What? You kidding!? This story is just a preface for...TEBOW II (or is it V): The TEBOW Strikes Back! I hear James Earl Jones is going to do the voices of all the people who have ever doubted Tebow's unequalled quarterbacking abilities. I wonder where this chapter will be set? Probably some uninhibited frozen wasteland bereft of almost all life. Hmmm, I suppose it's gonna be a CFL team then.... or he's gonna play for the Vikes.
Only thing worse than the Tebow trade was Sparano's complete inability to figure out a way to use him.
Oh so true! Brett Favre & Neil O'Donnell come to mind....though the TE-BLOW trade nearly destroyed my 45-year luv affair I had with the the JETS. 1 of THEE MOST dumbest, assinine, idiotic, ridiculous, bone-headed, "WTF WERE YOU THINKING/MANAGEMENT MUST HAVE BEEN SMOKIN' SOME PURE PCP-LACED CRACK WITH A MAD DOG 20-20 CHASER" personnel moves in TITAN/JET HISTORY!!! Hate to re-hash, but I KNEW it was gonna lead to abject FAILURE!!! I DEPISE TE-BLOWME; not because of his religious beliefs nor his anally annoying followers...but because he SUCKS AS A QB!!!! Whew! Thanks folks for allowing me to get that off my chest.....Have a nice day!
This was topped only by retaining Rex. Rex never gave him a chance because of the boner he had for Mark.
Mr. T had two awful off seasons 2011 & 2012. Highlighted by extending and guaranteeing Sanchez's contract the signing Drew Stanton only to trade him two weeks later after completing a trade for Tebow. It appeared he had no plan and was flying by the seat of his pants!
Exactly,Add Revis and Holmes getting injured to that list.Tebow wasn't the reason we went 6-10,Only on the Jets can you blame the season on the 4th string qb.The guy barely saw the field.Mark Sanchez was the reason we went 6-10.He threw a perfectly good INT this preseason before he got hurt and Tebow wasn't there on the sideline.Fault lies mostly with Mr Buttfumble
This is a good thing though. It means that the master plan to make the Jets less interesting as fodder for media mischief is working.
Your premise is correct, but it showed a lack of a plan when you extend & guarantee Sanchez's contract and then trade for Tebow. Also they obviously had no clue how to use Tebow!
If Tannenbaum feels that way then why didn't he answer the question most Jets fans have been asking for over a year. When Mark was struggling why not give Tebow a real chance to play. Could it have been any worse. Was it because the coaching staff felt he was horrible. Or because they didn't know how to put in a package for him and never did it in pre-season when Rex claimed they were not going to show their hand until the regular season. It looks to me that with all of the injuries in the NFL TT was being blackballed for whatever reason. Teams were signing guys off the street when Qbs went down but no one even gave Tim a tryout. Even the Vikings punter (who claims he is being blackballed) said it last week on TV that it's hard to believe there were guys being signed over Tim who had no credentials. Not sure the reason for this. Is it because like Kluwe says his religious beliefs or maybe behind the scenes power plays by the religious right trying to force teams to play him over other guys. As for pre-season with NEP there was really no roster spot for Tim there. They normally only carry two Qbs. He did not pick up the Patriots offense during training camp and although he played a lot in pre-season games wasn't very good. Although in the final exhibition game he did throw two TD passes.
Tebow didn't get to play because he's not a good QB. The Jets were desperate for answers as the 2008 to 2010 window closed definitively. If Tebow had been able to play the most important position on the field he'd have been on the field.
I don't know why he didn't even get a chance to play. Esp after he had all of that success starting for Denver. You can say whatever you want. The easy answer was that he is horrible. But he won games and can move the chains. Something the Jets couldn't do in 2012. They had nothing to lose giving him a few starts. He never got a chance. The play calls for him were so obvious. Running up the middle into a stacked line on almost every call. To me you can't call a guy terrible until he proves it on the field. Mark was terrible and deserved to be benched. Much earlier than he was. All I'm saying is I would have like to have seen what he can do on the field. I don't think the coaching staff had adequately prepared a Tebow package and didn't know how to run one. But I hope he does get a chance somewhere.
He didn't get a chance to play because he didn't give the Jets any confidence that playing him would be an improvement. The fact that Sanchez was screwing up so badly and the Jets still didn't give Tebow a chance tells you a lot about his actual skill levels. Tebow was a big, semi-fast guy in college who absolutely dominated players at that level. You need to be able to throw the ball well to play at the next level. It's not like he didn't have a million people in his ear over the last 4 years trying to get him to change his mechanics and become a more effective passer. He just never was able to take that coaching and do much with it. If Johnny Manziel doesn't become a much better passer at the next level he's going to fail also. All that jigging around between defenders is going to get him killed in the NFL. NFL players are big AND fast, not just one or the other.
Ryan Mallette almost never plays for the Patriots even in blowouts. It has been a wasted career for him with the Patriots. There were rumors he was going to be traded to Cleveland last training camp but it never happened. He is basically an insurance policy in case Brady is injured. So there was no chance of Tebow making that team unless there was an injury. Plus TT was very slow picking up their offense and that is also a knock on him. He has a low football IQ. Not sure if this is true but that's something I've seen mentioned a lot over the years. I just can't imagine why the guy wasn't even given a tryout during the season when there were a rash of injuries. If he looks horrible then don't sign him. So you have to think it's more than just his talent or lack of talent. He has enough accomplishments to get his foot in the door. Plus look at all of the teams that run the read option. You would think a team could at least fit him in as a possible backup without having to redo their entire scheme. I'm not saying he's good. But the Jets did trade for him. And when he did get into games it wasn't all horrible. He did make first downs usually with his legs because Tony Sparano would not let him throw. He attempted almost no passes that season. Plus the guy played on STs. Now where can you find a Qb who is wiling to do that. And he even gained weight so he could block. Which hurt him on offense. Westoff liked him and said he wasn't a bad STs player. I think the guy deserved a chance last season. We really had nothing to lose.
Jets, Jets This would be a bigger story if he mentioned that Woody pushed for Tebow and Favre. Of course, if he said that he would never get a job in football again.
He gave David Harris a ridiculous contract that he isn't worth. He gave Holmes a contract that obviously didn't work out, throw in the Tebow trade and the Sanchez extension. I don't think he deserved to be fired after 2012. He was still only 2 years removed from being in back to back AFC Title Games. Firing him that soon is kind of harsh. But I can see the case for it. His drafts were getting weaker after 2007 (although 2011 was pretty good). A couple of big busts in Gholston and Sanchez. You can't strike out in back to back years when your picking in the top 6 in both of them. Gholston needed to be an Aldon Smith type of player for us and Sanchez needed to be it least a Ryan Tannehill. If those two guys worked out to be that our team doesn't take the huge plunge it took after 2010 IMO.
