Leave it to Broadway Joe to cut through the bullshit — or, as they say at Joe’s and my alma mater, the U of Alabama — the horseshit. On Piers Morgan last night, Joe had this to say about the mess the Jets have put themselves in regarding Tim Tebow and Mark Sanchez:
“You don’t tell your starting quarterback — who’s played three years, and who’s gradually grown — that he’s the man. Then you bring in somebody right behind him, with an added formation, that they’re going to give teams trouble with? No.”
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What Joe means is that it’s a huge amount of time and trouble to bring another quarterback in just to run the “wildcat” — the play where Tebow is supposed to run the ball in when the Jets get inside the 10-yard line.
Or, say, on third-and-two from midfield.
And Namath raises yet another question that the sportswriters who are praising this move don’t’ seem ot have considered: How much practice time are the Jets going to give to each in camp?
Listen here.
And, finally, Joe is totally correct in his assessment of last season: “The way the Jets have played recently, they need the good Lord on their side …”