Pats offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels (left) and Tim Tebow also worked together in Denver. (USATSI)
Tim Tebow may no longer be physically present on the Jets' roster but he won't be soon forgotten. Not so much for what he accomplished in his one season with the team -- he was 6 for 8 for 39 yards, and 23 of those yards came on a fake punt in Week 6 -- but for everything else, including the money the Jets are still doling out for Tebow.

Last week, the Patriots signed Tebow to a two-year contract with no guarantees. The deal will reportedly pay him $1.36 million total, and, as ESPNNewYork.com's Rich Cimini notes, the Jets are no longer on the hook for Tebow's salary. But (you knew that was coming) Cimini adds that New York is still making payments to the Broncos -- $1.53 million, to be precise -- as part of last spring's trade agreement.

"In other words," Cimini wrote Sunday, "the Jets are paying more for a ghost than the Patriots will pay over two years for the actual player -- if he makes the team."

Of course, Patriots owner Robert Kraft has made it clear that he's a huge Tebow fan.

"We want high-quality people who work hard, are team players," Kraft said on CNBC recently. "I don't think there is a nicer person that I've ever met, and now he'll get to compete with all the other people at the position, and our hope is that he's on our 53-man roster."

Jets coach Rex Ryan, who had no idea how to use Tebow last season, says he'd be fine with Tebow making the Pats' final 53, too -- especially if he replaced Tom Brady in the starting lineup. And while that's not happening, you can pretty much bank on Bill Belichick using Tebow in new and exciting ways to embarrass the Jets. Fun starts in Week 2 when the Pats host the Jets on Thursday Night Football.

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