You can live and die by simple stats and still not understand their deeper significance. How do they connect to winning and losing? A typical Flacco 12 for 20 with 150 yards and a 17-14 win because of a great defense is not an indication that Baltimore is better with Flacco than it would be with a Tebow 10 for 25 and 80 yards rushing, including several key third down conversions where he scrambles for it. Flacco flat out stinks, but he is not subject to ridicule about it. Crazy Land is reserved for anyone who would pick Flacco over Tebow at this stage in their careers. Baltimore has been good in spite of Flacco. I respect his toughness, but not his skills.
Sheesh, create fantasy leagues run by stats and all of a sudden a bunch of football simpletons think they know all about the game. "Hey, this guy had 52 percent completions!!" Some of those stats are misleading, or don't tell the whole story.
And yet Flacco still completes a higher percentage (60.8 vs 47.3) of his passes for higher average yards (7.1 vs 6.8) than Tebow.
Don’t forget Tebow also benefits from a good defense that knocked 15 off their PPG average during Tebow’s win streak. Flacco does get ridiculed, and if he flat out stinks Tebow clearly stinks worse.
Sheesh throw a cross on a player and suddenly all the persecution junkies think he must be a great QB no matter what his stat line says. some stats are misleading, but the consistency of stats tells a big story. Tebow had FOUR games last year with single digit completions, and 2 more with 10 completions. He’s just plain not a good QB, look at the stats, his “best” stat is that he went 7-4 to end the regular season, most of those games against teams that finished 500 or worse. He only faced 2 teams in that regular season run that finished better than 8-8, Detroit and New England both of which crushed him. His only quality win was against a Steeler team that was killed by injuries, which he then followed up by getting killed by NE AGAIN.
He’s a nice guy, but he’s not a good QB. The stats are there, look em up. Find me a positive stat other than his 7-4 record against mostly bad teams.