Tony Sparano: Tim Tebow package has 15 plays
Tony Sparano and Tim Tebow take in the action from the Jets bench during a game against the Buffalo Bills at MetLife Stadium. (Sept. 9, 2012) Credit: David Pokress
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- Tony Sparano said the "Tebow package" consists of 15 plays, kept on a separate call sheet each week. That may come as a surprise, considering the backup quarterback averages about seven offensive snaps per game.
"Sometimes that package is a little bit bigger and sometimes it's a shade smaller," Sparano said Thursday. "But you get into some games -- Indianapolis, New England -- where we were running it pretty good. At the same time, you get into games like the [Oct. 28] Miami game where we had to be in up tempo for a large portion of the time . . . That's not a place to be shuffling people in and out at that point."
So the Jets are stuck between a rock and a hard place: unwilling to use Tebow if the running game is on a roll and unable to use him if they're trailing and need to rely on the passing attack.
