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To: discostu
Everybody seems to play better when Tebow is in the game, including the defense.
In other words, Tebow is no statistical circus freak winning in spite of himself. Tebow's Broncos are winning because he consistently outperforms the opposing quarterback when you take into account all aspects of production: passing, running, sacks, total touchdowns, interceptions and fumbles. In fact, he consistently outperforms them by a wide margin.

Denver is 5-0 when Tebow produces a higher Real QB Rating than the opposing quarterback and 0-1 when the other team has the advantage. And those results are no coincidence.

After all, it turns out that no stat in football outside final score -- indeed, maybe no stat in North American sports, period -- is more important than Real QB Rating this season when it comes time to separate winners and losers.

Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/kerry_byrne/11/29/tim.tebow/index.html#ixzz2S3sJDFEC

Tebow is an above average QB. Considering his youth and the lack of real support from management, he did great.

Tebow was brought in to run the wildcat, a formation that stopped working two years ago when Sparano was with the Dolphins. It's the Jets who stink, not Tebow.

197 posted on 05/01/2013 10:07:55 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Moonman62

Or they just gelled. Or they just went against terrible opponents. Some selective stats in that story. They talk about his QB ratings in weeks 7 - 12 (presumably when the story was written), but ignore other stats like the fact that his completions for those final three games were 2, 9, and 9.
http://www.nfl.com/player/timtebow/497135/gamelogs?season=2011
So sure in week 10 he had a rating of 102.6. But he got that rating only throwing the ball 8 times and only completing 2 passes. With that little actual QBing his rating means nothing, what matters there is 8 attempts, the rest of the team won that game, he just happened to be the handoff guy.

No Tebow is NOT an above average QB. He is a TERRIBLE QB. 47.9% career completions is NOT above average, it’s PATHETIC.

It’s not either/ or, both the Jets AND Tebow can stink. In fact if you take as a given that the Jets stink and have shown a significant trend of picking poor players the fact that they traded for Tebow helps indicate that he stinks, because if they regularly picked above average players they wouldn’t stink.


198 posted on 05/01/2013 10:20:44 AM PDT by discostu (Not just another moon faced assassin of joy.)
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