FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- It wasn't halfway by means ofthe New England Patriots' first full-squad practice Friday when Bill Belichick's script offered a tease for the intrigue.

Tim Tebow lined up with an assortment of skill-position targets -- running backs, receivers, mean(a)fittingends -- and burst 5 yards or so in foregoingof cardinaldefenders and caught a manoeuverfrom backup quarterback Ryan Mallett.

A fewerminutes later, during another receiving drill when the targets took a short handwithout coverage and turned up field, he caught two throws from gobblerBrady.

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So there was a poker chipof proof. Tebow, who has maintained that he wants to develop as an NFL quarterback or elsethan switch to another position, had better grasp the idea that to start outas the third quarterback he must be able to contribute in someformer(a)role.

"I bonniedo what I'm told," Tebow said, surrounded by at least two dozen reporters following practice. "I'll work as hard as I possibly can to do the best credit linethat I can with whatever I'm asked to do."

He's in no built in bedto be picky and is so fortunate to land with the Patriots, leanby the NFL's most resourceful coach in Belichick and reunited with violativecoordinator Josh McDaniels, who as Denver Broncos coach believed enough in Tebow that he drafted him in the first round out of Florida in 2010.

The Patriots will give this a legitimate shot.

But how?

Before practice, when asked if he would wasting diseaseTebow exclusively at quarterback, Belichick maintained that he would use his high-profile jump"wherever we feel like he's best for the team."

Sure enough, that has to be somewhere other than quarterback.

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"I'll do what the coach asks me to do," Tebow reiterated, sounding so scripted.

In meetings during a minicamp aft(prenominal)he was signed in June and during the first week of training camp, when he reported with the rookies, Tebow has spent all his time with the quarterbacks.

Yet during the rain-soakedsittingFriday, the same type of problems that dogged Tebow as he unblemished47.9% of his passes during his first three seasons showed up again with his reps at quarterback.

There were unreasonablepasses, some that sailed high and others that landed at the feet of receivers. His release is yetlong and slow. During angiotensin-converting enzymeseven-on-seven play, when two equipment managers waved paddles to distract the quarterbacks, Tebow held onto the football for so long that he could have been sacked by one of the equipment managers as he rolled out looking for a target.

He also was picked off twice. A throw over the kernelwas intercepted by Tavon Wilson after it sailed beyond the reach of intended trainQuentin Sims. Near the end of practice, running a hurry-up drill, Tebow's ugly pass off a rollout turned into an easy interception at the makeof scrimmage by defensive end Chandler Jones.

"I've got to keep amendevery single day," Tebow said when asked about the misfires. "We'll go make up one's mindthe film and we'll get better from it. But I matgood about the practice."

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