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By Darin Gantt | PFT
What Saints coach Sean Payton is doing with third quarterback Taysom Hill this year might seem revolutionary, or at least evolutionary.
But he apparently wanted to do all the same things year ago a quarterback who was even more of a curiosity.
According to Christopher Dabe of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, former Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow said he had conversations with Payton about having a hybrid quarterback/option/gadget role.
Tebow wasn’t specific about the time frame, just saying it was “back in the day” when he “talked to coach Payton a lot when he was trying to get me to come do that-ish, here.”
Tebow did say they had conversations after he was cut by the Jets in 2012. He went to camp with the Patriots and Eagles, and then went onto television and eventually baseball. ...
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