Trading for Tim Tebow was a mistake, former Jets GM now says

He didn’t do well compared to other QBs. His completion percentage is below 50, in most of his games he threw less than 10 passes, he lost the 3 last games of the regular season (all “win and you’re in”) and only managed to get in the playoffs on tie-breakers. The Jets wanted him so badly because they were dumb and bought into the cult and not the stats. They refused to play him because once they saw him on the practice field they realized the truth of the stats and that illusion of the cult. He never actually played well. If anybody wanted to ruin his career they just needed to leave him in Denver where he’d NEVER replace Manning. I don’t think anybody really thought Sanchez played well, he had those first 2 seasons of getting to the conference finals but only by ever being a game manager, which is part of why they were looking to other options. You don’t need sportwriters to tell you Tebow’s mechanics are poor, there’s enough game footage of his lame ducks hitting the ground 5 yards from away from anybody to figure it out all by yourself. Apparently they do know jack#$%^ because all of the predictions of Tebow’s failure at the NFL level came true. Geno Smith’s completion percentage is higher than Tebow’s.

Tannenbaum and Elway ruined his career, IMO.

They didn't ruin his career, they simply used him until Manning became healthy knowing they were going to sign him.

Tebow WILL return to the NFL........

The great and powerful talent scout doodledawg has declared that heisman trophy winning national champion(twice) tebow has no talent.

While I pride myself on my knowledge of football, it is not I that have judged Tebow lacking in the talent necessary to be an NFL quarterback. It was the 32 pro teams that did that.

Explain why he was doing well(compared to other QB’s) and then the Jets wanted him so bad but refused to play him.

If he was doing all that great then Denver would never have traded him.

Who would do that except to ruin the man’s career?

Why would the Jets spend all that money for the sole purpose of ruining his career?

They don’t know Jack $hit.

So it is your position that there are 32 GMs and coaching staffs out there that don't know Jack $hit about talent or football?

Exactly.

The NFL cares about $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$, if Tebow wasn’t AWFUL at throwing the ball in an NFL offense and was instead SUPER DUPER as his fan club claims then no team would give 2 shites what his personal beliefs were.

Plenty of great college players don’t have the skillset to play the same position in the pros, no shame in that. The excuse making on this tread is really pathetic and irrational.

Even with the wins this yr...if the Broncos lose Sunday...they have lost $50 million switching Tebow w Manning.

So now that the Broncos are going to the Super Bowl then do you think their fans think Manning was worth the investment?

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