Quote:Khan told Gene Smith to consider making an offer for Tebow.  That's a fact.

 

It was reported that the Jaguars made an offer for Tebow, he chose the Jets.

So, to sum it up, your collegiate hero who won a playoff game rejected a better offer from the Jaguars, his hometown team, and wound up failing for the Jets, and you're still obsessing over him even though he's subsequently failed for one and potentially two teams since then. 

 

From my perspective, Khan was a brand new owner who was looking at Tebow as a possible ticket sales draw because fans were urging the team to trade for him, and he ceded to their wishes.  He urged his GM to make an offer, and unbeknownst to Gene Smith, the best move he ever made as the GM of the Jaguars was a failed deal to secure Tim Tebow. 

 

When Shad Khan got another chance to take a bite from the Tebow apple tree, he was singing a different tune.  He deferred to his football people, clearly showing that he was learning as an owner, and saw enough film on Tebow to know that all he'd do is create a controversy here and in the end, fall short of delivering on the cultish hype surrounding him.

 

Caldwell thought he'd put the Tebow mania to rest here in Jacksonville, and for the vast majority, he did.  The Tebow protesters were left without their messiah in teal, and somehow the Jaguars, despite multiple losing seasons, managed to sell more tickets every year without Tebow.

 

At some point you need to face the reality here that Tebow was a great college athlete, but he'll never be anything more than a mediocre NFL QB.  The league keeps trying to tell you this by cutting him, but the message doesn't seem to be getting through.  You keep harping on the playoff win.  John Elway was so bedazzled by that win that he refused to commit to Tebow, and when the time came, he traded him. 

 

It's okay to admire what he did as a collegiate athlete.  He earned that.  It's also okay to accept the fact that his place in the NFL is as a footnote because he won a playoff game like many other mediocre QBs. 

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