Another Interesting QB Comparison...

...So it looks like folks in Denver are calming down (at least for a week) on this whole QB situation (winning will do that). Now that we are taking a breath and the prognosticators are going after the Offensive Coordinator (for play calling) and the style of offense played ("this style will get the QB killed"), it looks like the regular Broncos fan can now relax for a few days. With this respite, I thought it might be fun to do some other early career QB comparisons with Tebow. I am going to use his 6 game, 3 win, 3 loss "body of work" to compare with some other folks. Today, I am going to look at Tebow's first 6 games versus Kyle Orton's first 6 career starts. Here is the comparison:

Name	Record	Comp	Att	Yds	TD	Int	QB Rate	Cmp%	Yds/Att	TD%	Int%
Tebow	3-3	81	168	1108	9	4	77.7	48.2	6.6	5.4	2.4
Orton	3-3	93	168	819	5	7	61.1	55.4	4.9	3.0	4.2

Ironically, after six starts they each threw 168 times. The rest of the numbers speak for themselves. Both 3-3 in wins and Orton has the advantage in completion percent for throws that are quite a bit shorter. Also, as mentioned in my earlier post, so far Tebow has really been able to both throw a higher percentage of TD's and protect the ball better than every other person I have compared him to so far.

So What is The Point???

It looks like the conclusion of this blog post is that Tebow is a better choice for the Broncos now and he would have been a better choice for the Bears had he been old enough in 2005.