have never understood the people that bitch about this. If you aren’t interested, don’t click the link and don’t leave a gripe. Less traffic about a subject, fewer stories.
When you look down the draft card you will see #1 in BIG Heart, #1 in Competitive Spirit and #1 Team Leader is the one and only TIM TEBOW.
And Tebow haters begin with your venom!
This makes total sense. Love him or hate him, all this guy ever did in College Football was win. He was, arguably, one of the best College players EVER, and someone will take a shot at him.
He has the athletic ability and intangibles and we’ll see whether that will help him convert into a pro style QB.
Tebow For Commissioner.
-That’s precisely why Packers coach Mike McCarthy recently told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he’d “love the opportunity to develop him.”-
He already did that with Brian Brohm. Learn from your mistakes.
As with the Favre story the last few years, we are sick of the Tebow story because they consist of constantly rehashing old news. Just because someone different says the same thing that has basically been said by a dozen others does not make it interesting or newsworthy. At least not to many of us. But that has been a trend with PFT over the last couple of years. I used to read every story because they were all interesting, now I just skim and look for the occasionally interesting story.
this headline is right on, as long as we ambiguously define ‘early’ to mean the first half of the entire draft.
Why would the Browns, with one of the elite left tackles in the the game (Joe Thomas), want a left handed QB?
There would be no guarentee that Thomas could move to the right side, and if he did that he would be as effective there as on the left.
“It’s a twist on the more usual situation in which a highly-talented player has off-field issues or on-field attitudes that undermine his performance. Every coach believes that he’s the coach to get through to the guy and change him.”
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Not so fast on this one Mikey. Not every Coach.
Apparently McDaniels didn’t feel this way about Cutler & Marshall.
Hey, let the Bengals take him, they can develop him into a drug-using, DUI-getting, child-molesting menace to society.
I already hate this kid more than Peyton Manning. Advertisers will flock to his virgin image, women will go the games with giant “Take ME Tebow” signs and before you know it, we’ll be up to the ying yang in churchy-this and churchy-that.
Get a good team like the Patriots let this guy sit behind Brady for 3 years and you have yourself a quality leader for the future. http://www.fantasyfootballstarters.com
Plus he could have good fantasy value with all the rushing attempts he will get early in his career.
I am a better passer than Tim Tebow, and it’s NOT EVEN CLOSE.
This is not what you want in an NFL QB.
Winston Wolfe says:
March 27, 2010 10:17 AM
When you look down the draft card you will see #1 in BIG Heart, #1 in Competitive Spirit and #1 Team Leader is the one and only TIM TEBOW.
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Sure, and #6,485,263 in actual skills.
PFT is under pressure from NBC to appear to be in front of every angle on every story. PFT still has to fill its pages with ‘new’ stories on old topics. MEnwhile, PFT demonstrates its investigative inemptness by failing to break any ‘new’ story on the specific cause of the 49ers firing of its GM. Surely there are rumors out there regarding the ‘personal issues’ that led to his dismissal,, but Florio only posts rumors about players, not management.
Plenty of you have complained about the number of stories on the site. The traffic generated by each story suggests a different sentiment.
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What BS. People here would comment if you posted what you had for breakfast.
Besides, the reason they post has nothing to do with the newsworthiness of the story- it’s the silly little pieces of pure conjecture that you make up-
“Our best guess at this point is that a team that truly covets him will jump into the bottom of round one to get him, possibly before the team that currently employs Holmgren’s greatest triumph gets a chance to give Tebow a year to learn from him directly.”
-Which generate the hits, because you know how to craft your wild ass guesses so that each one hits a particular fan base and sets off the comments.
Your site has become a cynical, manipulative, contrived haven for tabloid sports journalism, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
i think tebow is a loser. i wouldnt want that p^&ssy on my team, but its true. if pat white can go in round 2, so can tebow.
