Whether any of this gets the Jets closer to the Super Bowl is another question entirely. Both Sanchez and Tebow are very nice people, much nicer than the cynical newspaper columnists who call them nice people.

Tebow doesn’t hurl his religion at anybody. He wouldn’t have mentioned, four times, “my Lord, Jesus Christ,” if reporters hadn’t pressed him on the issue. That’s what the media does – bring it up and then roll their eyes.

– Filip Bondy, N.Y. Daily News.

You said it, man. Watching Tim Tebow’s introductory news conference yesterday, all I could think was how weird the dynamic is, the strange tango: So many (not all, but many) reporters asking questions that seemed aimed to elicit a controversial response, and Tebow finding ways to answer them without undercutting Mark Sanchez or revealing his personal politics or doubting his new or old coaches or really saying anything at all except that he’s excited to be a Jet and that he’s a devout Christian.

And since Tebow danced through it like Fred Astaire, so smoothly and with such a broad smile, now we know he “handles the media well.”

Everyone involved has a job to do, I realize. I doubt many — if any — of the 250-some media at the event woke up thinking, “I can’t wait to do everything I can to make this 24-year-old aw-shucks folk-hero look stupid or inconsiderate or mean or foolishly righteous on his first day of his new job” or anything like that. Everyone needs to satisfy someone and most are competing for eyeballs somewhere. The beast is us.