Funny, but there might be a ring of truth to this. Linsanity boosted the Knick's stature in the city AND their bottom line. Woody, while not quite in Dolan's class, still is a owner obsessed with perception and desperately wanted the Jets back in the news. He's hoping Tebow does for the Jets what Lin did for the Knicks. At the very least, he'll generate media buzz and when it comes to the Jets, you can never have enough media buzz.
Considering the Jets just brought Tebow in the sell Tickets, I think they might care what the fans who paid money to see Tebow play think.
It says Tom Brady is a far better QB than Mark Sanchez is. Tebow either needs to be a starting QB or behind an elite QB secure in his standing who the Tebowmaniacs can't call for to be benched while he tries and learn/develop at the position Having him as a wild cat type option behind someone like Sanchez is a disaster. The people thinking that's a reasonable option will find out just how psycho the Tebow fan base and hype is very shortly. It's just surprising you didn't notice it in Denver last year. You've got a full blown QB controversy already. Polls on ESPN already calling for Tebow to start including in NY and NJ. Imagine the media after the first bad game by Sanchez. It's going to be a circus.
SportsNation at ESPN has a poll regarding who should be the Jets starting QB in 2012. Tebow is ahead of Sanchez 51%-49%. Amazing.
Tebow is ALWAYS favored in the Sportsnation polls, so take it with a grain of salt. People just love him
Rex, as Mark struggled today did you give any consideration to going to Tim? - get ready for this x10000 all season long every game, hell every training camp practice.
Kris Jenkins threw up in his mouth when he heard about the deal http://web.sny.tv/media/video.jsp?content_id=20240991&topic_id=6479520&v=3&tcid=tw_video_20240991
Tim Tebow makes Kordell Stewart look like Peyton Manning. To wit: Stewarts first season as a starter he completed 53.6% of his passes for 21 TD's. It was pretty much all downhill from there but the completion percentages went up. If Tim Tebow was even a moderately capable QB you could defend this move. He's not. He's a one-trick pony. He has been in the NFL for two seasons now and he has a 47.3% completion percentage. His career completion percentage is 8 points below Mark Sanchez who is considered an inaccurate passer. His percentage last season was 10 points below Sanchez who was still considered an inaccurate passer. Tebow couldn't even complete 47% of his passes in a season in which the expectation was that the Broncos were going to run heavily. They only passed the ball 45% of the time and he still couldn't complete passes even with the box stacked heavily against them. Tebow was sacked 33 times in a bit more than half of the passing attempts that Sanchez had. He would have had 60 sacks if he got the same 582 dropbacks that Sanchez had. It's just a horrible move on the face of it and that doesn't even take into account the psycho-social elements involved in bringing another QB who started a game in the playoffs last year into what may well be a split locker room as it is. It doesn't even take into account the fact that the Jets have no way to resolve the problem if the locker room fractures again because they are heavily committed to Sanchez financially and for cap purposes over the next two seasons. This is like the Titanic seeing the iceberg in the distance and setting course for it anyway.
Exactly what is the risk here? Here's are the possibilities: 1. We lose draft picks. Very little risk. A no-brainer. We gave up a 4th and 6th (and gained a 7th). That's about the price we paid for Joe McKnight, currently a special-teams ace. You fill out role players around that area, you don't get stars and if you miss, that's totally normal. That's exactly what he will be, a role player in this offense, maybe getting 6-8 snaps a game, tops. 2. We mess up "chemistry". Again, zero risk here since we're already near zero. The fact that Tebow has been loved by teammates since he was in high school on every stop of his journey should tell you this should be a net positive. 3. We get a media circus. We've had a media circus here since the Bill Parcells days. Players that play here know this and the media attention's already turned up to 11. Very little risk. 4. We shake Mark's confidence. This guy has played behind and ahead of some pretty good QB's at USC. That's nothing new. If it shakes his confidence, then he's not built to be a good QB anyway. Besides, if Mark's playing bad, it would be really stupid to blame Tebow. Seriously, guys. What's the risk? We get a guy that gets a few snaps per game for a 4th. If he doesn't work, cut him. If he does, great! I don't see how this isn't a good move.
I believe Dallas were pretty successful for a short period back in the day(1962) with alternating QB's but this ultimately caused disharmony. Don Meridith and Eddie Labaron.The quarterbacks also used to alternate plays during every game. I can see this now working in New York............. I am joking of course.
