One of the Broncos hardest home games in 2010 will come in week 3 on September 26th against the Indianapolis Colts. While it is debated who will be the starting quarterback, common sense insists that it will be Kyle Orton. Yet, Dwight Freeney is looking forward to hitting Tim Tebow. “I couldn’t wait to hit Mark Sanchez,” Freeney told Sam Farmer of the Los Angeles Times. “And I can’t wait to hit Tim Tebow even more.” If Mr. Freeney is hoping to get to Tebow in September though, he has another thing coming, as I expect Tebow won’t be getting much, if any, playing time as a rookie.<< MORE >>

"I don't think Tebow can play in a pro-style offense, not [at] quarterback," Jimmy Johnson said. "I think a team that's gonna look at Tim Tebow. They're gonna make one of two decisions. If they're going to bring him into their style of play, with their coaching staff, they've gotta project him to be maybe an H-back. "I don't know if he's fast enough to be a receiver, maybe he could be a tight end. [But] I don't know if he can block, I don't know if he can catch the ball. But he's gotta play another position. He can't play quarterback."<< MORE >>

After an intergalactic NCAA career with the Florida Gators, Tim Tebow is receiving a real education in playing football at the NFL level. As of right now, Tebow is the third-string quarterback with the Denver Broncos. And after watching him struggle against the Broncos secondary in mini-camp, it's clear that Tebow still has a lot to learn before he's at the level where he can be a starter in the NFL.While Tebow didn't fare too badly in straight passing drills, he really struggled when facing the Broncos defence. Now in Tebow's defence, the Broncos secondary features studs like Champ Bailey and Brian Dawkins. However, in the NFL there a number of teams with players just as good as Bailey or Dawkins in their secondary. Working under centre on one play, Tebow went play-action only to be picked off by safety Darcel McBath. On another play, Tebow was working under centre when he threw towards the sidelines and was almost picked off again.<< MORE >>

One of the recent rumors that has slipped out in between Champ Bailey, Brady Quinn, and Josh McDaniels' praise of Tim has been that his throwing mechanics aren't actually improving that drastically; he is having trouble maintaining his new throwing form. Obviously, if he developed a certain comfort level with his unorthodox style, he is going to gravitate toward using it long-term. A player's early NFL career might be, unfortunately, too late a time to teach an old dog new tricks. Should these rumors be of concern to the fans of the Denver Broncos?<< MORE >>

It’s great that the Florida Gators will build bronze statues outside Ben Hill Griffin Stadium that will honor Tim Tebow, Danny Wuerffel and Steve Spurrier, but aren’t the Gators forgetting somebody? How about a statue for the two most important people in the program – the Unnamed Bail Bondsman and Huntley Johnson, the legendary local attorney who traditionally gets all of UF’s football players out of trouble when they get arrested? The latest player to get arrested and suspended from all team activities is up-and-coming wide receiver Frankie Hammond, who was arrested for DUI last weekend when police said he was speeding, swerving and driving with two open bottles of Crown Royal whiskey in his car. I know many college students drink and drive, but isn’t there a deeper problem when a guy is driving around with two open bottles of blended Canadian whiskey? If this is the type of binge drinking that UF football players do, it’s no wonder that former defensive end Carlos Dunlap became one of the biggest goats in UF athletic history when he fell asleep at a red light, was arrested for DUI and missed the SEC Championship Game last December. It’s hard to keep track of all the arrests, but this is believed to be the the 28th football player to be charged with a crime since Florida coach Urban Meyer took over as coach in 2005. I know players from other programs also get arrested, but not at this rate.<< MORE >>

Off the field, Tebow walks proudly with regard to his devout Christian beliefs. He combines a humble exterior with a constant devoutness to evangelical Christianity and the mission of his father Bob Tebow’s evangelistic ministry in the Philippines, which boasts fundamentalist interpretations of the Bible. He made news during his senior year when he wore the name and number of Biblical verses on his eye black during games. He consistently refers to God's grace as the reason for his success and these outspoken beliefs have not settled well with some members of his football fraternity. “I don’t want any part of him or the circus,” one AFC front office executive told Yahoo! Sports Michael Silver. “At some point as a team, don’t you have to be concerned with what comes with him? The guy has never met a microphone he didn’t like and he’s obviously got a message. I think he needs to go away and hide for awhile.” During the administration of the Wonderlic test to Tebow's group, he made a request that the players bow their heads in prayer before taking the 50-question exam. One of the players reportedly said, "Shut the f—k up" to a roomful of laughter.<< MORE >>

