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Tim Tebow may be short on interest from NFL teams at the moment, but at least he has plenty of other job offers.

Ron Jaworski, a former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback and current ESPN NFL analyst, says he offered Tebow a job to play for the Philadelphia Soul of the Arena Football League. Jaws is one of the team’s co-owners.

Jaworski told the Philadelphia Daily News that he and the Soul’s coach drew up some plays they sent to Tebow as part of their offer. Most of the plays they had in mind for him reportedly were around the goal line. Jaws says the team was not planning to give Tebow the starting quarterback job, but Jaws thinks some time in the league could be beneficial to the former Jets and Broncos QB.

“One [criticism] of Tebow is that he is slow and methodical,” Jaworski told the Daily News. “He would be forced to quicken it up in this league and it would be good training for him. You can learn a lot in this league. It’s about processing information and getting the ball out . . . or you get whacked.”

No surprise, Tebow has not responded to the offer. The former Heisman Trophy winner is looking to stay in the NFL.

Tebow is good enough to be a backup quarterback in the league, but teams don’t want a backup who’s going to invite a media circus. His chances of getting a gig in the league might be improved if he switched positions, but he does not seem ready to do that. In the meantime, Tebow can continue working with his quarterback coach while contemplating offers from the AFL and Lingerie Football League.

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Tim Tebow is still in search of an NFL job, and many have speculated that the New England Patriots would be a logical destination if he is willing to give up on playing quarterback. Bill Belichick is known for getting the most out of players and showcasing their versatility, so some have wondered if the Patriots could use Tebow as an H-back or tight end.

According to Michael Silver of Yahoo! Sports, that is not going to happen. Citing “organizational sources,” Silver reported on Wednesday that Belichick actually “hates” Tebow as a player and does not feel he could find a use for him. And Tebow is certainly not going to be replacing Tom Brady in certain situations during a game.

“No chance,” a source reportedly told Silver. “Plus they wouldn’t like the circus that comes with it.”

Tebow’s following may have been a positive at one point, but it is now a negative for many teams. It’s not necessarily his fault that fans put up billboards in his honor and consider him to be Jesus himself, but most teams are not willing to deal with those types of shenanigans for a role player.

Josh McDaniels may have fueled the Broncos’ decision to draft Tebow during his short tenure as the head coach in Denver, but Belichick hates distractions. The Jets insist Tebow was not a distraction for the team last season, but we all know what a heaping pile of bull that is. It’s hard to see how the Patriots would benefit from bringing Tebow on board. The fact that Belichick reportedly “hates” him as a player should put the speculation to rest.

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Tim Tebow may have played his last down as a quarterback in the NFL. The New York Jets finally released him last week after an experiment that failed miserably, and the former Florida star cleared waivers as expected. If Hall of Famer Mike Ditka were still coaching, Tebow might have a shot.

In his weekly “4 Downs with Ditka” column in the Chicago Sun-Times on Sunday, Ditka wrote that he would be willing to take a chance on Tebow.

“I think [Tebow] can play quarterback in the NFL, but whatever offense you run might have to be tweaked a bit,” the two-time AP NFL Coach of the Year said, via Adam Jahns of the Sun-Times. “This kid is a talent and he proved it in college. He is an outstanding leader.

“Now, does he have an unusual throwing motion? Yes. But there a lot of quarterbacks that didn’t have a perfect throwing motion. Some of them turned out to be great quarterbacks because they were great leaders. I really do think there’s a place for him. If not at quarterback, I think he could play tight end. If I was in the league and coaching today, I would take a chance on him at quarterback.”

There has been speculation that a coach like Bill Belichick might take a flyer on Tebow and try to use him as a tight end or an H-back. In order for Tebow to succeed as a quarterback in the NFL, some team would have to drastically alter their offense. The type of offense he ran with the Gators is not common at the NFL level, and that likely has a lot to do with the speed of the game.

In believing that Tebow can still play quarterback in the NFL, Ditka is among the very minuscule minority. One legendary quarterback doubts if he would even be able to play quarterback in the CFL. If all else fails, Tebow always has a place as a quarterbacks coach in the Lingerie Football League.

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Tim Tebow was released by the New York Jets and is hoping to sign with a new NFL team. Tebow wants to continue playing quarterback, but many believe his only future in the NFL would be at another position. Some have even suggested that if he wants to continue a professional career at quarterback, he needs to head to the CFL (the Montreal Alouettes held his rights as of December). Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon, who starred in the CFL before coming to the NFL, isn’t sure if Tebow’s passing skills are good enough for the Canadian Football League.

Moon joined 610 Sports Radio in Houston’s “MaD Radio” show with Seth Payne and Mike Meltser on Wednesday and was asked by the hosts whether Tebow could play in the CFL.

