Khan on Tebow

Khan would have drafted him in round 3-4 where he belongs.

I think he needs a bit of public spotlight practice. He is certainly not shy about putting himself out there (which I like), but you can tell he hasn’t done it much. He’ll learn to say the right things.

thing that the GM is going to be picking who plays for our team ya know? He could have said that he felt Tim was not right for our team or something. He didn’t need to say he would have for sure drafted him, thats like calling out the GM on making a bad pick.

I transcribed the quotes and will have something up on it around 3. Just FYI

I swear, there’s gotta be a major run on vagisil in this town with all the hurt p____s, especially those that bleed orange and blue.

Its his team he can do or say whatever he wants lol

This was taken from Khan’s interview with another Jacksonville publication Monday morning on his press junket. Please read the entire thing. It’s easier to give a detailed answer to an interviewer for a newspaper than tv.

Would you have drafted University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow (who is QB for the Denver Broncos)?

Yes. This is an issue, by strange coincidence, I was involved in with Wayne a couple of years ago.

I have a very clear bottom-line answer. Absolutely I would have.

Two years ago, I was engaged with the St. Louis Rams and they had the No. 1 draft pick. I talked to Wayne during that time and had shared with him, ‘you should be drafting him’ and I gave him my case for that, which was an athlete like Tim Tebow from Jacksonville comes once a generation. He is going to really connect the Jaguars to Jacksonville and they should do it.

Wayne gave me very logical, very clinical answers on reasons why he wouldn’t do it. I went back to the Rams, their player personnel folks, I said, you’ve got to tell me, if you were Jacksonville, would you be drafting Tim Tebow? They said absolutely not. It was like they were reading from the same script Wayne had read from.

I said, there comes a time where emotion trumps rationality and this, if I was an owner, would be one of those moments for me.

It is a very divisive, polarizing kind of an issue, Tim Tebow.

It’s amazing, I was in Denver that game with San Diego when they were way behind and they finally put him in. I was there with the owners. I saw the whole drama and how the stadium changed and the great success he had.

He could have gone down in flames and I could be sitting here telling you I would have drafted him.

I don’t want it to come off as just a callous remark about second guessing. It’s not that at all.

Well? What does that transcript tell you? Here’s my $.02. He wanted to from a sheer marketing standpoint without all of the information given. He even said that in a later question. In fact, he seemed to go out of his way to namedrop Tebow several times and later made mention of his season ticket holder gaffe. I really wonder if he’s not trying to overcorrect to bring the Gator fans back to the fold.

The folks in the know who have done this for a living said they would not have taken him at that point. It’s all a matter of how much influence he would have in the war room. Would Khan let his football people do their jobs or does he have veto power for any personnel decisions? That is the real question.

To just sell tickets. We would have been screwed if we picked Tebow, no other team in the N.F.L has as much allegiance to a college team as the Jags do to the Gators. SMH

What kind of business man would want the most popular sports athlete in America on his team?

http://frontrow.espn.go.com/2012/01/espn-sports-poll-tim-tebow-is-americas-favorite-active-pro-athlete/

The kind that can afford to buy the Jaguars for sure!