Not hated on just don't see how that is plausible.
Tebow was terrible in 2011, comp % was around 46%. He had Demaryous Thomas and Eric Decker to throw to. We didn't have anything like that here.
It was a magic carpet ride Denver had a ton of luck. They lost their last 3 games and made the playoffs at 8-8
As bad as our QB were at throwing the ball we'd ask, how could you do worse. Well with Tebow I'd say, hello worse
The Broncos went 8-5 with Tebow that year counting the playoffs.
How is it plausible? Tebow's game isn't accuracy or consistency. That wouldn't be where he stood out here. What Tebow did in Denver was essentially act as a decoy for the running game, manage the game (not throw a ton of back-breaking picks), and create big plays. In 2011, he posted 19 TDs to 12 turnovers in 13 starts. Are those great numbers? No. But Tebow was an effective deep ball passer and a dangerous runner. He's a big reason why the Broncos had the #1 rushing attack in the NFL that year and Willis McGahee had a great year out of nowhere.
Frankly, our QBs in 2014 and 2015 sucked anyways. Were they better passers than Tebow? Yes. But they were still among the worst (if not the worst) in the NFL as passers. So there wasn't really any net gain relative to other teams. What Tebow would have given us is a decoy who opened things up in a major way for our rushing attack. Which was our bread and butter in 2015. It's not like our defense needed a lot of scoring. All they needed was a QB who wouldn't turn the ball over a ton, throw a bunch of pick sixes, and could put some points on the board.
Tebow is an effective enough deep ball passer to do damage off of play-action and he would have opened up running lanes for our backs. Kind of like Tavon Austin did when we used him as a decoy on those jet sweeps and end-arounds.
Essentially, with Tebow at QB, we would have been in a position where we had a stronger rushing attack and a QB who was hurting us less with turnovers. Our passing attack still would have sucked but it sucked anyways in 2014 and 2015. If you think about it, we were 2 wins away from a winning season in 2015 and 3 wins away from a winning season in 2014. And we lost a bunch of games each of those years late which is where Tebow shined.
I'm certainly not upset because all that sucking led us to Goff which is absolutely worth it. But I do think we'd have won more games with Tebow or any other Tebow-caliber run-first QB who could avoid throwing a bunch of interceptions.
That's one area where I agree with
@Memphis Ram that NFL teams are wasting QB skill-sets by not giving certain athletic guys a chance. If I had a quality thrower, I wouldn't either. But the team's with the worst QBs in the NFL are stupid not to adjust their system and use an athletic QB to open up the rushing attack. Their passing attack won't win them game either ways. If they were smart, they'd find an athletic guy who can rack up rushing yards and keep his interceptions low and then go run heavy. That would be a good temporary solution to their QB problem. Or, at minimum, it would put them in no worse of a situation than they would have been in with a bad QB starting.
Everything you said was correct but not Tebow, close but no cigar!
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Nah. Pryor is an even less effective passer than Tebow and a turnover machine. He doesn't fit the role Tebow would have had here.
