Tim Tebow will make it as an NFL quarterback.  The reason is very simple – he is a playmaker extraordinaire.  He is been a playmaker at every level.  He has played in the toughest college conference in the world, and won two national championships.  Josh McDaniels, his coach in Denver, and Urban Meyer, Tebow’s college coach in Florida, are good friends and share offensive philosophies.  They both push the envelope with new thinking in offensive football.  Josh McDaniel will let Tim Tebow be Tim Tebow. 

Tebow will not look like a typical professional quarterback.  But I can assure you, in my 18 years of playing Hall of Fame level football, I was not your typical quarterback.  You could never fit me into a box.  Tebow will be the same way.  And he will make it work.

What about Ben?

Ben Roethlisberger’s suspension is a good thing.  And Ben’s reaction to his suspension is also a good thing.  This will be a great lesson in life for a young man who has had every good thing that football has to offer.  He has two Super Bowl rings, and has had the honor of quarterbacking one of the elite franchises of the NFL.  And he has had some very serious missteps. 

Here is the good news.  Ben is scared.  He is scared of losing it all.  He now has a sense of desperation that will help him turn it around and make it right.  I believe he will.  The consequences of not turning things around are just too scary for Big Ben. 

He will be a better man for all of this.