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| Even the refs were caught laughing, pointing and totally forgetting about Tim Tebow this season. |
6-10. It's an ugly record, one cannot doubt. It probably meant that your team either:
A: Got destroyed by all the good teams and won big against a few cupcakes.
B: Wasn't good enough to beat that many teams, but hung around in enough of them to be a couple field goals away from 10-6.
C: Whatever the Jets did this season.
I wrote before this season that the Jets' circus needed to be shut down. That the shenanigans in MetLife Stadium had lost its place among the New York, except among New York Post writers and cover creating geniuses. To them it's the wilder the news, the better. Anyways, the Jets were beyond wild off the field, sometimes wild on the field and most of the time just down right ugly by mid-afternoon on Sundays on the field. Despite the porous record, the potential end of Mark Sanchez's career (thanks butt fumble) and the turmoil in the front office, there is one shining light to the Jets season. They just annihilated everything Tim Tebow had going for him.
Let's settle this now, Tim Tebow is not an NFL quarterback. He cannot throw, he cannot run an offense and his decision making is impeccably bad. You don't need to watch him in a real NFL game to grasp his inadequacies in the backfield. That's why the Jets never gave him a chance. Originally, they brought him in to be a specialist, a curveball to the ground and pound game. Maybe they even acquired Football Jesus Jr. to light a fire underneath a struggling Mark Sanchez. However, they quickly realized that this man has no qualifications to be under center. Even Tony Sparano, who proved his own inabilities this season, realized that watching that lefty sling sputtering pigeons eight yards down field was enough to warrant only eight pass attempts (surprisingly six of which he completed). After Ryan and Sparano agreed that this man has no right behind the center, they eventually grew viciously tired of him and just shut him out. Their new goal by midseason was to make Tim Tebow as middling of a sports subject as possible and despite multiple attempts by the New York Post to bring him back into the limelight, the Jets succeeded. Tebow had 32 rush attempts for a scintillating 3.2 yards per carry average and six completions for a mind-boggling 39 yards (no INTs!!!!). By season's end, Tebow was crying out for attention by reportedly asking to be left out of the wildcat formation. He of course denied, but that moment there meant that the Jets won and he was waving his white flag.
With wobbly-pass-lefty Jesus out the door in New York, the Jaguars were poised to bring him in. Obviously he would fit perfectly with the heavily religious ties in Northern Florida. The Jags wouldn't mind another 2-14 season as long as they were selling out seats to those excited to watch Tebow's 36.4 passer rating and rousing
I will say two small things in response to Tebow's magical 9-7 run to the AFC Divisional Playoffs that you're all probably thinking about. One, look what happened when they played the Patriots in the next game (far superior team to the Steelers as we saw this year) on the road: a 45-10 shellacking, if you magically forgot. Two, Peyton Manning (a truly fantastic quarterback) has led that same Broncos team to a 13-3 record and into serious contention for the franchises third Super Bowl. Simply put, Tebow was carried by a stellar Broncos defense, running game, talented wide receivers and a once-in-a-lifetime season of luck.
Truthfully all the credit goes to the New York Jets organization. They refused to let Tebow dominate the headlines even with their real quarterback having his own on-the-field struggles. Horrendous mechanics Jesus has been cut down to size these days and hopefully his career at quarterback has come to a screeching halt, forever. It was the one true success of the 2012 New York Jets season and for that I thank them tenfold.
We're not in Gainesville anymore it's-really-red-paint-all-over-my-jersey Jesus.
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