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In other football news, BillBelichick was spotted at the Bruins spanking of the Penguins. That's football news, right?
I was close, Bill Belichick. I was thissss close to spending an entire NFL season free of Tebowmania, or Tebow Time, or whatever ****ing brand stamp ESPN decides to put on all its coverage of the Jesusback. I was really looking forward to it, too. I was gonna watch every game safe in the knowledge that Tim Tebow and the atmospheric layers of heavenly bull**** surrounding him would be off somewhere in Canada or Australia. I was gonna watch the NFL knowing that, somewhere in Munich, Tim Tebow of the Bayern Blitzkrieg was throwing behind Dieter and Eckhart on their crossing patterns. I was gonna be happy.
BUT YOU HAD TO GO AND **** IT ALL UP.
You and your dip**** offensive coordinator, Josh McDaniels, have singlehandedly extended this Tebow business INDEFINITELY. Ohhhhhh, how I loathe you. I can picture you two engineering the whole scheme from Patriots headquarters:
JOSH MCDANIELS: Tebow is a special player, boss! He GETS it. He fits right in with the PATRIOT WAY of doing business. I'm still a genius for drafting him—it's just that no one realizes it yet!
YOU: GRUMBLE GRUMBLE GRUMBLE I'LL MAKE HIM USEFUL AND THEN I'LL BANG HIS MOM GRUMBLE GRUMBLE.
JIM NANTZ: (busts through the door) Hello, friends. Would either of you care for a civilized, dignified handjob?
I bet you think you're all sooooo clever for signing Tebow. I bet you think you'll get plays out of him that no other organization possibly could. You're just that awesome. It's just like when you thought you could salvage Albert Haynesworth, and that TOTALLY worked out.
That's not really a reason. And if they did manage to make something out of him (for trade fodder even) it would be a big F U to the rest of the NFL in a sense. That alone makes it worth what they invest in the attempt.
I don't think the Pats traded anything for him. I think the Jets just simply released him and the Pats signed him as a free agent.
Tebow's going to get a chance to redshirt for a year. After BB's first press conference, the traveling circus that follows Tebow around is going to dissipate, which is what he needs to happen. And, he'll get a chance to learn from BB, Josh McDaniels, and Brady.
Here's my theory on Tebow. Tebow sucks because he had so much success (and received SO MUCH praise) early on in his college career. I don't think he truly understands the things he isn't good at. It's hard to get better when you've been told by millions of people that you can do no wrong.
Tebow is no better a QB today that he was when he was first drafted - and probably not much better than he was in high school. By comparison, look at how Brady has gotten better over the years. Every offseason, he focused on one area where he knew he was weak - not being strong enough, needing to improve his footwork, needing to stop fumbling the ball. The best players have the self-awareness to know the things that they suck at, and to work specifically on getting better in those areas. I'm not convinced that Tebow has had this level of self-awareness.
So, he gets a chance to keep his mouth shut and learn for a year. Maybe a little mop-up duty. Maybe some reps in preseason. If he shows the humility he professes to have, and if he actually shows some improvement, then in 2014 he's playing QB somewhere else.
In the meantime, as ****ty as Tim Tebow is, you'd feel better with him in there than Mike Kafka, if Brady and Ryan Mallett were to both go down.
Or, maybe they just want him to bring peace and love and tranquility into the life of Rob Gronkowski, to calm him the **** down a little bit on his escapades.
Oh sweet Jesus there is footage of him throwing in a Pats helmet at manditory mini-camp.
I'm hyperventilating.
The Jets didn't get jack@#$% for him. The Patriots signed him to a 2 year contract with no guaranteed money. In other words... If he earns a spot he gets paid. Otherwise, they're out nothing but maybe a little coaching time. It's not like they really need to spend it with Brady after over a decade at this point so it's not like they don't have it to spare. Not only that, it seems as if Tebow could be a good addition to the practice squad since (while he isn't as fast as some) he acts the part of the mobile quarterback the league is transitioning towards. Sure, he can't make the passes of an RG3, Kaep, Newton, etc... But that's only half the battle when running practice. He can do the other half quite effectively giving them more opportunity to practice defenses which I'd consider a pretty major plus.
no red shirts in the nfl man
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