Tebow acquisition produces strong reactions

The Jets' acquisition of Tim Tebow still had the sports world buzzing Thursday, sparking some strong opinions.

Count Ray Lucas among those who think it was a bad idea, particularly because he thinks Mark Sanchez isn't going to benefit one bit from Tebow's presence.

"This move makes no sense to me whatsoever," former Jets quarterback Lucas, who's now an analyst for SNY, said on WFAN.

"You are talking about a guy who didn't play well last year, got a contract extension and basically as a quarterback, what you want to do this season is get him in a rhythm. You want him to feel comfortable, get on the same page with his wide receivers.

"You are going to tell me this guy is going to get comfortable when every third-down-and-short, they are going to pull him out or put him at wide receiver and then put Tebow in? There's no possible way he can get a rhythm."

Lucas also thought the Jets could have been better served by using the compensation they gave the Broncos in exchange for Tebow to improve their own roster. The Jets sent the Broncos fourth- and sixth-round picks, and $2.5 million to pay off part of the salary Denver advanced to Tebow.

"I can see a right tackle coming in," Lucas said, " I can see O-line depth coming in, a wide receiver. This move makes no sense to me whatsoever."

That's also the way former Jets nose tackle Kris Jenkins feels.

"It was a very, very bad call on their part to bring somebody in who already has a pretty huge following, already has a pretty huge spotlight on him," Jenkins, also an SNY analyst, said on WFAN. "You already have a fragile locker room where it kind of seems like that's one of the biggest issues there."

Jenkins believes a quarterback controversy will begin brewing at some point.

"Let's be honest," he said. "When he was in Denver, one of the things that he voiced about him being upset was the fact that he wasn't starting. He felt that coming into the NFL, he wanted to be a starter. So he's going to have that type of intensity and intentions when he comes in the locker room. I don't know that is going to be able to mesh with Sanchez.

"I think that's a recipe for disaster in the quarterback meeting room. It's going to be a recipe for disaster in the locker room. It's going to really shake it down."

At least one person is glad to see Tebow on board: Darrelle Revis.

"Also wanna say," the All-Pro Jets cornerback wrote on Twitter, "I'm lookin forward to having @timtebow as a teammate."