“I’m really not sure,” Moon told Payne and Meltser. “You have to be able to throw the ball up there if anything and they throw the ball a lot. There are only three downs so the passing game is much more important up there. You have got to be able to throw it and I think that’s his biggest problem, just being [able] to complete passes, be an accurate passer. I think he’s a really good athlete playing the position but I don’t think that’s enough sometimes.”

Though Moon questions Tebow’s passing, he commended the former Heisman Trophy winner for his work ethic.

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The New York Jets released Tim Tebow on Monday morning, and many are wondering if his days of playing in the NFL are over.

The media buzz Tebow creates is good for some teams, but most of the league would consider him nothing more than a distraction at this point. However, Tebow will not be collecting unemployment unless he chooses to.

If things fall through with the NFL, Tebow still has a home with the Legends Football League, which was formerly known as the Lingerie Football League.

Imagine the things Tebow could do if he combined this offer with the lifetime membership to the Museum of Sex he was given last year. The possibilities are endless. Don’t laugh; those LFL quarterbacks deliver some devastating blows.

Quarterbacks coach Steve Clarkson, who has privately worked with many quarterbacks including Tim Tebow, believes Denver sabotaged the former first-round pick by sending him to New York last year.

Clarkson wrote a post on his Tumblr last month title “The Sabotage Of The Quarterback” in which he implored the NFL to have the Jets trade Tebow to the Jacksonville Jaguars. He went even further on his sabotage theme during a conference call on Wednesday.

“I think he was purposefully sent to New York,” Clarkson said of the trade from Denver, via The Star Ledger. “From the standpoint: you send him to a situation where you have instability with your coach – you don’t know if he’s coming or going. You have a fragile-minded Mark Sanchez at quarterback. You stick Tim Tebow in there and you kill two birds with one stone. So if you’re Denver you’ve got to be thinking ‘We send him to New York we basically kill an opponent and at the same time Tim Tebow doesn’t come back to bite us in the proverbial butt, if you will, because he’s not going to make it out of there.’

“You send him to Jacksonville, all of a sudden he’s got that fanbase behind him and all of a sudden he’s doing what he’s done all his life, that’s win games. That would put a lot of ill-will towards your organization. There is a lot of politics that go on with it. I think Timmy was just unfortunate to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

Clarkson trains Tebow, so it’s no surprise he’s speaking highly of his client. He says that Tebow is working on losing weight to drop some of his bulk in order to gain more athleticism. He also says they have worked on Tebow’s throwing mechanics to lose some of the windmill motion that slows Tebow’s delivery. Clarkson firmly believes that Tebow’s NFL future is as a quarterback.

Though it’s nice that Clarkson is standing up for Tebow, he should first do a little more research on the facts. Broncos executive John Elway said last year that Tebow preferred New York over Jacksonville, so the Broncos traded him there even though the offer from the Jaguars was more enticing. Tebow reportedly felt like he would have a better chance to play quarterback with the Jets and reportedly felt more welcomed by their coaches.

Clarkson’s theory sounds great, but it’s mostly inaccurate.

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What are the New York Jets waiting for? That’s what former NFL quarterback Jeff Garcia and countless others are wondering regarding Tim Tebow. Garcia, who has become a personal mentor for Mark Sanchez, feels that the team is simply distracting Sanchez from reaching his potential by keeping Tebow around.

“If there’s going to be competition at the position, it’s not going to come from Tim Tebow,” Garcia told USA TODAY Sports on Thursday. “Having Tebow there (last season) just became more of a distraction, more of a circus show. Obviously, it’s their decision. But from an outsider looking in, having Tebow there doesn’t bring anything positive. It just brings distraction.

“For Mark, the main competition is going to be with David Garrard and Greg McElroy.”

Last month, Jets GM John Idzik the Jets are keeping Tebow to increase quarterback competition across the board. After what happened last year, we all know Tebow has no shot of earning the Jets starting quarterback job during the offseason. So is he really helping to increase competition?

“When you’re a quarterback, you don’t need artificial competition,” Garcia said. “And it’s not fair to Tim to put him through all that. If there’s a place for Tim that gives him a chance to be a contributor in an offense with another team, let him go be that guy.”

Garcia played under new Jets offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg with the Philadelphia Eagles and San Francisco 49ers. He has been working with Sanchez to teach him how to handle the West Coast offense and says Sanchez has done a “great job” so far. Clearly, Garcia has no reason to believe Tebow is pushing Sanchez to become a better player.

In reality, the Jets are probably holding out to see if they can get some sort of late-round draft pick compensation for Tebow on or around draft day. If that doesn’t happen, they would be stupid to keep him around.