Thank you for making my point. While sports fans and the media place the blame for a loss on the shoulders of the QB, in truth, it is not always the QB’s fault.
Tebow took a failing team (1-4) to the 2nd round of the play offs. That is better in my opinion that what most quarter backs can do. The Broncos made a HUGE error by letting Tebow go. They should have kept him and let him understudy to Manning and played him during games that they were already well ahead.
Tebow's Broncos career:
2010 = 9 games, 5 TDs, 72.7 YDS/GAME, 50% COMP %
2011 = 14 games, 12 TDs, 123.5 YDS/GAME, 46.5% COMP %
^^ Those are horrible stats ^^
I think the problem with Tebow isn’t necessarily his skills. Rather it is the style of quarterback he is. (this is not a knock against Tim Tebow, by the way)
Tim Tebow, to be successful, really needs to work out of a run option style offence.
However, the NFL is wedded to a drop back passing game where the QB hands off or throws.
Quarterbacks get hurt in the NFL. If your starting QB is run option style and your backup QB is a classic drop back QB, that means coaches have to have two different styles of offense installed, which isn’t practical.
You’ve got a lot of factors working against a Tim Tebow.
One: Coaches lack imagination
Two: Scouting departments lack imagination
Three: Owners lack imagination
If a Tim Tebow is going to be the starting QB, then your backup QB needs to be cut from the same cloth.
I don’t see any coaches or teams innovative enough or gutsy enough to take a chance on building the kind of offense a run option QB will be successful in.
Heck, I don’t even know if the run option would be successful in the NFL.