Tim Tebow Does Not Take Mel Kiper's Criticism Kindly, Calls Him Out on Air

Mel Kiper is renowned for making excellent calls about the future potential of college players in the NFL. Okay, not really, but he gets paid a lot of money to yell a lot, bob his hair and randomly guess whether or not people will succeed at the next level while using words like "MOTOR" and "UPSIDE" and "POTENTIABILITYNESS".

And recently, he was earning a paycheck by dogging Tim Tebow, stating that he would be better off as a tight end in the NFL. (Which amounts to your standard "Sell more viewers!" ESPN controversial statement, nothing more, nothing less.)

So things got a little awkward when Tebow appears on Kiper's radio show recently and called Hair out on air. Transcription courtesy of CFT.

"You tell me this," Tebow said to Kiper during the radio exchange. "What do you think I need to do to be an NFL quarterback? You tell me that."

Unfortunately, Kiper didn't give Tebow a direct answer to his direct question.

"You're just too good with the ball in your hands not to think, Could he be Frank Wycheck? Could he be Chris Cooley? That's why," Kiper said. "You're too good, doing what you do, Tim, running with the football."

[...]To which Tebow replied, "The quarterback has the ball in his hands every play."

Really though, what Kiper is saying makes total sense. Mainly because quarterbacks, under NFL rules, are not allowed to run with the football in their hands. Sigh.

The thing about Tebow is that he's going to be a draft day nightmare for those of us who like to watch television, because the talking heads won't stop debating whether he can be a good NFL player until he gets drafted.

Additionally, opinions on Tebow are similar to the 2008 election in that the two sides are distinctly distributed: some nutcases/homers think that he'll end up as the "next Donovan McNabb", while others, like Kiper, think he will be the next Bo Scaife. Should be a fun few months.