Tebow rally fails miserably

The people have spoken.
All dozen of them.
The Monday rally in Jacksonville aimed at pressuring the Jaguars to sign Tim Tebow failed miserably, per multiple accounts.
We predicted the event, which was scheduled to begin at 3:16 p.m. ET on Monday and due to last three hours and 16 minutes, would draw between three and 16 people.  It looks like it did.
It would be fitting if 11 ultimately showed up, which would match the total points the home team has scored this season.
Regardless, the Jaguars weren’t there to even notice.  As Ed Werder of ESPN pointed out on Monday, the team decided to stay on the West Coast for the week between games at Oakland and Seattle.
It doesn’t mean that the nationwide throng of Tebowmaniacs would pipe down if Tebow ends up on a team with a non-franchise starting quarterback.  It does mean that the Jaguars are risking no customer-relations problems by continuing to proceed without Tebow on the team.
The more significant potential customer-relations problems may come from the team’s performance in Week One and Week Two.

Source: PFT.com
Author: Mike Florio
Photo: Anthony J Causi, NYPost.com

Report: Tebow’s camp is privately admitting he’s done in the NFL

The news around Tim Tebow has been quiet since he was cut by the Jets, but it’s been widely assumed that Tebow is still hoping to catch on with some NFL team. The people advising Tebow, however, may have come to the conclusion that there simply isn’t an NFL team willing to give him a shot.
David Fleming writes in ESPN the Magazine that members of Tebow’s camp are privately admitting that his NFL run is probably over.
Although Tebow did have some success as the Broncos’ starting quarterback, leading Denver to a playoff win after the 2011 season, Fleming quotes an unnamed scout as saying that even during his best run with the Broncos, the work he put on tape did nothing for NFL personnel people.
“He’s not a quarterback,” the scout said. “When you look at his run two years ago, when you watch the tape and break it down, he wasn’t really doing anything that impressive. He’s a tough guy, a great leader, a great person. But he isn’t a good enough quarterback to have all the distractions that come with him.”
Among the problems NFL teams have identified about Tebow, according to the report, are that he has a hard time remembering plays, he didn’t run the offense well and got the Broncos flagged for delay of game too often, he struggled to read defenses and he didn’t have the self-awareness to know what he wasn’t doing well and work on improving those issues.
There’s also, obviously, the fundamental issue of passing accuracy: Tebow’s career completion rate of 47.9 percent is way too low, and Fleming describes a scene in Broncos practice in which coach John Fox was aghast to see Tebow throw a pass so badly that it landed on the ground far in front of the intended receiver’s feet.
Add it all up, and no matter how exciting a season he had with the Broncos in 2011, Tebow just doesn’t look like an NFL quarterback. He and the people around him may be coming around to accepting that.

Source: PFT.com
Author: Michael David Smith
Photo: Anthony J Causi, NY Post

Sanchez, Tebow feud keeps percolating

A team that already has had plenty of distractions seems to be on the verge of another one.
Regardless of anything he ever has said, Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez never wanted Tim Tebow on the team.  And now that Sanchez is trying to take advantage of what necessarily is his last chance to save his job in New York, Tebow is still there.  Not because the Jets want Tebow, but because the Jets want to try to trade away the obligation to pay the Broncos $1.53 million this year in salary that was previously paid out to Tebow by his former team.
Still, it’s clear that Sanchez doesn’t want Tebow there, and it’s clear that Tebow doesn’t want to be there.
While both have opted for a passive-aggressive approach, each player has now had a private coach who works with him sound off.  It started with Jeff Garcia, who has been helping teach Sanchez the West Coast offense, calling Tebow a “distraction” whose presence “doesn’t bring anything positive.”  Then, Steve Clarkson, who has been helping Tebow fix his throwing motion, called Sanchez a “fragile-minded quarterback.”
Neither quarterback has rejected the comments.  Which would lead a reasonable mind to believe that the quarterbacks agree with — or, at a minimum, don’t disagree with — the things that have been said.
If neither Sanchez nor Tebow publicly distance themselves from the things said by Garcia and Clarkson, respectively, the possibility exists for their passive-aggressive feud to turn aggressive-aggressive.
So, basically, the other guys working out at the Jets facility should be bringing popcorn to the weight room.

Source: PFT.com
Author: Mike Florio
Photo: Anthony J Causi, NYPost