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The dismantling of a legend is in full force. These days, it is easy to wonder if Tim Tebow ever played football at all.

Listen, and you will hear about the long, loopy flaw in his delivery. Read, and you will find those who question his feet, his arm and his ability to read an opposing defense. Pay attention, and you will find those who think any NFL team interested in drafting Tebow is wasting its time.

Then there is Sam Wyche, who suggests the critics should worry more about their accuracy than Tebow’s.

“If this guy can’t be a starting quarterback in the NFL,” said Wyche, a former Bucs coach, “then I was in the wrong profession for a lot of years.”

Say this much for Wyche. He didn’t win enough games in Tampa Bay (23 in four years), but he knows what a quarterback looks like. Once, in San Francisco, he was Joe Montana’s quarterback coach. Once, in Cincinnati, he was Boomer Esiason’s head coach.

These days, Wyche is part of Tebow’s pit crew, the collection of coaches in charge of reinventing Tebow’s passing mechanics. Last month, Wyche and Tebow spent two days at a facility in Franklin, Tenn., working in the classroom and on the field.

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