Tim Tebow Zone

The Florida Gators take the field in Gainesville this afternoon for the annual spring Orange and Blue game. Tim Tebow will be playing and you can count on him putting up some decent numbers.

There was a lot of talk this week about whether or not Tim Tebow should even play in the game. Why risk getting him hurt you know? Well, Meyer has a lot of things Tim needs to work on, such as the 2 minute drill and getting the ball off when being pressured. Rest assure though that Urban will be standing behind Tim Tebow the entire game to make sure no one hits him. Tim will be wearing a red shirt and Meyer will have the whistle in his mouth ready to blow a play dead befpre anyone touches Tim.

The ORange and Blue game is on ESPN this afternoon at 12:00 or 1:00. College gameday is on ESPN2 from 11:00-12:00. Be sure to check it out at the beginning and you know you’ll get to see Tebow in action.

Lindsay Jones of the Palm Beach Post, wrote an article of her observations from Spring Practice on Friday. Here is an excerpt of what she had to say about our favorite Gator, Tim Tebow.

The new wrinkles to the Gator offense this year will likely be the addition of a no-huddle offense, and putting quarterback Tim Tebow under center — instead of the shot-gun — at times. Adding the no-huddle should help Florida add to its total of number of plays per game (it averaged about 70 last year, and Mullen said the no-huddle could bump that up to around 80). “We’re not changing the offense,” Mullen said, “its just changing the speed we’re executing it.” Urban Meyer said that adding the no-huddle will hopefully help the team in late-game situations. “We have athletes,” Meyer said. “No-huddle is a chance for us to wear [opposing defenses] out.”

So they want to play Tebow more under center instead of in the shotgun. This obviously tells us they run be running Tebow as much anymore, at least not in the open field where he is exposed to injury. Meyer must be confident about his backfield if they want to reduce Tebow’s involvement in the running game. I’m excited about seeing Tebow use his arm a lot more this year and prove the NFL scouts that he can throw the ball far and accurate.

I also like the addition of the no-huddle offense. The Gators sucked last year in the 2-minute drill at the end of the game. If they put in a lot of time this Spring working on that, I know that Tebow can close out those close games.

I’ve heard a rumor that the Spring Orange and Blue Gator game on April 12 will actually be televised on ESPN. This means that all you Tim Tebow fans outside of Gainesville will actually get to see him play some. Tebow will definitely have a red jersey on, because they don’t want to risk seeing him get injured, but that doesn’t mean he’ll play weak. Tebow will line it up and launch em down field.

I’ve also heard that Urban Meyer is making an event out of the Spring Practice game and that he will hold 40 yard dash contests between players and even have students on campus compete to see if they can run faster than the players. It should be in an interesting day!