I think Shannahan may take a chance with Tebow. Bradford will be gone at #4 we take Okung and in round 2 maybe Tebow give Campbell 2 years under Shanny and see what he can do and you can develop Tebow.
Mad Campah has a point, and me making this comment feeds into exactly what benefits Florio.
If you think the story is stupid do not comment. Even a negative one. 500 comments telling Florio what a putz he is is the same as 500 comments telling him he is a genious. Its 500 page hits he can take to the advertisers or NBC.
Warloxx is even more on target then Mad Campah. We should all read that second comment in this section and take it to heart. It will make this site better because we will stop rewarding Florio for posting crap stories designed simply to generate comments and thus page hits.
While Mike as an offensive-minded coach with a thriving QB school is undoubtedly slavering over just being in the same room with a young draftable QB who’s already established himself as having tremendous – unchallenged -attitude, character, athleticism, leadership skills and raw talent, i.e., huge overall potential, he’d never do it – it would be a shortsighted, self-indulgent decision, even if it were his, which it’s not.
No better evidence of that than this last season, when TT made the decisions, as is his job, and all Mike could do was lobby, after a long, tough year, for Ted to lock up some “professional buffers”, before the draft, e.g., Tauscher, Clifton, etc. Green Bay has more critical needs than acquiring yet another “qb of the future”, especially one for whom it may take longer to reach the stage of relatively consistency. Maybe he’ll come out firing on all cylinders, but you don’t know. GB cannot squander any pick this year on a QB-to-be-developed-at-a-later-date, given the team’s circumstances.
Read somebody’s comment recently, seeking support for the theory that Tebow is “likely” to go to GB, because of how they snatched up AR in 2005 when he dropped to #24. This is Swiss cheese reasoning -here’s my own version of Swiss cheese: 1) “Snatching up” Rodgers was not as impulsive as it might have appeared that day. Favre was traded in 2008; I believe “what’re we gonna do after BF” may have been in the Pack’s mind as far back as 2000. 2) Rodgers did not come with all the fussy studied negatives surrounding his game.
I’d love to see Tebow come out – somewhere – and knock everybody dead with his prowess – the League can allways use another super QB, as can the press and the fans, but I think it’s gonna be awhile. GB just doesn’t have the time.
Hi hotchick! Don’t misunderstand -I haven’t heard anyone use the term “putz” in so long! It’s such a good, descriptive word! Are you by any chance from Wisconsin? (I am)
I got me one of the newer computers with a ‘delete’ button and a back button and stuff so nowadays I can actually pick and choose what I want to read or if I want to read it all the way to the end. It’s pretty cool. I just got it in 1987.
Tebow is NOT a loser – no one who has achieved what he already has in his young life, can be termed a loser, whether or not he makes it in the NFL.
If Satan (I mean Ted Thompson) drafts Tim Tebow at #23, he along with McCarthy should be fired immediately.
If I were Ted Thompson (and I thank every day I am not) I take the biggest, baddest O-Tackle still on the draft board with our #1 pick (seeing as that both of our Tackles are 33 years old and coming off injuries) !!! Or the best safety or OLB available.
But of course that would constitute filling an actual “need” and protecting our franchise QB, so naturally that ensures Tebow will land in Green Bay. How freakin’ stooooopid is that ????
I would almost bet my house that if Tebow’s religious beliefs were not up front and open, he would not be hated like this. I dont get the world anymore, but whatever. He is a football player, and to be honest, he has been a stellar one in college. I wouldnt mind spending a low second to a third on this guy.
And who cares what he believes in, can he play football, thats the question.
