{"id":3311,"date":"2013-04-06T12:04:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T16:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=3311"},"modified":"2013-04-06T12:04:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T16:04:43","slug":"seahawks-browsed-tebow-unlikely-to-acquire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/04\/06\/seahawks-browsed-tebow-unlikely-to-acquire\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks browsed Tebow, unlikely to acquire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/10\/timtebow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-581\" alt=\"timtebow\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/10\/timtebow.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/10\/timtebow.jpg 630w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/10\/timtebow-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Seattle Seahawks are not expected to make a move to add Tim Tebow to the roster. That news is hardly a surprise but that any team actually kicked the tires of acquiring the 25-year-old is news.<\/p>\n<p>Tebow was rarely used after being acquired by the New York Jets last year. The Jets talked about using Tebow in a wildcat formation but his biggest contributions to the team came on special teams as a blocker on punts.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle never made a trade offer and thus as the <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.com\/html\/seahawks\/2020721635_seahawks06.html\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Times<\/a> notes &#8220;Tebow remains with the Jets and is set to make more than $2 million. While the Seahawks did look into acquiring him, he&#8217;s not thought to be a consideration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Seahawks recently traded backup quarterback Matt Flynn to Oakland. That move left the team with only Russell Wilson and Josh Portis on the roster.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Times the Seahawks could take a look at Seneca Wallace, Tyler Thigpen, Brady Quinn or Matt Leinhart now that they have opted against acquiring Tebow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ahawks explored the possibility of acquiring Tim Tebow, but are not expected to pursue him further.<\/p>\n<div>The Seattle Times reported that the Seahawks did &#8220;look into acquiring&#8221; Tebow, but he&#8217;s no longer thought to be a consideration. With Matt Flynn dealt to Oakland, Seattle is left only with newly signed Josh Portis as Russell Wilson&#8217;s backup. The Times named Seneca Wallace, Tyler Thigpen, Brady Quinn, and Matt Leinart as candidates to back up Wilson. Wallace and Thigpen are the likeliest fits.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Seahawks are not expected to make a move to add Tim Tebow to the roster. That news is hardly a surprise but that any team actually kicked the tires of acquiring the 25-year-old is news. Tebow was rarely used after being acquired by the New York Jets last year. The Jets talked about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[158,59],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-3311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-seattle-seahawks","tag-tim-tebow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3311"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}