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Tebow released by the Jets

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Hall of Fame
Just announced on Fox News.


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Also ESPN:http://espn.go.com/new-york/nfl/story/_/id/9222870/new-york-jets-cut-tim-tebow-source
 
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Someone will pick him up. He's like a cockroack he'll survive. I'm still mad at him for his lame attempt last year to have dropping to one knee to PRAY COPYRIGHTED as "Tebow-ing". Insofar as what some previous posters have said I'll have to agree No.
 
Teams inquired about him this offseason, but they asked if he would be open to switching positions and he flat out said no. He may reconsider that now, but he seems to care more about being a QB than an NFL player.
 
WolverineFan said:
Teams inquired about him this offseason, but they asked if he would be open to switching positions and he flat out said no. He may reconsider that now, but he seems to care more about being a QB than an NFL player.
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:thinking: Hmmm. Quite the connundrum. On ONE hand, there have been some college players who were asked to switch positions when they arrived in the NFL who wound up succedeing beyond expectations. Dick Butkis was a tight end in College. A coach switched him to defense and made it to the hall of fame. Hines Ward was a quarterback in college and the Steelers turned him into a receiver. He's probably getting into the hall of fame of the first ballot.
While I understand the passion Tebow has for the game and the position he's been playing all this time. The QB I remember who was most dead set on playing QB and refused to become either a receiver or corner was Mr. Warren Moon. He was willing to go to Canada to prove he could play. Despite Vince Evans playing decent ball in Chicago and a rookie Doug Williams taking the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to an NFC championship in his rookie season no one was willing to give Moon a chance straight out of Washington.
Tebow needs to accept the fact that he's no Mr. Warren Moon but if he TRULY loves the game he MIGHT be another Hines Ward or Dick Butkis if he TRULY loves the game he'll take a reassignment in stride and excel.
 
Dread-Head said:
:thinking: Hmmm. Quite the connundrum. On ONE hand, there have been some college players who were asked to switch positions when they arrived in the NFL who wound up succedeing beyond expectations. Dick Butkis was a tight end in College. A coach switched him to defense and made it to the hall of fame. Hines Ward was a quarterback in college and the Steelers turned him into a receiver. He's probably getting into the hall of fame of the first ballot.
While I understand the passion Tebow has for the game and the position he's been playing all this time. The QB I remember who was most dead set on playing QB and refused to become either a receiver or corner was Mr. Warren Moon. He was willing to go to Canada to prove he could play. Despite Vince Evans playing decent ball in Chicago and a rookie Doug Williams taking the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to an NFC championship in his rookie season no one was willing to give Moon a chance straight out of Washington.
Tebow needs to accept the fact that he's no Mr. Warren Moon but if he TRULY loves the game he MIGHT be another Hines Ward or Dick Butkis if he TRULY loves the game he'll take a reassignment in stride and excel.
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While these are nice examples the vast majority of position switches are started out of desparation and end in failure.
 
Why even sign the guy? Just for the circus? Sparano had zero interest in even training the kid. Fukkin' Jets. :mariopalm:
 
Dread-Head said:
:thinking: Hmmm. Quite the connundrum. On ONE hand, there have been some college players who were asked to switch positions when they arrived in the NFL who wound up succedeing beyond expectations. Dick Butkis was a tight end in College. A coach switched him to defense and made it to the hall of fame. Hines Ward was a quarterback in college and the Steelers turned him into a receiver. He's probably getting into the hall of fame of the first ballot.
While I understand the passion Tebow has for the game and the position he's been playing all this time. The QB I remember who was most dead set on playing QB and refused to become either a receiver or corner was Mr. Warren Moon. He was willing to go to Canada to prove he could play. Despite Vince Evans playing decent ball in Chicago and a rookie Doug Williams taking the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to an NFC championship in his rookie season no one was willing to give Moon a chance straight out of Washington.
Tebow needs to accept the fact that he's no Mr. Warren Moon but if he TRULY loves the game he MIGHT be another Hines Ward or Dick Butkis if he TRULY loves the game he'll take a reassignment in stride and excel.
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I hate to burst your bubble, but Dick Butkus was never a tight end in college. While he played a little bit of center at Illinois, he spent the vast majority of his time at linebacker.

Similarly, Ward spent some time playing QB his sophomore season at Georgia, he finished his college career with almost 150 receptions, and almost 2,000 yards receiving, and was hardly turned into a WR by the Steelers.
 
