Mark Sanchez is fine with getting substituted out for Tim Tebow near the goal-line - New York Daily News (blog)

CORTLAND â€" On a day when Tim Tebow accounted for three touchdowns (2 run, 1 pass) in a live goal-line session, Mark Sanchez made it clear after practice on Thursday that he’s amenable to leaving the game near the goal-line for his backup.
 
“We got to get it in the end zone. I don’t care,” Sanchez said. “Whatever we have to do -- and Coach Sparano going to be the judge there on what exactly he wants. But if that’s what he wants and if that’s what puts it in the endzone, fine. We’ll drive it 99 yards and he can run it in. It doesn’t matter.”
 
Sanchez, who was irked when Rex Ryan pulled him for a couple practice snaps last season, said he simply wants the team to succeed.
 
“It does not matter. We got to win the game,” Sanchez said. “We’re in the business of winning. It’s fine with me.”
 
Sanchez, who was one of the most efficient passers in the red zone last season, scored a 3-yard bootleg. The first-team offense scored twice (Shonn Greene had a 1-yard TD).

“It’s bigger than what one person on this team wants,” Sanchez said. “We really are in the business of winning and we have to be selfless, myself included. That’s the most important thing.”

Tebow dominated in the goal-line drills with the second team. He scored on a perfectly designed bootleg, tossed a 1-yard touchdown to Josh Baker before Sparano dusted off a play call from his days with the Dolphins. Tebow took a snap out of the shotgun on a fake Jet sweep that Sparano used with Ronnie Brown and Ricky Williams. Tebow faked it to Joe McKnight in motion before running it without being touched for a two-yard touchdown.
 
Tebow, of course, was primarily used as a short-yardage and goal-line quarterback during his freshman season at the University of Florida.
 
“I feel like I’ve done that once or twice,” Tebow said. “It comes pretty natural. It was fun. As an offense, we did a good job down there in short yardage and goal line.”

NOTES:
Santonio Holmes didn’t participate in anything more than “extended warmups” today with the strength and conditioning coach due to “a lot of soreness in the body” from "a lot of running,” he said. He offered no specific injury. “It takes a few days to get adjusted to being back in camp and wearing shoulder pads and getting back in football shape,” said Holmes, who didn't put a timetable on when he would return full go to practice.
 
Holmes, who has had more massages this offseason than in the past, has welcomed Sparano’s fast tempo in practice.
 
“I think the tempo is wonderful,” Holmes said. “It gives us an insight to how the game’s going to be played from the start. He didn’t want us to come in and work (and) get into shape. That’s what we have the offseason for. He wants us full go, 100 mph every day. And that’s what we have to prove to him.”

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Antonio Cromartie didn’t address the media after practice, but Chaz Schilens said that he’s fine with the cornerback after he said that he was the second-best wide receiver on the team.
 
“I was probably a little agitated,” Schilens said on Thursday. “I probably said some stuff I shouldn’t have. Everything’s taken care of. No problem with Cro and do what’s best for the team and go from there.”
 
“Antonio Cromartie is a hell of an athlete,” Schilens added. He could play wide receiver if he wanted to.”

Schilens said that he spoke to Cromartie and have moved on.

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