It has been a roller coaster career for the former Florida gator QB. Tim Tebow has been the most-talked about quarterback in recent memory, and he doesn’t even play for his current team, the New York Jets. But after media-darling Tim Tebow fell out of favor in both Denver and New York, the headlines seemed to dissipate little by little.
They’re baaaaaaaack.
Yes that’s right Tim Tebow is making headlines yet again, only this time he has some defense with him. One week removed from being ripped by former NFL-QB Jeff Garcia, Tebow has somebody in his corner. That man is Steve Clarkson.
Clarkson, who has served as an instructor to many NFL quarterbacks, has been working with the popular backup over the past three days to fix issues with his mechanics and throwing motion, the very things that have plagued Tebow’s unique career. According to a source, Clarkson practically “begged” and “pleaded” for Tebow to come work with him.
After three days of observation, Clarkson has not seen any reason why his “client” cannot play in the NFL. In fact, he believes that the former first-round pick of the Broncos was purposely sabotaged by having been traded to New York instead of Jacksonville.
“I think he was purposefully sent to New York,” said Clarkson, via the Newark Star-Ledger. “You send him to a situation where you have instability with your coach—you don’t know if he’s coming or going. You have a fragile-minded Mark Sanchez at quarterback. You stick Tim Tebow in there and you kill two birds with one stone. So if you’re Denver, you’ve got to be thinking, ‘let’s send him to New York, we basically kill an opponent and at the same time, Tim Tebow doesn’t come back to bite us in the proverbial butt because he’s not going to make it out of there.’”
“If you send [Tebow] to Jacksonville, all of a sudden, he’s got that fan base behind him and all of a sudden, he’s doing what he’s done all his life—and that’s win games. That would put a lot of ill will toward your organization. There’s a lot of politics that go on with it. I think Timmy was just unfortunate to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
Clarkson believes that the problem stems from not being given the opportunity to take over the entire offense in New York.
“I think in Tim’s case, they said, ‘We’ve got four plays for you. You execute these four plays and that’s all you’re going to get.’ When you walk on the field and that’s all you practice and you don’t get any meaningful reps, you walk into a game and the defense is basically telling your offensive line where the ball is going to go. It’s pretty depressing and it doesn’t give you much room for hope. I would hope wherever he ends up that they give him an opportunity, and I think if [a team] does, they’ll be pleasantly surprised. I think the guy still can play.”
Don’t even get Clarkson started on the guy starting over Tebow, Mark Sanchez. The QB trainer took the media to criticize Sanchez, calling him a “shadow of himself” and a “broken-spirited quarterback with very little support.
Aside from the obvious resentment towards Sanchez, Clarkson has an unwavering trust in Tebow’s abilities. His faith is so trusting that he has been imploring NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to let Tebow go to Jacksonville to solve their QB woes. He believes Tebow would put butts in the seats and get fans excited about the franchise.
Like many supporters of the popular QB, Clarkson believes that Tebow was never given a fair chance with the Jets. In theory, Clarkson may be right. With the NFL slowly developing a Read-Option based offense, Tebow could flourish in a lead or reserve role. At this point, the major problem is his unwillingness to switch to an h-back or a tight end, not to mention all of the baggage and headaches that he brings to a team’s locker room.
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