The Tim Tebow era with the New York Jets was a complete disaster and now he gets to start fresh with a division rival in New England with the Patriots and after all the shock settled, many realized that it was the perfect destination for the quarterback all along.
One person that feels that way is SI.com writer Peter King, who says that Bill Belichick is the perfect coach to bring Tebow back into the NFL. In his Tuesday column he writes about the Tebow move and also about how the only truly realistic options for him were the Patriots, Green Bay Packers and New Orleans Saints, as they have established quarterbacks and coaches that could handle the media attention and all that comes with signing Tebow.
King writes about having a good quarterback-teaching system as well as fully entrenched quarterbacks and all three teams fit the bill, with Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers and Drew Brees starting at quarterback for those franchises. Tebow now can come in and work hard like he did with the Jets, but now he will be with a team that will play to his strengths and not with one that brought him in to win headlines from the Giants.
The Jets were utterly awful last season and they treated Tebow poorly, making him bulk up and then never using him like they said they would, then complaining when reporters asked why the team didn't use Tebow like they said they would. Belichick plans to use him as a third string quarterback and even if he never makes it onto the field, he will be in a much better position that he was on the Jets and will learn from both Brady and the coaching staff. The reason those three teams fit for the coaches and Tebow is that they all have Super Bowls and have the clout to make a call like that.
Tebow was a distraction in New York, but that was no fault of his own, that was mostly on the Jets staff and now he has the chance to be somewhat low key in New England, which is a place many suspected he could go all along, even with the reports of Belichick hating him. Now the team can stick it to the Jets and there can almost be a guarantee put on that the Pats will give him a touch or two against the Jets just to needle them. Belichick may have been doing the same to the media with the signing, but it is all reward and no risk, as the team signed him to a two-year contract with no guaranteed money anyway.
