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Tebow instructor slams Sanchez, suggests Tim sent to Jets was conspiracy

Let’s take conspiracy theories for 400, Alex.

On a conference call with reporters yesterday, Steve Clarkson, Tim Tebow’s personal quarterback instructor, said he believes the Broncos traded his client to the Jets last offseason confident Tebow would fail inside the Florham Park big top.

What Clarkson didn’t mention was it was Tebow who chose the Jets over his hometown Jaguars as his landing spot.

“I think he was purposefully sent to New York,” said Clarkson, according to the Star-Ledger. “You send him to a situation where you have instability with your coach. … You have a fragile-minded Mark Sanchez at quarterback. You stick Tim Tebow in there and you kill two birds with one stone.

“So if you’re Denver, you’ve got to be thinking, ‘We send him to New York, we basically kill an opponent and, at the same time, Tim Tebow doesn’t come back to bite us in the proverbial butt.’

“You send him to Jacksonville … he’s got that fan base behind him and all of a sudden, he’s doing what he’s done all his life: That’s win games.”

Last week Jeff Garcia, the former NFL quarterback who is Sanchez’s personal coach, took some swipes at Tebow, who remains with the Jets despite the team’s hopes of trading him.

“They walked him into New York and said, ‘We’ve got four plays for you. You execute these four plays and that’s all you’re going to get,’ ’’ he said. “When you don’t get any meaningful reps and you walk into a game and basically the defense is telling your offensive line basically where the ball is going to go … it doesn’t give you much room for hope.

“I would hope whoever, wherever he ends up that they give him an opportunity, and I think if they do, they’ll be pleasantly surprised. I think the guy still can play.”