I have no dispute with what you wrote but for some reason, the only lefty NFL QB to have a completion percentage greater than 60% was Steve Young.
Lefties are a minority of people. But there are still plenty of left handed QBs that are good. Ken Stabler, Jim Zorn, you can be good and not get in the HOF.
Lefties are about ten percent of the population. There are 30 QBs in the Hall of Fame. Only one of them, Steve Young is a leftie.
As I mentioned previously, in the NFLs history, there have only been something like 40 lefty QBs. Presently, there are 32 NFL teams, each with a #1, #2and #3 QB. Thats, 96 QBs. statistically, there should be 8-10 lefty QBs in the league but as best I can tell, there are only 3.
Tebow was a TERRIBLE investment for the Broncos.
In terms of long term term team development, I would agree that he was a mistake. However, the Broncos needed a QB and what other QBs were available in that draft that amounted to anything in the NFL? Sam Bradford went #1 overall but who else was there? I could have told the Panthers that Jimmy Clausen was going to be a second round bust and to stay away from him. The next QB selected was Colt McCoy in the 3rd round and he's done nothing. Mike Kafka went in the 4th round and he's presently an unsigned free agent.
A team needing a QB in the 2010 draft had slim pickings. Despite the Notre Dame PR machine hyping Clausen which suckered the Panthers, it was Bradford and Tebow. The Broncos took a gamble on Tebow that while shakey ultimately worked out by virtue of Manning unexpectedly becoming available.
People may not see Tebow as a good investment by the Broncos from a long term team standpoint but the bean counters at Broncos HQ can quantify his selling out every stadium he played in, increased television revenue as a result of selling out, increased license sales, etc and call him a good investment.
I don’t see how the lefty thing matters. He’s accurate, or he’s not, he isn’t. Left handed, right handed, doesn’t matter, he doesn’t read defenses pre-snap, he doesn’t throw before the man is open, and he misses his guys by multiple yards. His team has only trusted him to throw 8 times this season, doesn’t matter which hand he’s NOT throwing with.
Yeah the 2010 draft class didn’t have much in the way of great QBs. But that’s no reason to trade away 3 picks to get a second 1st round pick to take a guy projected to go in the 3rd round. They could have waited until their own round 2 pick (part of what they traded away) and gotten him then. Then they wouldn’t have gotten stuck paying him so much. Or if they REALLY thought he was all that they could have just picked him with their own 1st round pick at 22 instead of trading away half their draft to get him at 25. No matter how you slice it that was a mismanaged draft. And meanwhile they had Orton, who was statistically better.
The bean counters will tell you the Broncos always sell out. So he didn’t do anything for them there either. And TV revenue comes from the NFL’s national contracts, doesn’t matter who’s on the field for that. Licensing sales probably helped. But probably not the 11 million a year they paid him because they pick up a 3rd round pick in the 1st.
So the Mort Report on the pre-game show said something about the Jags having basically open try outs for QB next year and Tebow will be in the mix. I wasn’t paying much attention cause the wife just got home so I missed the details (like how Tebow will leave the Jets, and why the Jags would be willing to take on an $11 million contract for a guy that’ll still have to try out), but that’s the core of it.