{"id":1883,"date":"2012-12-18T11:57:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T16:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=1883"},"modified":"2012-12-18T11:57:51","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T16:57:51","slug":"new-york-jets-ready-to-make-a-quarterback-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2012\/12\/18\/new-york-jets-ready-to-make-a-quarterback-change\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Jets ready to make a quarterback change?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1884\" alt=\"tebowphoto\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/12\/tebowphoto.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/12\/tebowphoto.jpg 800w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/12\/tebowphoto-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/12\/tebowphoto-50x25.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Is it time to play Tim Tebow, or is Greg McElroy the answer? One could only hope that Rex Ryan and the 6-8 New York Jets are ready to make a quarterback change after last nights devastating 14-10 loss to the Tennessee Titans that took the Jets out of playoff contention.<\/p>\n<p>The Titans intercepted <strong>four passes<\/strong> by struggling Jets QB Mark Sanchez &#8211; winning for the first time in a month. Sanchez has lost five fumbles and thrown 10 interceptions while accounting for four touchdowns in the last seven games. It&#8217;s way past time for a change.<\/p>\n<p>Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMehtaNYDN\/statuses\/281050719451246593\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> that the Jets are expected to do just that. Since the Jets no longer have anything to play for &#8211; who do they start?<\/p>\n<p>The Jets have Tebow who acted as Sanchez&#8217;s backup on Monday night against the Titans or McElroy who replaced Sanchez and led the Jets to a win against Arizona on Dec. 2.<\/p>\n<p>Tebow has primarily operated out of the wild cat formation and been used on special teams this season. McElroy completed 5 of 7 attempts for 27 yards passing and 5 yards rushing in his single game this season.<\/p>\n<p>Either way the Jets will be better off, as they cannot possibly be any worse than Sanchez.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it time to play Tim Tebow, or is Greg McElroy the answer? One could only hope that Rex Ryan and the 6-8 New York Jets are ready to make a quarterback change after last nights devastating 14-10 loss to the Tennessee Titans that took the Jets out of playoff contention. The Titans intercepted four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[30,59],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-1883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-mark-sanchez","8":"tag-tim-tebow"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}