The problem I have is not with the number of Tebow stories, it was with your inability to stop attacking his religious beliefs in previous articles. You managed to get through this one without doing so, though, so kudos to you.
cddbrowns says:
March 27, 2010 12:21 PM
I would almost bet my house that if Tebow’s religious beliefs were not up front and open, he would not be hated like this. I dont get the world anymore,
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I think you’re right, and I think it is a result of a sort of fatigue people are feeling. The new Christianity is overexposed in the media and in politics. People are growing increasingly tired of religious fundamentalism, just like in the fifties. America is again having an Elmer Gantry moment.
i do not mean this comment as racist at all but i believe if tim tebow was black he would be picked in the first five choices. just sayin….
bluestree says: March 27, 2010 12:49 PM People are growing increasingly tired of religious fundamentalism
I believe you are absolutely right, and to be honest, others are bringing in all kinds of attention as well, not just Tebow, but they are excused for it. Players popping drug tests, Ben raping everyone this side of the Mississippi, players drunk driving…….yet……you see where I am going with this.
It Tebow does go to Green Bay…
Geez, you gotta figure Aaron Rogers will do a bit of a freak out.
He will be a top 15 pick.
Oh, Mike…you and your “league source with extensive experience” seem to have forgotten how the draft works. When you use a draft pick to select a player…you can’t use that pick anymore. THAT’S WHAT YOU’VE GOT TO LOSE! A FIRST OR SECOND ROUND DRAFT PICK!
Why must these things always be explained to you? They’re so simple.
@hotchick, mad campah, & WarLoxx….we post when we want reagrdless of the story…..so get used to it…blah blah blah……Maybe we work for Florio or maybe florio has several login names…..
Coaches are like women, they think they change or fix men.
Bluestreet- Hilarious . Who is the other guy in football that is well known for his religion? What a joke of an argument.
Tim Tebow reminds me an awful lot like a young, Steve Young. Those old enough to remember. Steve Young was a great college lefty QB about Tebow’s size (maybe a bit smaller). Young was absolutely dreadful at first in the Tampa Bay classic Pocket QB system. He flopped so badly, they gave up on him and traded him to SanFran. He landed in the right system for a mobile QB and the rest is Hall of Fame history.
Put Tebow in the right system and he will be just as great a pro as he has been at every other level. Put him in a Brady/Manning type system and he will get clobbered and fail. The right team for him is Minnesota, Washington, San Francisco, Cleveland, Arizona and maybe even Miami. The good thing is that because he is likely to go in rounds 3-4 of the draft, he will go to one of those good young teams (except Cleveland) and develop quickly in the background for 1 year. The last thing he needs is to be thrust in the spotlight as a “savior” as a first rounder. In the right system he can learn the speed and the quick reads of a mobile QB system for 1 year because those kind of offenses usually feature strong, bruising running games. After one year in such a system, I think this kid will do what he has done all of his life. Win Championships!
He is religious. So I hope he is praying that he will go to the “Right” team in round 3-4. The big money will come later. If he goes in round 1 it is likely to be the wrong situation (a team only looking for a “Wildcat” option). If he ends up in San Fran especially, I predict true greatness for him as he develops with that emerging, new young dynasty. They will only need a QB like him in 2011 to be SuperBowl bound. Singletary is creating a monster in the Bay. And Tebow is his huckleberry, I believe. And I am a Bear’s fan to boot.
For Tebows sake I sure hope he doesn’t land in Minny. Favre wouldn’t do squat to help him.He didn’t help with Aaron because of jealousy and Tim would take away way to much of Bretteny’s precious spotlight.
Bretteny once stated that it was his job to play not to coach(I guess that doesn’t include GM duties) and he did everything he could to undermine #12
As for you Morons that critcize Tebow because he has faith (I’m not as good of a Chritian as that man) go to hell. Save your venom for criminals terrorists and politicians that are trying to tell you what you have to do for health care and are turning over enforcement to the IRS that is hiring 86,000 new agents
Tebow is a religion spewing douchebag that will never be good in the NFL. Move on.
Can’t wait to see the reaction when Tebow wants to bow heads in prayer when huddling on a fourth-and-one, time running out, down a touch.
…and y’all are unreligeous leftwing liberal bedwetters… similar to muslims. Tebow won’t say it, but I will. Tebow may be accepting of your ilk & your lack of honor, but I’m not & never will be.
