1. Gene Smith will be out. That's not necessarily a bad thing. You're acting like Gene Smith is some sort of legend or something. He ruined the franchise by drafting Blaine Gabbart.
2. Tim Tebow is 5 times better then both Gabbart and Henne. It's a move that would vastly improve your team.
1. I'm not saying he's a legend, but he is a fine GM. He has helped improve the team. He's improved the defense from a bottom 10 unit the year he took over to the sixth overall defense in the NFL. He's built the offensive line that made Maurice Jones-Drew the NFL's leading rusher in 2011. His whole reputation rides on Blaine Gabbert. While Gabbert didn't look good at all last year, he was the youngest player in the NFL coming into season without having an offseason and was playing for a coaching staff that was on the way out with a horrible receiving corps. I'm going to give Gabbert another year before I pass judgment on him.
2. I failed to see how a third string QB would improve the team.
1. They put fucking tarps on the seats, for fuck sake. Yeah they're struggling to sell tickets.
2. The fact that Tebow wasn't even active for the game (which everyone knew already) kinda kills your argument there about Week 1 2010.
1. They did put tarps. Without the tarps, the seating capacity is almost 77,000 seats, which is just ridiculous for the size of the Jacksonville market. With the tarps, the seating capacity is 67,264, according to ESPN's website. According to Wikipedia, with the tarps on the stadium, EverBank Field still has a higher seating capacity than the following stadiums (cities in parentheses):
CenturyLink Field (Seattle)
Edward Jones Dome (St. Louis)
Raymond James Stadium (Tampa)
Paul Brown Stadium (Cincinnati)
Heinz Field (Pittsburgh)
Ford Field (Detroit)
Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome (Minneapolis)
University of Phonix Stadium (Glendale)
O.co Coliseum (Oakland)
Lucas Oil Stadium (Indianapolis)
Soldier Field (Chicago)
The tarps just reduced the seating capacity to about the average size of an NFL stadium. The tarps didn't make the seating capacity tiny. They reduced the amount of seats to a more appropriate level. According to ESPN's website, the Jaguars had an average of 92.8 percent of seats filled, which means that 92.8 percent of the stadium was occupied on average. That was better than the following teams (percentages in parentheses):
San Diego (91.7)
Cleveland (90)
St. Louis (86.3)
Tampa Bay (86.2)
Buffalo (85.8)
Washington (83.9)
Miami (81)
Cincinnati (75)
So why is it that the Jags are being picked on for bad attendance when there are teams in much worse situations? So, like I originally said, the Jags could be doing better at ticket sales, but it's not like they're struggling.
2. He was active. He ran the ball twice for four yards if my memory serves me correctly. It's not like he would be much more active if he was on the Jaguars roster. The argument people made is that people would buy tickets just to see Tebow, which has been proven false. Believe me, I was there.
So Mike Mularkey, a failed head coach who is an average offensive coordinator doesn't want him, nor does a bad GM.
Good for them, maybe Khan will be smart and get rid of them.
It's not just that. It's just that Khan would have went over the GM's head and would have put potential profit over the best interest in making the team win. I wouldn't have been able to support him on that decision.
I understand that, but he did prove to have success with Denver last year.
His team had success. I refuse to give one player credit for a team winning, especially when Tebow was barely called upon to pass the ball.
All of this is completely pointless now that he's been traded to the Jets. My favorite part of this whole thing is that Tebow had the choice between playing for the Jets or the Jaguars, and he chose the Jets. I wonder how the Tebow cultists here in Jacksonville feel about their hometown hero choosing somewhere else to play. I love it.
I put way too much work into this post.
