I think keeping Tebow over Barkley is a possibility just due to the fact that you have three QBs of descending ability starting from Bradford > Sanchez > Barkley, and if the first one up is healthy, there's no reason to go down the line for any reason other than garbage time or a meaningless game late in the season. If you are having to start QB3, you are in huge trouble at the NFL level.
With Tebow, Chip gets a 'gadget' QB that can do things the others can't, and of course vice versa.
The biggest argument against this obviously would be Tebow's wobbly game 3 of preseason, when he had the biggest opportunity to make his case anew. Will Chip still keep an open mind about having him around to do oddball stuff? Who knows. Secondarily, but still relevant IS the possibility that both Bradford and Sanchez have dropped by late season, and you need someone to lean on. This is relatively unthinkable, but just look at Arizona last year. I actually think Arizona should have called up Brett Favre, because their final QB situation was beyond terrible. So would Barkley give them a better chance to win than Tebow as a QB1 emergency go-to? If we judge based on preseason performance, that answer obviously has to be an unqualified 'yes' in my mind.
But Chip's mind is his own, so we shall see. He has surprised people more than once, and sometimes in the same day/hour/minute.
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