Tim Tebow's catapult throwing motion & other sights from Broncos training camp (PHOTOS)

• Michael, please move this to monday's thread. Thanks 

• What a mess. Here's a kid that was handed an opportunity so rare I can't think of the last time it happened, and he threw it away. Tebow played third last night because he didn't deserve to play any sooner. Quinn came into camp ready to play. Execute. Focus on the qb position. He earned the 2 and then proved he was worthy of it when he got the chance. Tebow wasted an entire off season being Tebow the brand, the promoter, the showman, pitchman, and threw away the opportunity to come into camp closer to NFL ready than last year. It was a catastrophic mistake. It's inconceivable that Fox and Elway DIDN'T tell this like able young man, before they parted ways leading into the work stoppage, that his very career as a Quarterback at that level hinged on his learning the basic fundamentals of the position, refining them, and coming into camp ready to execute them. I have no doubt Elway and Fox gave him names of qb gurus, camps, drills to work on, and schedules pertaining to quarterback fundamental drills. They obviously also told him that if he did all those things, that if he applied that "legendary work ethic" to his assignment, that he'd be the guy. The near miss on the Orton trade attempt bears that out. The organization was ready to throw all in with this kid, assuming he'd come in ready. It's on Tebow that he declined the help. He went about his off season as though the job was his, no further improvement was needed to take his place as one of the holders of a job only 32 people in the world are good enough to do. Maybe his hubris led him to believe he knows more than the people coaching this team. What ever the reason, he blew an opportunity he'll most likely never get again. But Brady Quinn DID do all those things. The difference, the fall off from Quinn's and Orton's game to Tebow's is cavernous.  Quinn and Orton are the quarterbacks here for the foreseeable future. They should be. They earned it. Elway and Fox are adults, and professionals building a winning franchise utilizing serious players that are serious about their jobs.   As for Tebow?   Telling people you're that guy who's first in the building, last to leave, "the hardest worker", gym bag on the lap during interviews, and on and on, isn't the same as actually refining position specific skill sets, throwing fundamentals, and footwork that is a lifeline in that profession. Eventually every con gets figured out, all fraud is exposed. That's unfolding before a city's very eyes, whether the zanies that reside in tebowville can acknowledge it or not. Opportunities are rarely perfect. Taking advantage of them sometimes requires choices being made, other things being put on hold or sacrificed. But an opportunity to he GIVEN a starting quarterback job in the NFL should have been worth 6 and a half months of learning the position. It obviously wasn't, and in all likelihood he's finished here. Life moves on, people you disappoint look elsewhere, and hard lessons are learned. Let's hope, for his sake, he learned his lesson.

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