Yesterday Chris Bosh came out and said if the Miami Heat were at their best when he's at center then he's willing to play center. He refused to do this when initially signing with the Heat two years ago. Wow, playing a position you don't consider yourself for the betterment of your team? Imagine if Tim Tebow decided to do that, and, no, running the wildcat does not make his team better.
Chris Bosh and Tim Tebow are a lot alike. They were both drafted but not really to play their original position. Bosh is a power forward that played mostly center after being drafted by the Toronto Raptors. He will now do the same for the Miami Heat. Tim Tebow is a quarterback that was drafted to be a trick player. Let's face it, very few people said that Tebow should be drafted to be a starting QB. People have always said he should remake himself as a halfback or tight end, but Tebow has always said he sees himself as a QB. However, he also always says he do anything his team asks. So then become a running back.
The New York Jets would instantly become better is Tebow was their starting back. At 6-3/236, he's a bit tall for a running back, but he still gets the job done. He averaged nearly five and a half yards rushing last year. Sure that was technically as a quarterback, but everyone knew he was better at rushing than passing. He ran the option offense for crying out loud. He'd have to work on receiving if he became a running back, but I'm sure that's a helluva lot easier than completely redoing your throwing mechanics. Brad Smith learned how to catch the ball pretty well for the Jets and now the Bills.
The part that would make the Jets the most dangerous with Tebow at halfback is the shotgun formation. With both Sanchez and Tebow lined up in the shotgun, a defense would have no way of knowing who's going to take the snap. They'd have to guess every time, and if the Jets used this completely at random instead of Tebow in short yardage situations and Sanchez in long then defenses would really be screwed. It's a ten times better version of the wildcat because it's not inherently a trick play when you line up. Tebow could get the snap and run or get the snap and throw, or Sanchez could take the snap and throw or take the snap and hand it off to Tebow. Defensive coordinators would literally have nightmares. All it'd take is one or two situations when everyone expects it to be a pass but Tebow runs with it and then you'd have no idea what was going to happen.
Tebow being the backup QB that pushes Sanchez to be better and also runs a few wildcat plays does not make the Jets any better. Sanchez should have never been threatened by Tebow taking his job because Tebow is an awful quarterback. The man couldn't even complete 50 percent of passes last year, why would Sanchez be worried? As for the wildcat, every time Tebow comes out to run the wildcat, the defense will expect a run play because they know how inefficient Tebow is as a passer. Sure, Tebow burned the Steelers D through the air last postseason, but they didn't even try to stop Tebow from passing it. Simple pass coverage stops Tebow. Not to mention, defenses generally aren't tricked by the wildcat anyways. It's pretty easy to stop a trick play when you know from the start it's a trick play.
Tim Tebow needs to just accept that he's not a NFL quarterback. I don't understand why this is such a problem for him. Players change positions all the time once they get to the NFL. They do it because they want to play and they trust their coaches in that changing positions will make them better. Tebow is better running than passing. Why be a backup quarterback your entire career when you could potentially be a starting running back or tight end? Be like Bosh, embrace who you are, not who you wish to be.
References
http://espn.go.com/nba/truehoop/miamiheat/story/_/id/8375877/miami-heat-chris-bosh-willing-reconsider-playing-center
http://espn.go.com/nba/player/stats/_/id/1977/chris-bosh
http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/stats/_/id/13200/tim-tebow
http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/stats/_/id/9689/brad-smith
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