By Tex DeVille
Well, lookee who it is. Tex DeVille writing an article? I know, I know, I know. It’s been a few months. What can I say? Life outside of football got in the way of football. I make no excuses; I would just like everyone to stop what he or she is doing and read my article. Is that so much to ask? Ok, ok, I’ll get to the point.
This morning, my NFL updates through texts enraged me. It seems that Mr. Tim Tebow has been released from the Jets. Now, I’m not surprised at this at all. I texted my good friend and associate Dylan once the Jets had drafted Geno Smith joking that this was a move of desperation and that this move officially moves the Jets into full-blown circus mode. I, and anyone else with half of a brain, knew that Tim Tebow’s time was limited as a Jet. It isn’t necessarily THAT the Jets released him. They clearly tried to trade him away and could get nothing. This, in and of itself, depresses and enrages me: that no team in the NFL wanted to invest something in a proven winner like Tebow. However, maybe the Jets were asking too high of a price. I can understand that.
So, the release may have been the only choice. My question is this: why now? Rex Ryan will have at most 16 more games past the Tebow-era. This is a fact that could only be changed by doing something that has eluded the Jets the past couple of years: winning. So, how does Rex Ryan attempt to win? By drafting the “best” QB in the draft, which is kind of like saying that I’m the best QB at the middle school at which I teach. It may be true, but given the competition, who cares? This guy is unpolished at best, and Rex’s idea is that it might… what? Buy you another year as you try to develop a new flash in the pan? Rex is trying to use the “See? We’re rebuilding!!!! Give me another chance, please?” strategy, and the problem is that it won’t work.
Yesterday, the Jets had 6 QBs. SIX!!!! Keep that circus act up so you can at least give the fans something entertaining to watch. The Jets blew it with Revis. Now they’re blowing it with Tebow. Tebow took an average-at-best Broncos team and beat the then-unstoppable-looking Steelers. As I pointed out in my last article in January, Tebow has 1 more playoff win in Denver than Peyton Manning does. So, Rex, if you need to win, WHY ARE YOU GETTING RID OF EVERY WINNER ON YOUR ROSTER?!?!?!?! Now, the release of Tebow was bad enough, but here is Rex’s amazing quote: “Unfortunately, things didn’t work out the way we had hoped.” Wow. Um, may I politely say… WHAT DID YOU FREAKING EXPECT? DID ALL THE FAT YOU LOSE REPLACE YOUR BRAIN? I mean, did you think that Tebow was a magic 8-ball? A horseshoe? A rabbit’s foot? Something that, by virtue of having him on the roster, would give you more wins? Did you think God would smile upon your team just because you traded for a great model of Christianity? Are you stupid?
You know, there is a story about a man in a flood who died because he refused help from humans and expected some miracle to save him. God had sent the humans to save him, but he was too stupid to see God’s providence. Now, I’m not saying God is a Jets fan nor that Tebow is actually a God-send, but you can’t trade for a winner and then bench him. Even in the joking references to the “football gods,” trading for someone to get good karma is stupid. Even in that case, you have to play the player to win. It’s like knowing the Konami cheat code and NOT USING IT!!!!
I am not writing this to say that Tim Tebow is the best QB to ever play. I am not writing this rant because I’m upset that he doesn’t play for the Jets anymore. I personally could not possibly care less about the Jets. However, when you take probably the nicest guy in football, and you waste a year of his time under this lie of possibly being able to start, and THEN you release him and wonder how it didn’t work out, maybe, just maybe, you should take some responsibility for your own disrespectful buffoonery.
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