Jets shouldn't diss Tebow's popgun offense

So here are the New York Jets in the week after they were trampled by the New England Patriots and they're already shouting about Tim Tebow(notes).

No team in the NFL talks quite like the Jets, always boasting about Super Bowls and all the defenses they're going to exploit and the offenses they're going to crush. If they gave out Lombardi trophies for hyperbole, coach Rex Ryan would already have one in each hand and a head covered with confetti.

But the Jets, for all their creative defensive schemes, have a poor grasp of when exactly they should be pounding their chests and pointing fingers. And a day before getting on the plane to face the league's most perplexing offense is probably not it. Not after Tom Brady(notes) just shredded New York for 329 yards and three touchdowns on Sunday night.

Still the Jets forge on, tempting a fate that seems too dangerous to touch in Tebow and the Broncos' suddenly mysterious running attack that baffled Kansas City last week.

"Yeah [the option can work] if you have Michael Vick(notes) and, I don't know, Chris Johnson at running back," Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis(notes) told the New York Post on Tuesday. "Yeah it can work. Those are probably the two fastest guys that can probably get out on the edge on you."

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Later Revis said the Denver offense "can get boring" and figured the biggest problem the Jets' secondary would face is "not to fall asleep." That's exactly what Kansas City did Sunday when Tebow lofted a wiggling pass into the hands of a wide-open Eric Decker(notes) for a 56-yard touchdown.

Perhaps Revis is right. It's hard to imagine the Broncos, with their sudden transformation into the 1986 Oklahoma Sooners, running over professional football as Tebow lobs eight passes, completing just two as he did last week. At some point someone is going to stuff Denver's run and force Tebow to throw, and the minute Tebow becomes a pocket passer he is through. His throws are too soft, with too much air and little accuracy. As one quarterback coach who has watched plenty of Tebow tape said recently, "He can't throw at all."

Even Tebow's own coach, John Fox, told NFL.com this week "we can't do that other crap," apparently meaning pass.

But the Jets are in little position to talk. If Sunday's defeat wasn't enough, they have only three days to come up with a plan for Denver, and even given Ryan's ability to design tricky defenses, they will be facing something they have never seen. Three days doesn't give much time to adjust to an offense so unique.

Tebow continues to confound. More than a year into his NFL career and he's impossible to judge. Even with a horrendous 44.8 percent completion rate, he is 3-1 since the Broncos made him a starter this season. Just when you think you have him figured out, when you realize his throwing motion is awful, he turns into an option quarterback. In four games, the Broncos have gone from throwing 59 percent of the time to running 63 percent. And it's worked.

If there is anything Tebow has proven in his brief NFL life it's that nothing is as it seems. And no matter how mediocre a talent he might appear, how much his style seems destined to get him hurt or cast off to the CFL, he creates a new way to win.

This makes him both the easiest and hardest player for an opponent to mock. Nobody who offered so little on the field has seemed so dangerous.

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Not that the Jets seem to care. They stomped around their practice fields for two days this week assuring anyone who asked that 48 hours was all it would take to develop a foolproof plan for stopping Tebow and his running Broncos. Maybe they have found one. After all, most of the league seems convinced that the first good defense Denver plays will crush the Tebow option. Then again, most of the NFL figured Tebow would never start a game after last season and most of the NFL also assured he would be a failure if he ever started again.

Maybe 3-1 is a mirage. Maybe Sunday's victory was some sort of strange magic that will find its end Thursday night. But enough uncertainty exists that the Jets should know better than besiege us with the same old Jets boasts.

Those have a way of thudding to the ground like a Tebow pass into the flat.

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