Tebow Lands A New Team


Heading into the NFL draft, most people wondered about Tim Tebow. Would he be drafted? Would he go high? Could he make it in the NFL?

Then-Broncos coach Josh McDaniels liked what he saw, and he drafted Tebow in the first round. But McDaniels didn't last long enough to see how Tebow would pan out for the Broncos. By the time Tebow started his first games, McDaniels had been fired.

The following season, when Tebow led the Broncos into the playoffs and into a playoff battle with the New England Patriots, McDaniels had a front row seat — from the Patriots' bench. McDaniels returned to what he arguably did best, running the offense for the New England Patriots. Tebow and the Broncos lost that game, then Tebow lost his job.

After a year of wandering in New York with the Jets, Tebow was set adrift shortly after the NFL draft in April. And since then he's waited to catch on. Many believed he'd be out of the NFL, and more likely end up in the CFL or Arena League.

This baffled me. In his only opportunities as a starter, he recorded a winning record, made the playoffs, and won a playoff game. How many "franchise" quarterbacks would like to be able to say that? Matt Stafford is considered a good quarterback, but he has a losing overall record and bottomed out in his only trip to the playoffs. Yet he's an entrenched starter, and Tebow was written off as a lost cause.

Until today, when the New England Patriots — and the man that once drafted him — signed Tebow. He was signed as a quarterback, and is expected to be a backup quarterback. It seems like the idea place for him to grow, learn, and someday compete.

It seems fitting that the Patriots, an organization with a penchant for picking up lost causes and spinning them into gold, would take a chance on Tebow. I can only hope he rewards them for their faith.

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