Tebow completed 75% of his passes with the Jets and was pulled, Clearly the NFL does not care about stats when giving out jobs.
Geno is a massive risk! Once a team learns to get some defenders deep, its all over. Geno over throws on just about all of his incompletions.
I think the point that was being made is that Genos performance was not 'terrible '. Not overwhelming in any way? Sure. Not a difference maker? Sure. Not full of spectacular moments? Agreed. But in his 1st 2 starts he was asked to play a certain way, likely because they were trying to shift the focus of the offense to the run game and limit his exposure. In his last game, where even Shane and Pete have said he was for the first time on the same page with his OC, he played significantly better. But in a rather negative and myopic view of what played out, that game is tossed out as though it didn't even happen because it was against the Jags.
Do I think Geno is the long-term answer as Qb for this team? NO. But I also don't think hes terrible, or that our season is over and we are a 4 win team if he has to start. If thats the case, hed actually be subtracting wins from a roster that is capable of more than that.
He won 8 games in his rookie season with the Jets. And two years later his head coach was fired for how terrible he at preparing the team. The Jets have been bad for a long time, save for a brief period where Mark Sanchez played well and they had Favre.
Same goes for Lock. In the system that most closely resembles what we run and with coaches that mentor him the way ours have, he came in as a rookie and won 4 games at the end of the season.
Both qbs had much worse second years, but in each case, there are circumstances beyond simply their ability thatbcontributed to their overall team not playing well and in Locks case with Covid, he himself not benefiting from a solid offseason if prep.
So yes, they both COULD suck here. They both have played poorly in the past. Theyve also both shown the potential to play better.
Which they'll be here remains to be seen, but it's only if you take the worst possible outcome given each of their PAST performances that you can arrive at a conclusion that this team won't do anything this year.