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GamePlan: Why the Jaguars Are Taking a Chance on Tim Tebow, Given the Potential Risk and Reward

Let me start here: The intentions of the Jaguars, their new coach and football czar Urban Meyer and newest player, tight-end prospect Tim Tebow, are good.

All of us on the outside can make it something else. A circus. A farce. Whatever.

I can say with certainty neither Meyer nor Tebow is approaching this with the intention of it being anything approximating that. The Jaguars staff allotted seven spots for tight ends on the 90-man roster and were carrying just five coming out of the draft. They also earmarked the spot, off film, as a weakness to work on early in the offseason and have gotten faster and stronger there since.