Of all the things we’ve ever accused Tim Tebow of being, “objective” is not one of those things. He was a Gator. He won two national titles. He was Urban Meyer’s guy. Tim Tebow WAS the University of Florida. And then ESPN brought him on as an analyst for the SEC Network. Of course, there was many an eye roll about how there was no possible way he could be unbiased towards his alma mater.
However, things at Florida have been so mediocre this year, that even Tebow can’t turn a blind eye. He shared his thoughts on Tuesday.
Via ESPN:
“I don’t think the offense has an identity right now, and I don’t think that they know what they want their identity to be,” the former Florida quarterback said on Jacksonville sports radio station 1010 XL. “One of the biggest problems on the offense is leadership.”
Florida (3-3, 2-3 in the SEC) has a bye this weekend after getting embarrassed in a 42-13 homecoming rout against Missouri. Fans chanted “Fire Muschamp” and booed both the offense and quarterback Jeff Driskel before leaving in large numbers during the third quarter.
“[The Missouri loss] was tough to watch,” Tebow said. “If you’re a Gator fan, it was not easy to watch. They just didn’t play with the heart that I’m used to watching Florida Gators play with.”
Florida’s struggles aside, this is a promising sign for Tebow’s growing television career (or, all of it could be just great to see Florida fall so far depending on where your college football fandom lies). Tebow has come a long way from his first days of referring to his alma mater as “we” as a part of his new gig on the SEC Network.
SEC Network is 15 minutes old & Tim Tebow has already used "we" to describe Florida and gotten a birthday cake.
— Jon Solomon (@JonSolomon35) August 14, 2014
Tebow is developing objectivity that we have come to (hope to?) expect from our analysts no matter how much some of them fail to deliver. This is a promising sign for his future career – if Tim Tebow can see the flaws in Florida’s current system, there is hope for us all. As long as he doesn’t pull an AJ McCarron, of course.