Dread-Head said:
Dick Butkis was a tight end in College. A coach switched him to defense and made it to the hall of fame. Hines Ward was a quarterback in college and the Steelers turned him into a receiver.
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Butkis was a center and linebacker in college. Ward played part-time QB and then split between WR and RB.
 
The only downfall of this for myself....is the constant barrage of Tebow coverage the media's going to put me through the rest of the offseason. Otherwise, I couldn't care less about him as an NFL player.
 
Dude's too stubborn if you ask me

Adam Schefter ‏@AdamSchefter 2h
Jets had granted Tim Tebow permission this off-season to seek a trade. More than one team asked if were willing to play TE, but he was not.
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He should already be in Canada winning Grey Cups. He may not be the prototypical NFL QB, but he is a heck of a football player and seemingly a genuinely good person. Hope he succeeds.
 
Sportscenter = :ant::kingkong::doot::hurrah::hurrah: with how much they are going to drive the "where will Tim Tebow land?" angle of all this into the ground.
 
Mr teX said:
Sportscenter = :ant::kingkong::doot::hurrah::hurrah: with how much they are going to drive the "where will Tim Tebow land?" angle of all this into the ground.
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Dear God you mean I have to listen to Skip Bayless going on about how Tebow is the greatest athlete in the history of mankind?
 
The Pencil Neck said:
Wait, wait.

HEAR ME OUT!

We've got Collin Klein who's basically Tim Tebow-lite, right?

We could ditch Schaub, Yates, and Keenum, and then put Tebow and Klein as our QB and backup.

Oh, yeah, wait.

NO.
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Bad GP impression. Each of your single sentence lines should be at least a full 10 sentence paragraph. Although you did distill the info down to it's core.
 
kingtexan said:
He should already be in Canada winning Grey Cups. He may not be the prototypical NFL QB, but he is a heck of a football player and seemingly a genuinely good person. Hope he succeeds.
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I don't want Tebow anywhere near Ottawa's expansion team next year. Doubt he'll win a Grey Cup... unless he's on the bench like the guy backing up Eli.
 
YESSSSSSSS!

This guy didn't do anything but win! If they won't sign me, they should sign Tim!

~Signed, Six - or - "6"
 
Dread-Head said:
Dear God you mean I have to listen to Skip Bayless going on about how Tebow is the greatest athlete in the history of mankind?
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No.
You don't.
Put some fresh, new batteries in your remote and change the channel.
You can switch over to NFLN where they are broadcasting Manti Te'o coverage
...constantly
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I care as much about Tebow being cut as I do that basketball player coming out of the closet .... None.


Have a good day.
 
The sad thing about all this is the guy really could play in the NFL ..............................if he was willing to change his position to TE...he's that kind of athlete to where he could pull it off.
 
I hope someone gives him a shot. A real shot. Rex had something personal against the kid & was never going to give him a real opportunity.

He might not have been an All-Pro in Denver, but he did enough to win, which is more than Blain Gabbert, or whoever was throwing the ball in KC, or Cleveland.

Or even Phillip Rivers..... No doubt Rivers is a much better QB, but he's not winning & winning is what it's all about.
 
thunderkyss said:
I hope someone gives him a shot. A real shot. Rex had something personal against the kid & was never going to give him a real opportunity.

He might not have been an All-Pro in Denver, but he did enough to win, which is more than Blain Gabbert, or whoever was throwing the ball in KC, or Cleveland.

Or even Phillip Rivers..... No doubt Rivers is a much better QB, but he's not winning & winning is what it's all about.
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I think more of the credit for that needs to go to John Fox and Mike McCoy. They were smart enough to realize exactly what they needed to do to make Tebow successful. They re-designed their offense to highlight the things that Tebow could do and they put him in situations to win.

I don't blame Rex for not doing the same thing. I blame Sparano for not being creative enough. I think Rex expected Sparano to figure out ways to use Tebow and fit him into the offense and Sparano was not up to the task.

But if you're going to bring Tebow in to be your #1 QB, then you've got to create your offense around what he can and can't do. Like the Broncos did. And you've got to devote yourself to that kind of offense (something the Broncos refused to do.) You've got to get someone like a Collin Klein to be his backup. You've got to have a ocuple of QBs that have the same type of skill set.
 
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