Tim Tebow Trade Rumors: Why Tim Terrific Won't Save Jets' Sinking Locker Room

Tim Tebow is on the trade market, and the New York Jets are reportedly in the mix for the polarizing quarterback.

Of course the Jets would love to get in on a player like Tebow. Rex Ryan wants headlines as much as he wants to win, but there has to be a line drawn somewhere. And adding Tebow to the mix would be a disaster for the franchise. 

The team just committed three years to Mark Sanchez when fans were begging them to go after Peyton Manning. 

Now they want to go after Tebow, but for what purpose?

The second that Sanchez makes a mistake, the fans are going to be up in arms begging for Tebow to be inserted in the lineup. More important than that, the locker room, which has already shown signs of dissension, would be even more fractured because Tebow would always be right on Sanchez's coattails. 

There would be more anonymous quotes about what's wrong with Sanchez, why the Jets can't win with him and why Tebow should be the starting quarterback because he can make plays with his arm and legs. 

Forget the notion that Tebow is a good person and teammate who would support Sanchez, because when push comes to shove, everyone wants to be starting. 

Tebow may not state publicly that he wants Sanchez's job, but there will be others that do it for him. Ryan will be under more pressure to bench Sanchez when anything bad happens. 

Suppose Tebow does go to the Jets, gets inserted as the starting quarterback and struggles. What does the team do after that? Are they going to put Sanchez back in? They shot any confidence he might have had by sitting him for Tebow. 

Tebow is not worth all of that to this franchise. For a team like Jacksonville, that needs a player to market around, he would be perfect. For the Jets, he is not the kind of player they need on the roster. 

Sanchez doesn't need any more pressure on him, and the Jets need to worry about fixing the damaged relationships in their locker room more than a mediocre quarterback who can sell tickets to warm the bench. 

Follow @adamwells1985