This is incorrect. When we have a a playoff spot locked up and seeding is set heading into Week 17, Tebow will start that last game. :beer:
1) preseason stats in formaitons he likely wouldnt even be used in playing without the first string offense is utterly meaningless. his regular season stats as a starter are much more telling. 2) if sanchez plays so poorly he is forced to the bench, it wont take much from tebow to take over that spot. crap on tebow all you want. he is at best an average quarterback. but he does protect the football and has an outstanding TD/turnover ratio. his completion percentage is low. you can choose which side of the fence you want to be on as to if that can improce or the circumstances to it. tebow is not absolute garabage. and anyone who would use any criteria to show it, could use the same criteria on sanchez, whose passing efficnecy has been the same or worse
It doesn't matter whether Tanny has a say in the snap count as long as there is a general game strategy in place; he's privy to it; and he's commenting on it truthfully. 99% wouldn't bother me in the least although I don't expect to see it. 80% would be somewhat annoying but it would be covered by his statment. The point is that he's giving a headsup not to expect Tebow in greater than 20% of the time barring an extreme change of circumstances. It seems credible from a gameplan and PR standpoint so why is it worthless? Of course he isn't counting snaps and phoning in that would be absurd. It's not a statement about needing Tebow, it's a statement that there won't be too much of him. My main fear with regards to Tebow is that there will be too much of him. This is trying to address that.
A team that has two starting QB's has no starting QB's. I'm just praying that everybody in the organization from Woody on down to the locker room is aware of that eternal truism. If Sanchez gets hurt, well he gets hurt and there's nothing to do about that. If Tebow plays more than a token number of snaps a game other than that at QB it is going to get ugly fast. Sanchez and Tebow will not be contributing to the ugliness at all. It'll be everybody else from the fans to the media to the players that will be caught in that vise. Watching the Todd/Robinson split was enough for one lifetime. Matt Robinson should never have sniffed the field with Richard Todd healthy but he did.
I think the concern people have is that what is being done with Tebow is actually not just a wildcat, but en entire second offense. And the 10 to 20% a week estimate gives them an excuse to install more and more plays each week, such that by the end of the season, they have a backup quarterback with an entire offense built around him. It feels sort of look a good thing for the paranoids to latch onto as proof that the team doesn't think Sanchez is the future. Notice how they always say "Sanchez is our quarterback." Or "Sanchez is our starting quarterback." So every time they come out with something like this 80 to 90 percent comment, it doesn't help or hurt -- it just seems no matter what they do, it's consistent with both possibilities.
What have you heard from anyone in the organization that says anyone thinks the Jets have two starting QBs?
When you have two young QB's who have both started in the NFL on teams that were successful you don't have to say anything to know that's the reality that is lying just beneath the surface. The Jets are not known for their wisdom or expertise in player development at this point. They aren't known for their ability to control the locker room. What they are known for is their grabs at the big shiny thing of the moment. What they're known for is an almost pathological need for attention, from the owner on down. When I look at the potential dynamics of having two young QB's who both started double-digit games last year in the NFL on the roster it makes me queasy. When one of them is an almost cult-like figure with a devoted following and he's supposedly #2 on the depth chart? That is good for the shudders. One of the very real possibilities this season is that the Jets are on the back page of all the dailies all season long with what everybody acknowledges to be the biggest most burning QB controversy in NFL history. The scary thing is that this could happen if Sanchez is playing well but his receivers have the dropsies. The scarier thing is that Woody might revel in all the attention.
Personally I'm willing to bet most of the time we see Tebow on the field he'll be in the backfield as a RB setting up direct snaps to him, or quick pitches to him where he breaks and either runs or passes based on the situation, or most of the time a snap to Sanchez with a handoff to the other RB or a pass from Sanchez to a reciever, including possibly Tebow. If I recall correctly back in Staubach's days with Dallas they had a running back named Calvin Hill who Dallas used to use in such a way on a limited basis (13 pass attempts in 6 seasons). Obviously Tebow, if used in such a manner, would have more pass attempts out of the RB position if used that way. To me using Tebow in the backfield in this manner would create the biggest nightmare for defenses as Tebow, to me, is really a running back with a powerful, but inaccurate, arm. If Tebow were used in this manner though it would mean a lot less playing time for Conner.
Fullback is a dying position in the NFL at this point. It has become specialized to the point that it is basically just a blocking position and more valuable in the running game than the passing game. This is why many teams have just a vestigial FB on the roster and a few have none. Using Tebow as an H-back in the backfield makes all kinds of sense. The H-back is still a viable position, since the players tend to be taller than FB's and more adaptable to either pass blocking or actually running outlet routes. You can make a good argument that the NFL has bypassed the correct personnel alignment in the spread, which would be an H-back in the backfield behind the QB along with the 3 WR's and a TE. The H-back is a much more flexible piece than either the second TE or the 4th WR. He can actually carry the ball on a draw out of the spread when the defense is also spread out.
gonna agree, Fullback is on the verge of becoming a dinosaur, extinct. With today's wide open offenses and very passing friendly rule structure a Fullback is pretty much extinct in the model used today, now if you had a fullback like say John Riggins who can truly bulldoze yardage that's a different story. But Fullbacks like Conner are pretty much pure blockers in today's schemes.
