3. The Denver Broncos won for two straight months and Tebow is a horrid quarterback. He's a hell of a football player. No doubt about that. But he is a horrid quarterback.
Tebow is a hell of a football player, but a horrid QB?
Tebow is a hell of a football player. He's strong, decently fast and smart. Unfortunately, he's not athletic enough to play running back in the NFL. So, he's a hell of a football player who's stuck in a league with a whole bunch of better football players.
More unfortunately for Tebow, he is in fact a horrid QB. You can talk about willing to win and intangibles all you want, the Broncos were not good offensively with him at QB. They had a stretch of victories predicated on fantastic defense and good play by McGahee.
Tebow completed less than 50% of his passes this year. That's not just horrid, it's historically bad when you consider today's rules. He's roughly in the same category as JaMarcus Russell and Derek Anderson in terms of accuracy. Sure, he's a great guy and can run the football, but is he really any better than Joe Webb? When that becomes a serious question, it doesn't bode well for a player's future success in the NFL. There are passes that any quarterback should be able to make 10/10 times that Tebow can't hit 50% of the time. Look at the Patriots games, where Tebow missed 10-yard out routes by a good 2-3 yards. That's absolutely inexcusable for an NFL QB to do consistently.
I think Tebow could be the ultimate wildcat QB, because he can throw a decent deep ball and run fairly effectively. However, an offense based around Tebow is destined to fail, as evidenced by the Broncos' anemic offensive numbers this year.
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