If the Jaguars have a genuine interest in drafting quarterback Tim Tebow next April, we suddenly have a better understanding as to why the team can’t sell out its stadium and/or put together consecutive winning seasons.
Earlier this year, team owner Wayne Weaver committed the cardinal sin of pre-draft strategy — he tipped his hand.
Now, Florida governor Charlie Crist is getting in on the act. Crist said Monday that he has spoken with Weaver regarding the connection between picking Tebow and selling out the team’s home games.
If the Jags don’t want Tebow, they’re doing great job of setting up a smokescreen. But we tend to think that the interest in Tebow is genuine, and that the message to whoever else might covet Tebow is clear: if you want Tebow, you need to get at least one spot in front of the Jaguars.
The best strategy if the Jaguars want to get Tebow? Say nothing. Better yet, start spreading the word privately that you’ve completed your evaluation, and that you’ve decided you don’t want him, after all.
The pre-draft process requires a high degree of discretion. And it’s hard to be discreet when the only obstacle to loose lips is the saliva bubbling over them.
Charlie, don’t you have more important things to do, like perhaps running our state? Marco Rubio 2010.
That’s funny because the NFL wants to see Jacksonville in LA.
If the rumors about Gov. Crist are true, that would explain his fatuation with a young, well built, white athlete of the male persuasion.
‘Wayner Weaver’? That sounds like a Ned Flanders curse word.
Yes, I know the word is INfatuation. My bad
I hope the jags take tebow!……….. In the 6th round!
I hope he go’s to the jags, and not any other team. He stinks.
FLorio – your such a douche bag. But I read your writing to see what kind of hatred you can slip in their for the Jags
`If the Jaguars have a genuine interest in drafting quarterback Tim Tebow next April, we suddenly have a better understanding as to why the team can’t sell out its stadium and/or put together consecutive winning seasons.`
And a story about Tebow and the Jags putting together consecutive winning seasons relate.. how? Your douche bag.
Maybe they are just trying to get Brad Childress to draft him.
I’m surprised you didn’t go with “Crist wants to see Tebow in Jacksonville” for your headline.
The Los Angeles Jaguars will DOMINATE!!
The Jags will eventually move to LA and the NFL will switch the Jags and Chiefs into their respective divisions!! LOOK for the LA Jags in the AFC WEST!! HELLLLLLLLLLLL YEAH!!!
Tebow isn’t an NFL QB. There is no competent organization that will draft him in the first round. He’ll go to a team like the Redskins or Raiders; teams with inept owners/GMs.
The Jags aren’t the model franchise but they aren’t down in the class of the Skins and Raiders.
# mike says: December 7, 2009 8:11 PM
The Los Angeles Jaguars will DOMINATE!!
The Jags will eventually move to LA and the NFL will switch the Jags and Chiefs into their respective divisions!! LOOK for the LA Jags in the AFC WEST!! HELLLLLLLLLLLL YEAH!!!
Or the LA Vikings. Put them into the NFC west and put the Rams in the Norris. LA can reunite the Lakers and Vikes. Oh nevermind!
The Cowboys should be in the South and the Panthers in the East………drumroll
In the Jaguars present position, they would be crazy not to go after tebow. tipping their hand or not, they should be ready to do about anything to get tebow.
he also wants to see the jaguars in jacksonville next year.
“but you cant, always get, what you waaaaaaant”
Greg Jones is a good enough fullback, no need to draft a crybaby to replace him
I just love all of these expert bloggers who just KNOW Tebow has no chance in the NFL when many real football experts say he will. Dungy would draft him 1st overall and Gruden says he will revolutionize football. But I do realize you turds know better.
If Tebow is going to sell all these tickets and make all this money for Jacksonville, maybe Miami takes him instead. Keeps him in the state of Florida and on a team that actually has the packages in place to use him. Doubt they’d actually do it given the fact that they already have Henne and Pat White plus they traded for Thigpen.
No, no, no…Cleveland’s Mangenius will draft Tebow in the 1st round and then trade him to the Jags for a 6th round pick and a couple of players they were going to cut anyway. Mangenius then gets promoted to GM.
The Lerner family isn’t stupid. They only bought into the Browns franchise to get into the NFL. Now, with the low attendance guaranteed, they will have the justification to move them to LA. (The Jaguars will move to Las Vegas.)
The Bengals will then move to Columbus, claim all of Ohio in the name of Paul Brown, and get a new stadium out of the deal. This would also benefit the Colts, Lions and Steelers, market wise.
It’s all economics people, and Cleveland & Cincinnati are no longer major league cities.
You now know why Charlie Crist will be a one term governor.
Sure, I’d take Tebow if I were the Jaguars. 4th round or later, and he’d be a linebacker.
Hey, they could hire Urban to coach so he and Tebone can keep their bromance going in a more open fashion. Timmy could weep openly each week and stay in Florida… it all makes sense now