That appreciation for misdirection and deception has stayed with him. In 2012, while with the New York Jets, Pettine watched Tim Tebow line up in Wildcat and zone-read formations every day in practice and shred one of the league's better defenses, and the fact that Jets offensive coordinator Tony Sparano was too stubborn and scared to use Tebow much during games didn't mean, in Pettine's mind, that those principles couldn't be effective. So he hired Shanahan without having met him, knowing that Shanahan had implemented a zone-read offense in Washington for Robert Griffin III - a system that could be perfect for Manziel.