The Tim Tebow Saga: Part 13445544

There is no in between on Tim Tebow. You either have a massive crush on him, or you want to rip his guts out. That’s pretty much how people feel about me too, although I hear the latter more than I hear the former, which is concerning. In case you’re new to the blog, which I’m assuming you are because about 1.5 people have read it, than you should now I’m on the love side of the Tebow scale. Just watch this video, and get back to me.

            Now watch this if you have ten minutes to spare.

            I’m going to have a daughter and she is going to marry him. Even if he’s 30 or 40 years older.

 Well, the Tebow saga is heating up again, after Peyton Manning signed with the Denver Broncos earlier this week, putting the clamps all the Tebowners in Denver. 24 hours after the signing, Tebow and a 7^th round pick were traded to the New York Jets for a 4^th and 6^th round pick. This, for all intents and purposes, has put Tebowmania on hiatus for the forseeable future, as the Jets already have a starting quarterback in Mark Sanchez. Jets head coach Rex Ryan has already said what the plan is for Tebow:

“Mark is our starting quarterback. There’s no doubt about it. Will we have some things for Tebow each week? Yeah, absolutely. Tim is an outstanding football player. We’ll use him obviously in our Wildcat package.”

I’ll give you a couple minutes to name who the great wildcat football players have been in NFL history… still waiting… Ronnie Brown? Brad Smith? Gary Salazar? Pretty much. Gary Salazar isn’t even a real person. Although both real players are employable (though Brown is still a free agent), they aren’t anywhere close to prominent in the NFL. You can’t tell me Tebow isn’t one of the top 32 quarterbacks in the NFL. He has to be a starting quarterback, and it baffles me as to why the Jets traded for him.

I understand why you would want Mark Sanchez and Tim Tebow on the same team if your were making a GQ all star team, which could be what the Jets are doing. But assuming they’re a functional and competent NFL organization, this trade scratches my head. Does bringing in a backup/wildcat quarterback warrant the loss of a couple late round draft picks, where a lot of hidden gems are found in the draft? The wildcat was more of a fad than William Hung was back in his hay day… Sorry, too soon. Teams have figured out the wildcat and now barely any teams run it more than 2 or 3 times a game. The Jets could try to make him into some H-back type, who they can use as both a full back and a tight end. But those are both new positions for Tebow, and they would be forgetting one thing: Tebow is a good quarterback and they would be wasting a great football player.

I know Tebow struggled last season. In fact he was one of the worst statistical quarterbacks in the NFL. But he did one thing: win. He went 8-5 as a starter, and that means something even though he was luckier than in Full House when Joey won the jackpot in the Lake Tahoe Casino after Michelle pressed the lever on the slot machine. Or was it Stephanie? Even though I just lost all my readers, I’m going to go on.

I watched Tebow at Florida in college. He was spectacular. He was accurate and his passes were thrown well. Admittedly, I never played in the NFL, though I often tell women that. I don’t know all the intricacies of playing professional football and how different it is from college. What I do know is that Tebow knows how to win football games. I know it sounds cliché and like I just spat something back out I heard on Sportscenter, but it’s true. Whenever he’s played he’s won. Against the best college football teams he won, and last season against great NFL teams he won. There’s something to the intagibles he brings to the field, that can’t me measured in stats, Saying that goes against everything I’ve been taught about sports over the years. Maybe I’m just drawn in by the aura of the Tebow, Teammates seem to rally behind him and play up a level when he’s at the helm. And the game against the Steelers in the playoffs he won for the Broncos. He showed how good he can be, how he can carry his team against a solid defense. If a team commits to him long term and puts the right pieces around him, this man will prove he’s a top 10 quarterback in this league.

There you have it. I don’t have any good reason to believe in Tebow. His football play this year has at times looked like a pile of crap that’s aged in the Mohave Desert. He was amazing in college, but there have been plenty of college players that haven’t panned out in then pros. He got extremely lucky last year. But there's something about him I just believe in. The best reason I can come up with is: it’s just Tebow.