You may have noticed that Tim Tebow is a muscular chap. I believe he's the most muscular quarterback I've ever seen, unless that was muscle mass on Jared Lorenzen, and I don't believe it was.
One ex-coach out there thinks that all the muscle is detrimental to Tebow's play. The NFL Network's Brian Billick would like to see Tim Tebow get a little more lithe. Via The Huddle:
"I think the No. 1 thing Tim Tebow has to do, I don't think he can lift the way he's lifted before. There's three people that can't lift the way Tim Tebow does: pro quarterbacks, pro tennis players and golfers."
Tebow packs 236 chiseled pounds onto his 6-3 frame.
"He has got to cut back on that rigid, thick (frame)," said Billick. "I know it keeps him alive as a running quarterback, but it does not bode well for his passing, the fluidity that he has to have. So that's, to me, job one in the offseason, he's got to change his (conditioning) mindset."
It's an interesting point, but I don't know if Billick is right. Wouldn't Tebow without the muscle be kind of like Darius Heyward-Bey without all the speed?
Obviously, a lot of things can and should change about how Tim Tebow throws the football, and maybe the muscle mass isn't helping him. But surely, there are about 30 other things he can work on before he starts to worry about that: where he holds the ball, where he starts the throwing motion, making everything more compact, getting his feet right. When he gets those things down, and he still can't throw the ball, then maybe we put him on the "Christian Bale before 'The Fighter'" weight-loss plan.
I mean, he's big, but he's not this dude. His arms have room to move.
And if you take the muscle off of Tebow, doesn't he break fewer tackles, get sacked more easily and lose a lot of his ability to keep a play alive? And if Tim Tebow can't do those things, is he still Tim Tebow?
I think what you'd be left with is a guy who looks more like a prototypical quarterback, but would still have major issues with throwing accuracy, and he wouldn't be a spectacular runner, either. Congratulations. You've created Mark Sanchez.
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