Tim Tebow on Boomer’s Criticism: ‘God Bless Him’ By Alex Murashko , Christian Post Reporter

Devout Christian quarterback Tim  Tebow appears to have taken the biblical axiom “turn the other cheek”  (Matthew 5:38, 39) to a new level after former Jets player and current football  analyst Boomer Esiason said the New York team should cut him.

“I’ve heard nothing but great things about Mr. Esiason,” said Tebow, in  comments distributed by the Jets to the media. “I know he was a great player  here, and I just wish him nothing but the best in his announcing and God bless  him.”

Tebow’s response came after Esiason, during his New York radio show on Monday  said, “If I were the Jets . . . I would cut Tim Tebow, I really would. It’s not  in any way, shape or form, I think, benefiting this team.

“All you have to do is watch him throw the ball. I just think this whole  thing, at least from my perspective right now in relation to who Mark Sanchez is – your starting quarterback – is a major mistake.”

It’s not the first time that Esiason has blasted Tebow for his skill sets or  suggested a team should cut him, according to a CBS New York article.

Esiason thought the Denver Broncos should cut Tebow after a game last season  in which he played poorly. The local New York CBS station reported that the  quarterback “got mocked and flat-out rocked. Of course, he went on to lead  Denver to the playoffs and a first-round shocker over Pittsburgh.”

Apparently Esiason took the “other cheek” that Tebow has so masterfully  offered to his critics as an invitation to verbally slap the QB again as a Jets  player.

“You can say whatever you want about Tim Tebow,” said Esiason. “He played  some of the worst football that any quarterback has ever played in the history  of the game last year at times.”

The New King James version of Matthew 5:38, 39 reads: “You have heard that it  was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I tell you not to  resist … But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him  also.”

As for Tebow, he has been on record as saying he has heard all the criticism  and negative outlook about his career before.

“I’ve pretty much heard a lot of it,” Tebow said. “From when I was in high  school, when they said I couldn’t be a high school quarterback, when I was in  college and my first year they told me ‘you’ll never play quarterback,’ and  then, ‘you can never win a championship,’ and ‘you’ll never play in the NFL.’  I’ve heard a lot of it and I just continue to use that as motivation and when I  get my opportunities, try to make the most of them, just be the person that I am  and not let that get me too excited or too down, but just be who I am and go out  there and work as hard as I can every day and try and improve and be the best  football player/quarterback that I can be.”

Tebow has brought extra attention to the Jets summer training camp this year  with many observers speculating as to exactly how the team will be using him in  addition to his backup role to Sanchez.

Jets owner Woody Johnson said he was expecting more media coverage of the  team because of the addition of Tebow, but was astounded by the amount of  intensity, according to The Associated Press.

“I think the enormity of the coverage kind of surprised me a little bit,”  Johnson said during the team’s workout on Tuesday. “Well, I knew there would be  press, there would be interest,” Johnson said, “but even by our standards, this  is pretty amazing.”

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Tim Tebow Responds to Call for Him to ‘Disappear’ From the Media By Christine Thomasos

Tim Tebow, New York Jets backup quarterback who has received as much media attention as the team’s starter, is responding to critics who say he needs to be more tight-lipped around the press.

Tebow, 24, should speak less in front of media personnel according to ESPN analyst Tedy Brushchi, who said the popular backup QB should “disappear.”

“Stop talking to the media so much. You need to disappear, okay, Tim Tebow,” Brushchi said on the network recently. “You’re not the starting quarterback, it’s Mark Sanchez‘s team. I want my voice to come from my head coach and my quarterback — my starting quarterback.”

While Tebow is known for being a devout Christian athlete who has remained positive throughout negative media coverage, he responded to Brushchi’s comments on Wednesday.

“To be honest, I just do what I’m told and, on this day, I’m told to talk to you — so I’m talking to you,”Tebow told reporters while he was at minicamp on Wednesday. “I don’t get paid enough to make all those decisions.”

While Tebow said he had a lot of respect for Bruschi, New England Patriots linebacker turned analyst, he said he thought the ESPN correspondent would be more understanding of the situation.

“I just do what I’m told. That’s something you’d figure (Bruschi) would understand,” Tebow said. “I’m doing what I’m asked to do.”

Since announcing that he was “excited” to join the Jets in March, multiple media headlines have been insinuating that Tebow was in competition with Sanchez for the starting quarterback position. That notion seemed to be most upsetting to Brushci.

“I don’t want all this competition brewing, and every time you speak and anytime you talk about competition or anything like that, you’re twisting things,” the analyst said. “I want one voice. One quarterback, not two.”

However, Jets head coach Rex Ryan stood up for Tebow in light of the criticism he has been receiving.

“Tim is a very popular player, obviously, a popular person. I think that’s a good thing,” Ryan said in an ESPN report. “Everyone wants to focus on the negative. I think it’s a real positive.”

Tebow, who has reportedly gained close to 10 pounds to fit into the Jets’ ground-and-pound offense, will reportedly be worked into the team’s wildcat package more than he will share QB duties with Sanchez.

For Coach Ryan, the added exposure the Jets have received since signing Tebow has yet to become a problem.

“I think he’s a good football player and a heck of a person,” the head coach said in the ESPN report. “I don’t know where that’s a problem for any team, especially for us.”

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‘Bounty’ on Tim Tebow’s Virginity a Form of Prostitution? By Jeff Schapiro

The New Orleans Saints bounty scandal is currently being dealt with by NFL officials, and already another bounty has been issued: $1 million in exchange for proof that Tim Tebow is no longer a virgin.

A controversial website that helps married individuals have affairs, AshleyMadison.com, is offering $1 million to the woman who can prove she has been sexually involved with the New York Jets‘ quarterback.

“I personally thought it was a very offensive publicity stunt…And I think that not only is it insulting to highlight Tim in that way, but I think it’s insulting to all the people who hold to the same conviction that Tim would have,” Esther Fleece, a Focus on the Family spokesperson, told The Christian Post on Wednesday.

Fleece says she first read about the bounty among other sports-related stories on the Internet. But it’s not a sports story, she says, and it is unfair for the media to ask questions about a football player’s sexuality when it has nothing to do with the game or his career.

A press release from Ashley Madison claims that “Tebow has been using his infamy from this year’s football season to get some ladies in the sack.” The company is now seeking proof of its claim by accepting photographs, videos, DNA samples or sworn affidavits from the mothers of the women who claim to have had a sexual encounter with Tebow.

The now 24-year-old Tebow was first asked whether or not he was a virgin at an SEC Media Day press conference three years ago. He said that he was, and it appears that he now has a $1 million target on his back as a result.

“I think there are many people that hold Tim’s view on purity and on abstinence, the difference is we’re not being asked that with a public platform,” said Fleece. “I think it takes an even stronger person to be able to handle the criticism and mocking when you’re in the spotlight like Tim is.”

She believes that, as a result of the Ashley Madison offer, women will begin trying to seduce Tebow in order to get the money. People are often outraged when they hear that politicians have had extramarital affairs, she says, but they should be equally upset over what the company is asking women to do through this offer.

“It’s very serious what Ashley Madison is charging females to do, and I think it’s a form of prostituting themselves,” Fleece said.

She says today’s American culture is “sexually hypercharged,” and those who hold to high standards of purity need to be sure to support one another.

“It’s not surprising, but it’s disheartening, and I certainly would like to see Christians hold to a higher standard and support those who do hold to a higher standard.”

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