Posted on 01/11/2013 5:39:45 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
Blaine Gabbert will be part of the Jaguars’ quarterback competition next summer. Tim Tebow will not.
That was the word from the Jaguars new general manager Dave Caldwell, who has been given by a free hand by owner Shad Khan to make all football decisions. Caldwell was introduced to the media on Thursday and when asked about Tebow, closed the door on bringing in the Jacksonville native.
“As far as Tim goes, he is a member of the New York Jets. I can’t imagine a scenario where he would be a Jacksonville Jaguar,’’ he said. When asked to repeat that statement, he did.
Caldwell was then asked if that meant even if Tebow is released by the Jets. “Even if he is released,’’ Caldwell replied. “I have others in mind and I’m comfortable with what’s here.’’
That should end the seemingly endless speculation that Tebow was going to wind up playing for his hometown team. ESPN even reported recently that it was a “virtual certainty’’ that Tebow would be playing for the Jaguars next season.I
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>> “Thanks for straightening me out...” <<
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The turkey really seems to believe that he is “straightening us out.” - And he will assure each of us the we are the only one that isn’t buying his crap.
Out.
Except the W-L Orton’s stats with that offense were much better too. But the defense gave up tons of points. Had the defense allowed the same general lack of scoring for Orton they did for Tebow (15 points less) Tim would have never started because Orton is I think 4-1 (maybe 3-2) instead of 1-4.
I don’t straighten anybody out. I discuss facts. Straightening is for shrinks, counselors and bartenders. I’m QA, I deal in facts, usually of the negative kind.
You on the other hand deal in insults. Why are you so desperate for a flame war? Will that improve your self image? See a shrink for that.
That’s what you keep saying, and yet here you are.
Well if you want to continue making yourself look silly (again) on a topic you clearly know absolutely nothing about, I guess no one can stop you. Just understand that it is completely obvious that you don’t know the first thing about the NFL and every time you post in this thread you just make that much more a fool of yourself.
Okay, you were correct on the other points. I’m in agreement with you on their local support size. Jax is so spread out. I lived 12 miles south of NAS Jax. That was a long ride home from the stadium. I’d rather watch the game with friends and have some beer.
I re-read my post and realize I probably sounded like a jerk...sorry about that. It wasn’t my intention.
You’re the last person on earth that would have any grasp of what anyone else knows.
Down here in Tampa several years ago my kids were attending Armwood High School, which had a "spooky good" football team that went all the way to the state finals ... totally streamrolling every team in their path.
That was until the Armwood Hawks ran up on a team with some unknown quarterback named "Tim Tebow" ... that was the year that "The Mighty Casey" stuck out! (He handed our butts to us).
We've been Tebow fans (now as much fans of the man as the football player) every since! :)
Can he block? The Cardinals could probably use him in the offensive front line.
Many people wrongly attribute the the move of both the Raiders and Rams from the LA market to sagging fan support but the truth is both relocations were totally driven by the desire for stadium improvements which were not forthcoming. The main improvements sought were luxury boxes and the additional revenue they bring in.
Al Davis' moved out of Oakland was done for the same reason in the first place. While it's true that the Raiders attendance had been falling in Los Angeles as Al Davis began the long march toward senility and the team began to decline, the fact is that the attendance in 1994 was only 626 less per game on average than the following season back in Oakland. This after four years of Davis threatening to move the team.
I don't know where you got that figure for the crowd at the last game in LA, but the fact is that the Raiders’ last crowd in LA was 64,130, more than the capacity of Oakland Coliseum TODAY.
As for the Rams, their last season playing in Anaheim drew an average of 42,312 per game. Four years before that they were averaging almost 60,000.
Compare that to the Cardinals last year in St. Louis, when they averaged 28,000. The last game drew 39,147 to the Big A.
Georgia had planned to move to St. Louis all along, since she was from Missouri originally, though of course she kept her place in Newport Beach. In fact the Rams front office conducted sham negotiations with Baltimore to hide the fact they were really talking in earnest to St Louis, where the city fathers opened the treasury for the pleasure of Madame Ram.
Since the move both teams have suffered declining attendance as the years went on. It was so bad in Oakland that a couple of years ago the smallest crowd since the AFL days came out, 32,218 to see them lose to the Texans in 2010. They have since seem a resurgence, but on average the crowds in Oakland have been comparable to those in LA.
Of course Georgia never had to worry about fan support after the move, since for years the city of St Louis bought any unsold tickets. But as a fiscal conservative you support the politicians in So Cal who refused to give welfare to rich NFL owners, right?
As you say, this discussion was some time ago so I have little recollection of where it was going at that time. I did get that stat from the internet about the last attendance, it may have been for the Rams, I don’t know now.
I know the move of both teams had to do with fan support, perhaps more so for the Raiders than the Rams but it played a part in each.
Living near Oakland during the 80s, Davis move from there to LA was hardly a surprise.
Aside from that, I don’t have much to add to your commentary.
As the numbers show, fan support was a secondary issue. It was much more about stadium revenue. If the fans in SoCal were so bad Al agreed to the Irwindale idea.
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