The New York Jets made a game of it when the Houston Texans came to town to play a Monday Night Football game in week five. Even the best online betting sites were predicting a blowout by the Texans in this game, but it did not come to pass. The Jets lost the game by a score of 23-17, but there is more to it than that. It is not the fact that the Jets lost the game, it is the fact that head coach Rex Ryan continues to make excuses as to why he keeps putting Mark Sanchez at the top of the quarterback depth chart.
There are very online football betting experts that will say that Tim Tebow is a good quarterback. Tebow’s timing is terrible and he has a hard time having his passes accurately hit the ground, much less his receiver’s hands. But, because the Jets decided to create a circus by bringing Tebow in during the offseason, the Jets fans have decided to play along and create a quarterback controversy. The only problem for the Jets’ coaching staff is that, in this instance, the fans may be right.
It would take a fantastically bad quarterback to make Tim Tebow look like a step up, and Mark Sanchez is just the guy for the job. In the first four games of the season, Sanchez has completed 49.4 percent of his passes and he has thrown six touchdowns to be matched by six interceptions. But with Sanchez, the stats do not always tell the whole story. Mark Sanchez could throw for 400 yards in the first three quarters of a game and then find ways to lose the game in the fourth quarter.
Against the Texans on Monday night, Sanchez threw bad pass after bad pass in the fourth quarter until the Texans were able to finally put the game away. One of Sanchez’ passes was tipped by J.J. Watts, and that cannot be laid on Sanchez. But his other interception was a ball thrown behind his receiver and wound up in the hands of the Texans’ secondary.
Tebow actually looked like a winning quarterback on Monday night. The price per head sports experts are more than willing to concede that Tebow was only in for a handful of downs in the game, but he made them count. Tebow threw a perfect spiral that was dropped and made a key run in the game that started to get the Jets riled up. As soon as Tebow came out of the game, the energy level dropped.
The bet online experts know that Tim Tebow is not the next Joe Namath. But if Mark Sanchez continues to make Tebow look good, then Rex Ryan is going to have no choice but to put Tebow in as the starter and see if that Tebow magic can make a comeback.
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