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  • help us figure out This left handed dilemma is the last left handed quarterback toe win in NFL playoff game, now a member of the ESPN team.

  • Tim Tebow, Tim Between you and Steve Young, more left handed quarterbacks are working for ESPN that are currently on NFL rosters.

  • Why do you think we don't Seymour lefty quarterbacks playing in the NFL?

  • That's a really good question.

  • I think there's a couple reasons, one, because there's just less lefties in the world.

  • Let's just be honest.

  • And so I do think that, you know, kind of hurts our world because lefties air pretty awesome when we need more of them.

  • So we need to encourage people to when they're young, to use their left hand.

  • Uh, it would least help them in baseball.

  • Um, but I also think it's it's unique.

  • It's different.

  • I still think there's a I even have a lot of friends that were very gifted, and their parents just, you know, put the ball in the right hand when they were young, because that's what their family did.

  • Yeah, and baseball is taking a lot of them, so it was being left handed an advantage or a disadvantage in your career.

  • You know, I think I used it as a mindset of an advantage just because I try to always find that mental edge of Yes, it's I'm a little different and there's less of us.

  • And it's a, I think, actually schematically.

  • Um, with your coaches and receivers, it might be a slight disadvantage.

  • Not enough.

  • We're out, actually worry about it, but it's enough where your receivers have to get used to it.

  • You know, when there's offensive linemen, defensive line running around in quarterback and you're throwing a slant pattern or a crossing route.

  • You know, they kind of see it coming from a certain place.

  • So receivers have to get used to it coming from a different angle, um, in a different place when they're looking back at at the quarterback.

  • And then I also think the offensive coordinators have to adjust how they're calling the game right.

  • You're coordinators get so used to calling a play action to a quarterbacks right or a bootleg.

  • Two quarterbacks, right?

  • And so they have to adjust.

  • There you go.

  • Now, in your job is an SEC network analyst.

  • You've seen a lot of two over his career.

  • He's been given this great opportunity to start for the Dolphins.

  • So what unique advantage do you feel being left handed gives him coming into this first starting appearance?

  • Yeah, I've seen every game, too, has played in college.

  • And I think, um, what gives to an advantage has nothing to do with which hand he throws it with.

  • It has to do with the way he throws it.

  • I think he is the most pure, um, thrower of the football that I've ever seen on the college level.

  • I have had the chance to watch a lot of really good ones, and it's not to take anything away from those guys.

  • It's to, uh, um has a special gift to throw the football, to throw it from different angles, to throw it with velocity, but also so catchable on time, Uh, in rhythm.

  • Hey just has a unique feel and gift, and, um, it is incredible toe Watch him.

  • He will go through practices and warm ups where it doesn't even come close to being incomplete.

  • Pass every ball will be right on the money.

  • So if he's watching now, if you could give him one sentence to think about, too, as he goes into his starting game.

  • What would it be?

  • My piece of advice to two is Continue to do what you have done your entire life that's made you different and made you special.

  • And yeah, sure, a piece of that is being left handed.

  • So you're awesome, Thio.

  • But what makes you even more awesome is the type of person that you are is the way that you care for people.

  • It's a way that you lead your team.

  • It's yes, you throw an amazing passing.

  • You're a great competitors, er and and you are.

  • You are great and clutch moments.

  • But what set him apart?

  • Why I think he has a chance to be great in the NFL is because he's a He's not just in elite passer.

  • He's not just in elite quarterback.

  • He's an elite person, right?

  • You know why to is different is when he got to Alabama.

  • Yes, he went, met all his team, but then he went on, went and met all the medical staff, and then he went and that all the assistance and he went and gave them gifts.

  • One by one, all the assistance when other people didn't even know who they were.

  • They never met him to a win.

  • And he went and said Hi to all those people.

  • And that's why I think he's a great quarterback to lead an organization because he's an elite person that truly cares about people.

  • And it comes from his family.

  • His faith is character.

  • Everything is about.

  • And that that translates to who someone is off the field.

  • Because I think his teammates will play for him.

  • They will follow him and he can lead an organization.

  • And that's why I love this young man.

  • Alright, from one great leader to another.

  • Tim Tebow always so great to talk to you.

  • Thanks so much.

  • Good talking with you.

  • Thank you so much for having me.

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