Jacksonville Jaguars Draft Watch: Tim Tebow to remain a Gator!

by River City Rage on Jan 11, 2009 3:35 PM EST in News Comment 10 comments

Our Long National Nightmare Ends: Tim Tebow will remain in Gainesville!

Tim Tebow will not be a Jacksonville Jaguar or join any other team in 2009. He has, thankfully, decided to stay with the Florida Gators and delay my everpresent nightmare of Tebow pre-draft hysteria for one more year. The idea of dealing with Tebow Hype for the next many months as we dealt with the myrad issues around the Jaguars would have been simply too much to bear.

This is not to say that Tebow would have been a terrible choice, were the Jaguars to pick him up in the 4th or 5th round and then developed him slowly over several seasons, then there might have been some merit. This whole concept of drafting a rookie in order to fill seats is a complete and total fallacy. Were the Jaguars to have drafted him on the second day and the "fans" who bought TebowTickets had to see their boy sitting on the sidelines holding a clipboard would have been intolerable. Or the chants of Te-Bow every time Garrard makes a bad pass. These are things that literally keep me up at night.

He might still be a good NFL quarterback. He'll need work on footwork, throwing motion, progressions, and the whole idea of taking snaps under center. The only time Tebow was under center was in the victory formation, something that he'll have to learn about once he gets to the NFL. He'll need a patient team that can invest the time and energy to build gradually over time, for Tebow is no Matt Ryan or Joe Flacco.

Another year in school was a wise choice, maybe Urban will add some non-shotgun formations as a payback for the leadership that Tebow's given to the Gators.

So, on behalf of myself, good luck next year Tim, hopefully your NFL career stays out of sight and mind until the Jaguars wrap up a lot of playoff wins in January 2010.

-CHris

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Wow! That's

a really good news! There will be no presure in April on Gene/jack to pick him, so they can get the player they REALLY wanted!

by Zoltan from Budapest on Jan 11, 2009 3:39 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I'm just glad

that Garrard has another year to show what he’s got. If the team does well and Garrard does well I think the Tebow chatter might not be so overwelming.

by Ewdtrey on Jan 11, 2009 6:41 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Good news for sure

During the national title game I kept having visions of hearing, “With the #8 pick, the Jacksonville Jaguars select Tim Tebow, QB, Florida” and myself just going behind whatever bar I’ll be at and grabbing a bottle.

"I smoke. If this bothers anyone, I suggest you look around at the world in which we live and shut your mouth."-Bill Hicks

by Jonathan Loesche on Jan 11, 2009 7:08 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Tebow talks

that is good news. Tebow may be a great college qb but the nfl is a whole different animal, and no team runs a shotgun offense the whole game

Armand Riendeau

by ARMJAG on Jan 11, 2009 8:08 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Tebow would be bad for Jags

Tim Tebow is the man. Tremendous competitor, great work ethic and drive, and seemingly an all around good person. However, if the Jaguars drafted him in any round it would be a horrible idea. The fan base would rip itself apart. I believe in the “Winning sells tickets” theory. Tim Tebow may sell a couple thousand tickets if drafted. There would also be a number of people who drop their tickets because of it.

You saw what happened with this fan base split on Byron Leftwich. Multiply that times 10 for Tim Tebow. It’d be chaos and David Garrard would be run out of town, then we would realize what a mistake we made because Tebow will not work out as an NFL quarterback. He struggles on 2nd and 3rd reads and is not consistently accurate as a passer.

That’s my opinion, and obviously I’m not Jesus so I can’t tell the future but the signs point to this. I just think it’d be bad for our team. He could work out for other teams at another position I think. A team that has a solid QB already so there’s no crazy controversy brewing.

What do you guys think? I’m not trying to bash Tebow at all. I really do think he is a good football player, even though I’ll admit to not being a Gators fan. I don’t hate the Gators though. I have lots of respect for their whole team and especially Tebow.

by jimbrophoto on Jan 11, 2009 10:29 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

inaccurate?

i don’t really get that claim. he’s been top five in passer efficiency the past two years. if you watched the title game, did you see the two passes to david nelson? he had tiny, tiny spots to fit the ball in, and they were both perfect. i think that he needs a lot of work on stuff like drop backs, and receiver progression, but i think his accuracy is just fine.

by abeaugh on Jan 12, 2009 5:14 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Did you see his two INT's. Those were horrible reads.

by JagSoldier on Jan 14, 2009 9:52 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

true

but they were two of the four he threw all year. everyone makes mad decisions. he makes way fewer than most.

by abeaugh on Jan 14, 2009 1:35 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Not Right Now

Like you guys, I don’t want to hear all of the pre draft hype about how good Tebow could be for this franchise. I think another year of college ball will do Tebow well, and maybe he will develop more as a passer. We will see how it goes next year, but until then, like you said we have one more year before everyone annoyingly starts saying Tebow should be our quarterback.

by Bestjagfan on Jan 11, 2009 11:01 PM EST reply actions 0 recs