Yep it never was his arm. His throwing motion was good enough. It was always between his ears to improve his stats by 10% more in pass completions.
Some between-the-ears got addressed:
‘Another underlying problem that tied into Tebow’s issues in the NFL that House ID’d: The former All-American quarterback had no confidence in his throwing ability.
‘”He didn’t think he could make that throw, so he went to what he was confident in, and that was his legs,” House said.’
But I agree that reading a defense remains a question mark - I hope Kelly can help him there.
A continuation of my last post.
Most people who spout stuff about Tebow’s ‘throwing skills’, but don’t really understand, and who just have parroted what other talking heads have said, which has made me question them.
I’m going to explain it here for people who have been confused by the minor criticism parroted. Tebow’s past mechanics are not all bad but for a circular delivery although still fairly quick.
The conventional thinking is the quicker a QB gets the ball off in a pass the better. QB passing mechanics: for short and intermediate passes(like 20 to 30 yards), the benchmark for QBs to quickly get the ball off is to bring the ball under the ear over the chest with arm cocked then following through with the throwing motion passing the ball.
However, for long passes for 50 yards or more, it’s OK to load up with long wind ups to get more power into the pass as we see at the 1:40 mark in the video below where Tebow throws to D. Thomas for 51 yds against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
You can compare and contrast Tebow vs. Steeler’s QB Ben Roethlisberger who has the a little quicker passing delivery vs. Tim Tebow’s more circular and cocking/holding the ball farther behind his head.
5 minute highlights for the NFL playoff game
- Broncos 29 Steelers 23 OT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idx5wsH6Fys
As a note. Former quarter back Randall Cunningham of the Philadelphia Eagles and Minnesota Vikings had a very long wind up, but I don’t recall hearing any complaints about his passing mechanics.
It’s that he’s not wired to process what he’s seeing once the ball is snapped, and if you don’t have that, you simply can’t be a quarterback in this league.”
That’s polite speak for he’s so “heavenly minded that he’s no Earthly good”. He’s a committed Christian and even the nicest “nonChristians” think that the children of light have the intelligence of a nice soft teddy bear with no inherent aggressiveness to play with “the mean guys”! You don’t win Heisman trophies by having nothing in your brain to process play action info!
And who was that? Was it that guy named Anonymous again.......?