Mr. Football and All American in high school, Heisman Trophy winner, National Championship at Florida, first round pick in 2010 NFL, now Tim Tebow is one of the most talked about free agents in NFL history and he not even a good quarterback. But it doesn't stop there, American just voted Tebow the most influential athlete in the country. Really.
After getting released from the Jets, everyone is wondering what is next for Tebow?
Former Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka has given Tebow his own vote of confidence.
“I think [Tebow] can play quarterback in the NFL, but whatever offense you run might have to be tweaked a bit," Ditka told the Chicago Sun-Times. "This kid is a talent and he proved it in college. He is an outstanding leader. Now, does he have an unusual throwing motion? Yes. But there a lot of quarterbacks that didn't have a perfect throwing motion. Some of them turned out to be great quarterbacks because they were great leaders."
Ditka did, however, join the refrain of football voices suggesting that Tebow may be better off making a position switch but that's an idea Tebow doesn't seem too interested in entertaining.
"I really do think there's a place for him," Ditka told the paper. "If not at quarterback, I think he could play tight end. If I was in the league and coaching today, I would take a chance on him at quarterback.”
Teams would be interested in Tebow if wanted to play tight end or running back but Tebow wants to play quarterback. And there maybe only one team that Tebow can be a quarterback for and that team is the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Tebow played his high school football in Jacksonville where he was an All American then went onto the University of Florida where he won the Heisman Trophy and a National Championship. So you want think Jacksonville would be the perfect place for Tebow especially when the quarterback situation there is at best below average.
Well I guess it wasn't ideal for Tebow at first because after Denver acquired Peyton Manning, Tebow was going to be trading and Denver gave him the option of where he would like to go the Jets or the Jaguars. Tebow said he didn't want to be traded to the Jacksonville, where he would probably want have got the starting quarterback job, but he wanted to go the Jets and compete against Mark Sanchez.
And we all know how that worked out.
Now Tebow is a free agent and Jacksonville doesn't want nothing to do with him. New Jaguars general manager David Caldwell made it very clear before he was evem released it's not happening.
"I can't imagine a scenario where he would be a Jacksonville Jaguar," Caldwell said at his introductory news conference. "Even if he's released?" one reporter asked. "Even if he's released," Caldwell said.
Funny how things works out. But that's not stopping Jacksonville fans from wanting Tim Tebow as their quarterback. Fans of Tebow sent a petition to the president asking that he step in and make a personal call to Jaguars' general manager David Caldwell and force him to sign the quarterback for the upcoming season.
However, the petition does not just stop there, and the fans will only be satisfied if Tebow is signed and guaranteed a starting place in the team. The petition states that if the fans' demands are met then it will be a dead cert for all home games to be sold out, and that the team will start to win, and most importantly the fans "will be happy."
The petition reads: "Jacksonville Jaguars fans want the team to sign recently released QB Tim Tebow. However, rookie general manager for the Jacksonville Jaguars David Caldwell is blocking this from happening. If the Jaguars sign & START Tebow, home games will be sold out, sales will spike, the team will win and the fans will be happy."
Man Jacksonville fans seem a little too desperate.
If Tebow can't find a NFL job some people say he should the CFL. Really the CFL, that's not going to help because in the CFL the field are wider and it's a throw league even more than the NFL. And we all know Tebow can't throw the football.
Well if football doesn't workout TV maybe a possible many network reportedly would be interesting in Tebow but ESPN already said if Tebow doesn't find a job as a football player they aren't going to let Tebow go to a competitor. Tebow would be a great addiction to ESPN's show "College Gameday".
The Lord will find Tebow a job.
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