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The brave souls who attend Sunday's battle for last place in the AFC East at the soon-to-be-rebuilt Ralph Wilson Stadium will not see a number of things:

-- A game with any playoff implications.

-- A game with any other implications, beyond next year's schedule and (UPDATE: As reader Patrick Keyes pointed out, the Bills have already locked up last place in the AFC East) draft position. If you are the type capable of hoping your favorite team gets beaten, the Bills could advance as far as the fourth overall pick with a loss to the New York Jets, according to Mark Gaughan of the Buffalo News, or drop as low as No. 11 if they win.

-- Tim Tebow do much of anything besides stand or sit on the sidelines, trying not to visibly pout. In case you missed it, which would be perfectly understandable given the irrelevance of the teams involved, but Tebow was bypassed when Jets coach Rex Ryan dumped Mark Sanchez in favor of former third-stringer Greg McElroy. When symptoms of a concussion McElroy apparently sustained last Sunday surfaced while lifting weights Thursday morning, Ryan scratched him for this Sunday.

With an ideal opportunity to give the left-handed sort-of-quarterback something resembling a shot, Ryan instead went back to Sanchez. While the Sanchez-Tebow controversy that ESPN did its very best to foment never quite reached a boil, Timmy Touchdown got the tabloids fired up this week by either refusing to take part in the Wildcat package designed for him, or not, depending on whose story you buy.

"I never said, 'Hey, I don't want to do anything. I won't do anything,'" Tebow said on Wednesday. "That wasn't the talk at all. He knows that. And everybody on this team knows that I would never not do something if I was asked. That's what's disappointing. ... People saying, 'Oh, you quit.' That was not it at all. It was just me asking to get an opportunity to play the position I love, which is quarterback. It wasn't me asking out of anything." 

Maybe not, but many people in the organization definitely perceived it that way. A team source told the Daily News on Sunday night that Tebow had told Ryan that he didn't want to play in Wildcat situations after he was bypassed for the starting job.

 The whole mess should put a couple of the Tebow myths to rest.

First, there's the notion that he is capable of playing quarterback on a regular basis in the NFL. Denver's run to the playoffs with Tebow last season looks flukier than ever, since whatever he showed during the exhibition season and practices wasn't enough to convince Ryan to plug him in for the imploding Sanchez while the Jets were still alive for the postseason. Or even start him ahead of a last-round draft pick who once the season was effectively over.

So he's now been dumped by one team that reached the postseason with him playing, and another that exploited his name to sell tickets, then made him watch as their season, and the guy he was backing up, disintegrated.

Then there's the idea that Tebow's faith, selflessness and extraordinary athleticism more than offset his inability to throw a football with the consistent zip and accuracy required at the sport's highest level, inspiring the teammates who love him so dearly that they will win despite his flaws.

If that myth was not thoroughly debunked by the parting shots delivered by former Denver teammates, it has been now.

Who knew so many well worn sports-media tropes could collide in one player? Tim Tebow is the plucky winner who rides his leadership and intangibles to greatness. Tim Tebow is also the overrated prima donna, the one who grumps over limited playing time and sulks and eventually quits on his team before demanding a trade. All things to all men, this guy. Which one is the real Tim Tebow? Find out by tuning into Jaguars games in fall 2013.