Posted on 04/23/2015 9:19:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
According to Jay Feely, Tim Tebow is a great man and a great competitor, but Feely still believes Tebow is the “worst quarterback” ever. But do Tebow’s stats agree with that assessment?
In a related report by the Inquisitr, in the past some have claimed that Tebow was “blackballed” from the NFL due to Christian beliefs, not NFL stats. At the same time, Joe Theismann insists Tim “can’t throw the football” and referee Jim Daopoulus once used Tebow as an example of the uncatchable rule. Rush Limbaugh might agree that more men like Tebow are needed in the NFL, but insists he just can’t handle the quarterback position at the NFL level.
Due to this history, some question whether Eagles coach Chip Kelly is making a mistake, wondering aloud how the Philadelphia Eagles could have two quarterbacks, Tebow and Mark Sanchez, coexist.
Based upon comments made by Jay Feely, Tim Tebow’s Eagles deal is just a mistake — period.
“[Chip Kelly] thinks he’s smarter, and so can take a guy that everybody else has quit on and can make him work and utilize him… [Tebow] is such a dichotomy for me because I really respect the person, the man, the things that he believes in and the things he does off the field, he was the single worst quarterback I ever saw in my career in the NFL. Like, I watched him one day. I sat and watched him do routes on air with Ken Whisenhunt as we were playing the Broncos, and routes on air—there’s no DBs, you know exactly what he’s going to run. There’s no pass rush. He had like 13 incompletions in routes on air. Like, Jim, you and I could go out and do routes on air and we’d complete most of our passes.”
Over on Twitter, Jay Feely softened the blow by noting that he thinks very highly of Tim Tebow as a person, but concludes he’s “just not a good QB. Sorry if that offends you.” He also took at a jab at his critics by noting the number of “people who talk about their ‘faith’ in their bio but cussed me out on Twitter [because] of what I said about Tebow.”
Would Tim Tebow’s stats disagree with Feely? Tebow has a career passer rating of 75.3, having thrown 17 touchdowns, ran for 12 rushing touchdowns, and thrown nine interceptions during his time as a starter. As a comparison, Mark Sanchez has a career rating of 74.1.
Even though Tim Tebow’s stats show him to be an average NFL quarterback, he was supposedly a fantastic leader with the Denver Broncos. Tebow was even named Forbes’ most influential athlete for the year. In 2012, Tim was ranked number 95 by his peers in the NFL Top 100. Near the end of the 2011-2012 season, Tebow was ranked number five out of the NFL’s 32 starting quarterbacks. So, while Tebow is unlikely to be one of the top 10 NFL quarterbacks right now, calling him the “worst quarterback” ever seems something of an overstatement.
Supporters of Tim Tebow also point out that the NFL quarterback’s running game is quite formidable compared to other NFL quarterbacks, although this ability requires a team to adjust their strategy to Tebow’s strengths. Tim is built like a linebacker, standing 6 foot 3 inches and weighing 240 pounds, and yet, he can run the 40-yard dash in 4.7 seconds. It’s possible Chip Kelly is hoping to use Tebow as wildcard quarterback, which forces the defense to adjust their strategies to compensate for unknowns.<noscript><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kF7SWPUN2jk?rel=0" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></noscript>
Do you agree with Jay Feely’s assessment of Tim Tebow’s NFL stats, or do you think the quarterback will make a great addition to the Philadelphia Eagles?
I'm not sure I'd put "work" and "Jamarcus Russell" in the same sentence...
Excellent analysis.
Thank you. I’m not even an NFL fan, I prefer watching college ball. But the Tebow madness keeps bringing me back. There’s obviously something more than the usual “my guy is better” argument going on here and I keep hoping we get to see this explode into a huge circus next fall.
LOL true dat
The offense gets run mostly from the sidelines.So the sideline leads the huddle, takes the snap, hands the ball off, runs with the ball, and passes the ball?
I think you're confusing the calling of plays with running the offense.
You score points and win the game by completing passes.So rushing TD's don't count? Protecting the ball doesn't count? Fourth quarter winning drives don't count?
Tebow had 17 passing TD's and 12 rushing TD's, vs 9 interceptions. He also had a winning record.
It seems to me that his accomplishments are much more convincing than your opinion.
I’m not a football fan, either, but because professional sports is such a huge industry, these flurries over individual players are very interesting, sociologically.
The sideline calls the play which the QB relays in the huddle, which includes the snap count is to use. The QB’s job is executing the play called. And if the play called is a pass, which it is more than half the time in the modern NFL, part of that execution is completing the pass. Which Tebow doesn’t do.
A QB with under 50% completions is not protecting the ball.
He has a bad completion percentage. And over half “his” wins involved him throwing less than 10 passes. He is quite simply not a good QB. He’s a gamer. Lots of effort. And highly entertaining to watch, so long you’re not the guy who called a pass play only to watch him throw it at the grass.
My “opinion” is matched by the 4 different coaches he’s worked for over his career. And in a few months there’s a good chance a 5th coach is going to be added to the list of guys acknowledging he doesn’t have what it takes. It’s his failure they see, and that I’m pointing out. Sorry if you don’t find that convincing, but that’s on you. His history is there and plainly obvious: cannot complete passes in the NFL level.
Broncos, Jets, Patriots, Eagles. This is his fourth chance in the NFL.
But apparently not convincing enough to the three NFL teams that have already determined Tebow doesn't have what it takes to make their team, and the 28 others who didn't think Tebow was worth bringing into camp. That leaves the Eagles. And we'll see if Tebow can show enough to stick around with them.
Then how did he get 17 TD passes?
A QB with under 50% completions is not protecting the ball.
Having more TD passes than interceptions is the usual measure for protecting the ball, or I suppose interceptions per pass attempt would be another. Then there is also the matter of having more wins than losses. Most of the time in the NFL, the team that wins turnovers, wins the game. And Tebow has more wins than losses. And Tebow did turn the ball over significantly in his losses, but he had fewer of those than he did wins, when he did an excellent job of protecting the ball.
Better than soap opera, lol.
Joe Montana also had trouble moving up the depth chart both in college and the pros, but when he had a chance to play, it was a different story.
You can learn a lot about people this way.
17 TD passes for 23 games (we’ll do him a favor and pretend that NYJ year never happened) isn’t actually very much. That’s less than 1 a game. Not really an NFL caliber QB stat.
His TD to INT ratio isn’t that good. And also one must remember just how often he threw hardly any passes. If your OC trusts you so little that you only throw 10 times in a game you’re probably not going to throw an INT, because it’s hard to throw an INT when you’re not throwing period.
It’s a 53 man roster. QBs don’t win alone. Tebow was helped quite a bit by the Denver defense getting their act together and shaving 15 points off their PAA.
The facts are in. He is not a good QB. Period. The Tebow cultists need to internalize that. Don’t know why you guys can’t handle a simple and obvious truth. You keep beating the drum on “his” wins and studiously ignore the plainly obvious truth. Don’t know why so many of you have your sense of self worth tied to him. But it’s sad.
Meanwhile enjoy the OTA footage that leaks of him. He probably won’t be on the team come pre-season, and just forget regular season action.
I know. The Tebow cult is being denounced by the anti-Tebow cult. Religion is definitely involved, but it may not be the religion that people normally think of when the name Tebow is invoked. Popcorn is needed to fuel further study.
Tebow had 11 games in the 2011 season with the Broncos and 8 games in 2012 with the Jets. He could be out of chances.
Sports-fandom is a fascinating manifestation of the human religious instinct.
My geeky 13-year-old son says that’s an alien of the same species as Darth Maul, only a different color.
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