Tim Tebow? The new Christian gentleman of sport?
In New York? The ultimate "What have you done for me lately?" town?
It's not going to be like Jeremy Lin: As popular as Lin has gotten, he's not The Man on the Knicks. Carmelo Anthony is. He's not even the man The Man counts on. That's Amare Stoudemire. If Lin has a bad game, so what? There are two All-Stars who can pick up the slack.
In football, if the quarterback has a bad game, the team usually loses, and the quarterback gets raked over the coals.
Putting Tebow in New York will be like putting a 2-month-old kitten in a junkyard. With a junkyard dog. And I don't mean Hercules from The Sandlot, either: I mean "The Beast" that Smalls and the gang thought Hercules was!
Of course, that film had a character nicknamed "Benny the Jet" -- and it took place in 1962, long before Reginald Dwight become Elton John, let alone recorded "Bennie and the Jets."
Buh buh buh Bennie and the Jetssssssss. Dink, dink, did-ink, DONK!
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I don't get it. Why are the Jets getting Tebow? There are a lot of teams that need a good quarterback, but the Jets aren't one of them. They have Mark Sanchez.
Is this move supposed to scare Sanchez into fighting for his job? A fat guy who can't throw? Is going to intimdate a USC quarterback? Who took the ever-lovin' New York Jets, of all teams, to 2 AFC title games? Who's already beaten Peyton Manning in Indianapolis, Philip Rivers in San Diego, AND Tom Brady in Foxboro? All in January? Okay, he hasn't beaten Ben Roethlisberger in Pittsburgh in January yet... But neither has Tebow. And Sanchez has beaten Brady in Foxboro in January. Tebow hasn't done that in any month.
Yes, yes, I know: Tebow has beaten Sanchez and the Jets in December. Well, guess what: Tebow is on the Jets now, and if he plays against the Denver Broncos, he won't be opposing Tim Tebow. He'll be opposing Peyton Manning.
In today's Washington Post, Tracee Hamilton titled her column, "Tim Tebow and the Jets: What could possibly go wrong?"
It's the Jets. It's Murphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong, will.
UDPATE: Tim Tebow played in 15 games for the New York Jets in the 2012 season. He started 2: A 30-9 loss to the Miami Dolphins at MetLife Stadium, and a 28-7 road loss to the Seattle Seahawks. He threw 8 passes. He completed 6, for 39 yards, an average of 6.5 yards per pass. There was 2 that went for 1st downs. No touchdowns, but no interceptions, either. He was injured in the Seattle game.
Hang down your head, Tim Tebow.
Hang down your head and cry.
Hang down your head, Tim Tebow.
With you, the Jets won't fly.
He was 25 years and 3 months old in that game. Through the 2020 NFL season, he has never played another regular-season professional football game. He played preseason games in 2013 with the New England Patriots and 2015 with the Philadelphia Eagles, but was cut before the regular season started each time.
He has played professional baseball, playing 5 seasons in the New York Mets system, rising to Class AAA before washing out with a .163 batting average for the 2019 Syracuse Mets. And he has been a studio analyst for college football games, something he actually is qualified for.
For the 2021 NFL season, he has signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars, whose head coach is Urban Meyer, who had been his head coach at the University of Florida. But he's been signed to play tight end, not quarterback. Stay tuned.
Great comment about Tim Tebow being the two month old kitten in a junkyard. This move baffles me. I think its going to turn out disasterous for all involved.
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