With all respect, I'm not so sure about that. Wasn't it because his proselytizing caused problems in the pro locker rooms one of the reasons he didn't hang around? IMHO, this is a smoke screen to 1) sell more tickets, and 2) have someone bigger on the roster to take pressure off Sunshine.
It depends what locker room you are talking about. He certainly divided the Jets locker room. There is a reason Greg McElroy got a NFL start in 2012, and became their #2 quarterback after trading multiple picks for Tebow. Rex Ryan never wanted him, and noone but the owners and Tebow fans wanted him in New York. There are very few on the Jets who speak highly of him. But ultimately he was booted because he sucked. Hell Cutler caused just as much hell in the locker room but was called back from retirement to start at quarterback for a team he never played for
Tebow's pride is what kept him from doing this from the get-go. It was obvious by how slow, deliberate, and fundamentally flawed his throwing was, that he was not going to be a successful NFL quarterback.
Ultimately this maybe the god to honest truth. Rex Ryan tried to use him on special teams but he wouldn’t do it. Then Belichick gets him and him and Daboll tries to teach him how to play TE. But he wouldn’t do it.
Let's see....
it's in John Elway's book.......you know....the John Elway who said coming out of Stanford when he was going to get drafted, "I want to play for a contender."
And it might ALL be true.
And it might also be someone wanting to sell books, too.
I'll concur with the musings about the completely irrational fans who practically worshipped the dude, though. That was unlike anything I've ever seen with one exception...involving many of those same people.
Everyone who worships the guy always points to the 2011 WC game as proof that he belongs and is being black balled by the NFL. But they all fail to accept 3 truths about that one particular game.
1) the Steelers had major injuries to an already bad defense. The Steelers were extremely thin at db and they couldn’t use Ryan Clark because his sickle cell issues prevented him to play at Denver because of the altitude. So the defense was basically Polamalu and Harrison due to injuries. But even then they shut Tebow down all but one play in the 2nd half. It was the 26th pass defense.
2) What happened the next week. Yes Tebow had a great 1st quarter but what about the other 3? It might have been the 2nd easiest playoff game that the Patriots had in the dynasty next to the 2018 Chargers game.
3) He was on an offense that was going to break the single season Touchdown passing record the next year, and one that was competing for 2 Super Bowls the next four years.
I think Tebowmania is the largest part of why people hate the guy. If you can’t see that the guy isn’t a good NFL player then I question what is a bad football player to those folks. I would say guys like Matt Flynn, Byron Leftwich, and AJ mccarron are infinitely better than Tebow and were shut out from full time starting roles way too soon in their career. None of those players had the toxic and rabid fan bases either. Most of the controversial aspects of Tebow come from his fan base and his pro Tebow media personalities that constantly push insane arguments and opinions. It really has nothing much to do with him being Christian or White. It’s the fandom that follows him.