Now, STFU cause y’all know full well that you haters are nothing but fat ass couch potatoes that think because you watch football that you actually know what the frick you are talking about.
It’s pretty comical that every time there is an article about Tebow on this site, the same 20 or so posters spew their belief that Tebow is a loser for……………………….wait for it………………………..spewing his beliefs.
I expect that the irony is lost on those commenting, of course.
B Atkins says: March 27, 2010 4:05 PM
…and y’all are unreligeous leftwing liberal bedwetters… similar to muslims. Tebow won’t say it, but I will. Tebow may be accepting of your ilk & your lack of honor, but I’m not & never will be.
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Careful, you don’t want to draw the wrath of B Atkins or else once he is done hooking up with his own sister, he may leave the trailer and come after yours.
I “clicked on the link” to see what was being done surreptitiously to ensure he went earlier than he should.
“I would almost bet my house that if Tebow’s religious beliefs were not up front and open, he would not be hated like this.” (Be glad you said almost.)
While his whoring of his religious beliefs is ridiculously allowed it merely presents an opening for those disgusted ones to use to an advantage. The Yankees are both one of the most beloved and the most hated teams in baseball. The Cowboys used to be the same way in football. Why among the most hated? For one thing, the constant attention and praise of the sportscasters, whether it has been earned or not.
Nobody likes to have a “hero” shoved down their throats like the sports press loves to do with Tebow. This is not a pun on his religious beliefs, but it is like the sports press thinks he walks on water.
We’re “interested because we click on a link” is like saying we want to see that train crash (you know the one they always mention) you just can’t look away from. That’s why I click on a story about Teboohoohoo. I’m ready to see someone in the sports press actually admit he’s done.
And as bejua stated “this headline is right on, as long as we ambiguously define ‘early’ to mean the first half of the entire draft.”
Agreed.
This just in: Delhomme and Senaca suck.
Surely there are rumors out there regarding the ‘personal issues’ that led to his dismissal,, but Florio only posts rumors about players, not management.
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Not as interesting.
BuckeyeBengal… damn, two strikes against you… how does our dick’s taste?
btw. My sister is your Mother… now show your Uncle/Father some respect… go get me a beer, bitch!
The last thing we need in Ohio is another religious kook. It’s already bad enought that if I’m trying to have an intelligent conversation regarding religion or evolution or the like, I just hear “shut up, you’re stupid”.
Oh, I’m stupid? I’m not the one who believes in resurrection, talking snakes, and men parting seas. I do believe in the easter bunny though.
Hey C.Bass:
Seneca doesn’t suck! Holmgren could have had Hasselbach if he wanted him. Pete Carrol was trying to unload that injury prone tease. But Holmy chose/Stole Wallace instead. He sees something there, and maybe the kid is now ready blossom unless Mangenius screws him up like he did Favre in NY, Anderson and Quinn in Cleveland. Holmy did the same thing when he went to GB and then to Seattle. He picked a Favre who was dying on a bench out west and Hass, who was doing the same in GB. Holms has a knack for grabbing those dudes when everyone else has given up and he knows the QB is ready to go. He is a master at stealing young QB talent from comatose GM’s who live in the here and now.
By the way. I think Hass’ days in seattle are numbered. Carrol really wants Leinart, if he can somehow pry him from the Card’s cold dead hands.
screw fixing the offensive line. Gimme Tebow in round 1 for the packers. I think I just threw up a littler.
I wonder if any teams are considering Tebow as a short yardage specialist short term and obviously with the hope that he develops into more long term.
Bring him under center in 3rd and 1 and I think you would force the defense into some predictable looks that perhaps you can take advantage of. He would just have to prove that he could make a pass enough of the time to keep a defense honest.
He doesn’t have to sneak every time but that would be the base play that they use to get teams to stack the middle. Then the off tackle holes might be a little softer. That came out kind of gross but you get the idea.