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New York Jets backup quarterback Tim Tebow was in such pain from two broken ribs that he threw right-handed — his off-hand — with a toy football in a postgame catch on the field with a young boy who attended Thursday night’s game as a guest of Tebow’s foundation.
And yet coach Rex Ryan was prepared to play Tebow in an emergency if starter Mark Sanchez had been injured.
A day after perhaps the most embarrassing loss of the Ryan era — a 49-19 blowout against the New England Patriots — the Jets’ coach defended his decision to activate Tebow as the No. 2 quarterback. He also claimed the team’s doctors didn’t diagnose the fractures until Wednesday — 10 days after they occurred.
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If we absolutely had to have him, I would’ve played him. I’m not a doctor, I’m a human. I felt for him. When the doctors are telling you he can play, when the young man is telling you he can play … he got reps the entire week. That’s why I had him active.”
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