Jags owner says Tebow wasn't interested in Jacksonville

Posted by Mike Florio on March 26, 2012, 3:15 PM EDT

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So much for the Fourth Commandment.

Last week, Tim Tebow said he had no say in his post-Denver destination.  On Monday, he admitted that he had input, but that he was fine with going to the Jets or the Jaguars.

Jaguars owner Shahid Khan says otherwise.

“He didn’t want to come, obviously,” Khan said Monday, via Tania Ganguli of the Florida Times-Union.  “Any one of the 53 players we have, have to be committed to Jacksonville, making us be the best team we are.  The question was:  Did he want to come?  And if the decision had been taken out [of his hands] and we got him, that would not be good for him, or for us.”

Parcels to coach the Saints?

Posted by Mike Florio on March 26, 2012, 2:23 PM EDT

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Monday’s revelation that Saints coach Sean Payton has asked one of his mentors, Bill Parcells, to take the wheel for roughly 10 months (or maybe only nine months), seemed surprising at first.  One further review, it makes plenty of sense.

Payton’s smart enough to know that, if an in-house assistant coach thrives as the interim head coach, owner Tom Benson could decide at the end of the 2012 season to give the whistle permanently to whoever leads the team through the coming minefield.

Rex Ryan: Tebow will be a major contributor

Posted by Mike Florio on March 25, 2012, 8:05 PM EDT

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So why are the Jets making such a big deal about the arrival of a backup quarterback?  Because this backup quarterback isn’t the usual backup quarterback.

Apart from the fact that the backup quarterback isTim Tebow, the backup quarterback will be playing.  A lot.  According to head coach Rex Ryan, the backup quarterback could be on the field for up to 20 snaps per game.

“Tim is going to be a major contributor to our football team,” Ryan told NFL Network on Sunday.  “With the Wildcat specifically, the great thing is you don’t know if we’re going to run it one snap a game or 20 snaps a game — you have no idea.  Every week it could be different.  That’s some of the preparation problems he gives you.”

Chad Ochocino has "unfinished business" in New England

Posted by Mike Florio on March 25, 2012, 7:40 PM EDT

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Less than nine months after joining the Patriots, receiver Chad Ochocinco is ready to kiss the baby.

If “kissing the baby” is a good thing.  (I can’t keep up with these new sayings.)

Fresh from a restructuring that chopped Ochocinco’s pay for 2012 from $3 million to $1 million, agent Drew Rosenhaus told Ian Rapoport of the Boston Herald that Ochocinco still has work to do in New England.