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I’m sure the Jets are interested in Tim Tebow. It makes perfect sense when you consider their mindset.
First of all, while building a Super Bowl team is important to them, so is the box office.
Tebow is good for the box office – he’s turned into an iconic American cultural figure.
“We don’t need Tebow,” Antonio Cromartie tweeted. “We sell out every home game let him go to Jacksonville Tampa or Miami.”
The perception is they sell out every game, but it’s not entirely accurate. They might sell enough seats to qualify for an NFL sellout, but still have plenty of club seats available, and luxury boxes.
And the owner, along with Ira Axelrad, aren’t happy about that.
“Our wildcat offense can be run by J. Kerley or Joe McKnight,” tweeted Cromartie.
They can, but neither has the ideal size to do it.
Kerley is good at the wildcat, and did it at TCU, but he’s 185 pounds, and having him run the football, with regularity, is a recipe for disaster. It’s too dangerous.
As for McKnight running the wildcat, I have to be honest, there has never been a lot of conversation around the Jets of him being a “wildcat” guy.
He can do it, but once again, he’s not the ideal size.
This wildcat angle is a big part of the Jets interest in the 6-3. 245-pound Tebow.
As you all know, Tony Sparano loved running the wildcat in Miami, with Ricky Williams and Ronnie Brown. They didn’t do it much last year, but a lot during Sparano’s first three years coaching the Dolphins.
If the Jets want to mix in a wildcat element to their offense to compliment Mark Sanchez, who better than Tebow?
From a wildcard standpoint, this makes perfect sense.
Also, a source of Manish Mehta, thinks Tebow can help the Jets problematic locker room.
Mehta tweeted – “Don’t discount Tebow’s character as a factor in Jets’ interest. Source tells me: ‘He would be an answer to (our) locker room problems.’”
Jets fans can only hope whoever this Jets source is, doesn’t have any power. Because his instincts aren’t very good.
That is just dumb. Tebow is a class act, but he’s not going to magically come into the Jets locker room, wave a magic wand and change the culture.
The big problem in the Jets locker room is Santonio Holmes who is very, very moody. Tebow can’t do anything to change his moodiness.
In fact, Tebow could make Holmes more miserable.
Holmes wants the ball more. He got ticked at Sanchez last year for not getting him more involved.
If the Jets mixed in the Tebow wildcat, that would mean less passes for Holmes.
Plus, if Tebow threw out of the wildcat formation at times, he’s less accurate than Sanchez, and that wouldn’t exactly made Holmes happy.
But the bottom line is this – Tebow would sell tickets, and would be perfect for the wildcat, those two reasons are the driving force behind the Jets interest in the Denver backup.
If the Jets trade for Tebow, what about Drew Stanton?
They would probably tell him – “if Sanchez got hurt, you would be his replacement, and Tebow would stay in the wildcat role.”
