Here Comes Some Fun!

For sheer entertainment value there isn't much that beats a Bill Belichick press conference. We'll likely see a run of instant classics with sometime quarterback Tim Tebow now in a New England Patriots uniform. When I heard about the signing I immediately got weak in the knees dreaming of the press conferences to follow. I love Bill Belichick press conferences. Who doesn't?

Several weeks ago, Yahoo!'s Mike Silver wrote that, according to sources close to the Patriots, Belichick "hates Tim Tebow." Now, I really like Silver as a football writer and as a fellow Cal fellow but several things didn't make much sense with his article on Belichick's feelings for Tebow. First of all, I can't imagine Belichick ever completely disregarding any intriguing football player. Especially an intriguing football player that he's never coached. If nothing else, Tebow is most certainly an intriguing football player. He's far more intriguing right now than anything close to an accomplished quarterback. If there is any chance a player might help his team, I think that Belichick considers that player. This signing certainly shows that. As did the sometimes questioned acquisitions of Chad Johnson and Albert Haynesworth. It can't hurt to look. Tebow brings intangibles that are found in very few football players. His drive, his energy, his competitiveness has often proven to be infectious. I can easily imagine Belichick seriously questioning Tebow's throwing mechanics. I can easily hear Belichick even saying that he "hates" the way that Tebow throws a football. Maybe that was actually what Silver's source was really trying to say. This "source" makes the least sense of all. It sounded like this "source" is a Patriots employee. A Patriots employee relaying to a reporter the words spoken inside the team's facilities, especially the words spoken by the coach, likely isn't a Patriots employee for very long. I just don't see it.

People just need to settle down. Bill Belichick signed Tim Tebow because of the possibility that Tebow might help the New England Patriots win football games. It's as simple as that. Belichick said so in his press conference. Few people, especially those in the media, want anything about Tebow to be simple. They want drama and it must be killing them when Belichick fails to provide it. It's June. Tim Tebow was signed to be the 90th player on the Patriots roster. This is a Patriots team that has Tom Brady at the position that the 90th player plays. There's some pretty simple math right there. There's over three months before the start of the 2014 NFL season. The Patriots coaches have that time to figure out what they have in Tebow and how they want to use him to win football games. I'm actually curious to see how they plan to use their unique football player but I'm smart enough to know that Bill Belichick has no intention of telling anyone outside of the Patriots building what that is. Well, there is one person that might be inside that building that Belichick shouldn't tell. Fortunately, the media isn't smart enough to know that Belichick won't offer much. That's why the press conferences will be so much fun. Bill Belichick is at his hilarious best when the media is at their mind-numbing worst. Tim Tebow always brings out the very worst in the media. This is gonna be great!