Tim Tebow and Brady Quinn will get their shots in Broncos training camp. But Denver coach Josh McDaniels said this weekend there is no doubt who the team's starter is entering training camp. Kyle Orton. "We've got a guy who's going to go into camp as the starter, no question about it and he deserves it," McDaniels said. "If somebody comes in there and plays better than he does then that player will play." Orton started 15 games for the Broncos last year. The team then traded for Quinn in March and drafted Tebow in the first round. McDaniels said he welcomes the competition both will provide Orton in camp. But he left no ambiguity about the veteran's role on a team suddenly flush with big-name QBs. "He is the starter, no doubt," McDaniels said of Orton.<< MORE >>

We recently pointed out Peter King's article in the latest issue of Sports Illustrated, which features a close look at the ongoing effort to make Tim Tebow into an NFL quarterback. Among other things, King's article shows that Tebow has been slipping into his old throwing motion during some practice reps. As Mike Klis of the Denver Post points out, this fact conflicts with coach Josh McDaniels' insistence that Tebow has shown no problems with his mechanics. We get the impression that, while the Broncos will continue to try to ensure that Tebow demonstrates proper mechanics at the NFL level, the team is willing to accept the fact that, from time to time, he'll rely on the muscle memory resulting from thousands and thousands of throws made with his prior motion. But that doesn't mean the Broncos won't try to change him — or that they'll pretend that the effort to do so already has been completed.<< MORE >>

Could the Orlando Magic be looking to make a Superman swap? According to a few high-level unnamed sources, Orlando General Manager, Otis Smith, is growing ever more frustrated with the lack of leadership in his club. As beloved as the jovial and good-humored Dwight Howard is to the Magic fan base, his inability to bring a championship home to Orlando has Otis questioning whether or not he is the man of the future. With Dwight looking to spend his offseason making nice with Shaq and playing Hollywood, the stereotype of Dwight as a kid that just wants to goof around will only continue to be perpetuated. The Magic are said to be looking to make the type of unconventional move that will help put them over the top. If the team really hopes to achieve the highest level of NBA success then there is truly only one option that they can plausibly pursue. Trading Dwight Howard for Tim Tebow.<< MORE >>

Once the preseason starts, we'll all get to see for ourselves how Tim Tebow looks in a Denver Broncos uniform, and we won't have to speculate based on the tape of Tebow's games at Florida. But until then, it's always interesting to see how people who have spent a lot of time studying that tape view Tebow. And Greg Cosell, the creator and executive producer of the NFL Matchup show that we hope has a future on television, came away unimpressed from his own film study of Tebow. "On film, there is very little in Tebow's game that projects well at this point to the NFL," Cosell tells Ross Tucker in an interview at SI.com. "I could never draft a quarterback in the first round who does not show on tape the skill set and physical attributes that are demanded in the NFL." Cosell says that as a passer, Tebow simply isn't on an NFL level.<< MORE >>

So I mention Jason Cole's opinion at Yahoo! Sports not to provoke hate mail for either him or me, although in especially orange quarters it probably will. I mention it to offer a counterweight to the local exuberance of the various campaigns. Cole writes from a national perspective for Yahoo. The other day, he ranked all 32 teams by their quarterbacks. The big news was the Steelers slipped from top four to seventh because of Ben Roethlisberger's suspension. The Broncos? Cole had them 29th. "What do you get when you combine Kyle Orton, Brady Quinn and Tim Tebow?" he asked. "A backup, a flop and a prayer." I'm ducking for cover already. Even Cole admitted he might have taken a little literary license. "Yeah, that's harsh, but let's face reality," he went on.<< MORE >>