“They ignore the fact that the Denver defense shaved 15 points of their average allowed for his reign (or somehow credit him with it) “
I’ m no Tebow fanatic , but a little observation would show that a notable part of that was due to his not putting his defense in a bad spot - and further he certainly seemed to get his defense to perform better and with more confidence.. Not to compare him with Brady overall, but in 2001, the Pats defense responded to Brady the same way. Trent Dilfer also helped his team out a lot by not taking risks with the ball. There is definitely something to be said for each the leadership displayed and that style of play.
“and studiously ignore how often he had 10 or fewer completions in a game.”
A Running first down and a passing first down aren’t all that different...except that when you execute your defense and a player who isn’t “supposed” to be making the play makes the conversion a few times it is demoralizing.
Or maybe they just came together. That season thanks to the strikes defense struggled early. League wide defensive numbers improved dramatically in the second month.
10 total receptions in a game is bad QBing, period. 2 is utterly pathetic. He’s done that. His overall numbers are just plain bad. Very few passes, very few competitions, very low competition percentage, bad TD to turnover ratio. In the end you can see exactly why he was 3rd on the depth chart.