There is nothing about having dyslexia that would prevent Tim from playing QB successfully. Dyslexia is a language disorder that manifests itself in difficulty processing phonological information and in mapping that information to orthographic information. It is a problem with written language (i.e., reading print and writing print), not with anything to do with football.

Just because we use the word "reads" when we discuss what QBs do, it doesn't mean that what they are doing in any way resembles actual reading. Reading defenses is something completely distinct from reading books.

It sounds like Reilly is buying into the long-debunked myth that dyslexia has something to do with reversals or spatial orientation. The general population still things of dyslexia as seeing letters or words backward, but the general population is clueless about this, too.

You can trust me on this particular topic.