“I will not write about Tim Tebow. I will not write about Tim Tebow. I will not write about Tim Tebow.”

I wrote those words after the news broke that Tim Tebow was expected to sign with the Philadelphia Eagles. Yet here I am.

I have spent the last few years actively avoiding writing about Tebow. I have always felt it was pandering, it is click-bait. I try to be better than that.

So why write about him now?

Because it will be the only time (unless he actually does something of note on the field), the last time.

Tim Tebow is an interesting case study of success at the NFL level. Regardless of what the national media would have you believe his absence from the playing field has little to do with his actual ability on the field. Players with far less actual talent have had chance after chance in…