This is now old news that Tim Tebow is now a New York Jet but today was the news conference. Tebow came out he usual confident and competent self but there was a change when he said “He was a football player first and a quarterback second.” Since the day that he has gone pro in 2010, as a surprising first round pick of the Denver Broncos, he has been steadfast in saying that he is a quarterback and nothing but a quarterback. Now after two years and already on he’s second team, he is willing “to do what is best for the team.” Does he really mean that, probably not, but from watching him talk to the press, we might have an inking on what he’s career after football might be. (Politics?
I am not going to talk completely about his failures because they have been well-documented and I am a positive person but his handlers pushed him for the Jets and if he wasn’t such a p.r. machine he would have taken his talents back to North Florida with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Why am I saying this you ask? because this press conference was not the New York Jets introducing Tim Tebow (if it was then where was owner Woody Johnson, General Manager Mike Tannenbaum and Head Coach Rex Ryan?) it was Tim Tebow, newest Jet quarterback introducing himself to the New York media.
Was this a good move for the New York Jets, absolutely not. Back in 2008 when the New York football Giants won their SECOND Super Bowl since 1986, the New York Jets wanted to make an ill-advised attempt to “take back the city” with trading for Brett Favre. The Jets stole the back pages while the Giants were on their way to their second straight Super Bowl until some 6’5 idiot who shall not be named shot himself literally in the leg and ended the Giants season. The Jets should know by now that talk is cheap and like NY Giants divisions rival, Washington Redskins you DO NOT WIN in the OFF-SEASON.
I have spoken to some people that said why get another QB when you just gave your starting QB, Mark Sanchez a contract extension. The Jets should have done a better job explaining the contract extension because it was done simply to create more cap space. Most NFL contracts are back-loaded and or have signing bonuses or other incentives to off-set cap numbers. Sanchez was in the second to last year of his contract with a high cap number (about 8 million) with a contract extension for three more years (plus a roster bonus next off-season that gives the Jets the ability to CUT the “Sanchize”) which brings Sanchez to the first year of his five year contract with a 3-5 million cap number, which saves the Jets money.
The Jets will not publicly say this but they have given up on Mark Sanchez and it will be extremely tough for him to keep hes starting job this season. For every bad pass, he will get booed and split an already fractured locker room even wider than Michael Strahan’s gap teeth. This will FORCE Rex Ryan to put in Tebow. Tebow will then bring excitement and the Jets will go on a run but look for them to collapse because for a THIRD straight year the defense will not have a good enough pass-rush.
This trade did shock me but nothing these days should shock me because stranger things have happened in the NFL like a new rumor that is obviously coming the source of the rumor himself, in Former Giant and Jet Head Coach Bill “Big Tuna” Parcells possibly returning to coaching to coach the New Orleans Saints until Sean Payton comes back. That would be a great fit because Parcells does a great job with Super Bowl ready teams and I am not talking about the Dallas Cowboys.
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