Honestly, I have to say that both Sanchez and the defense contributed to many of those comebacks. But again, both had a few off nights last year as well. Consistency just didn't happen last season on both ends. If we end up grabbing Coples its over.
Agree that Sanchez has to work on reading defenses, but Tebow is not an upgrade when it comes to reading defenses when he has to pass - and everyone knows it. Just ask the Patriots.
In the first half of the first meeting with the Pats, Tebow tore them up. The game plan was mixing pass and run for one of the few times in the first half of a game. Any quarterback is going to have trouble if the defense knows your passing. Is Tebow a top notch reader of defenses? No. He does however have great feet and I saw him pull off more big plays when a pass play broke down than I have ever seen Sanchez do. He will get better at reading defenses, he's only started a seasons worth of games. Funny thing about Tebow is people (not the person I am responding to necessarily) like to judge him on completion percentage and reading defenses and they grade him like he is a five year veteran with 50 starts. Very few quarterbacks have high completion percentage stats in their first season starting. Far fewer can read defenses at the level of a player with 40 or 50 or more starts. It will come for Tebow. The great thing about Tebow was some how some way he keeps finding a way to win. Winning is a trait that doesn't get the credit it should anymore (fantasy leaguers is my guess). People are concerned with completion percentage and Tebow like no quarterback I have ever seen. I say when a quarterback is winning more than the quarterback he replaces (see Orton) and takes a team with the worst record in the NFL for the 30 previous games to winning their first playoff game in seven years, I'm not going to continually dog him on his completion percentage. Winning always trumps completion percentage and every other stat that isn't named winning.
For some reason, this thread reminds me of the PI call at Denver in 2010. And the other close victories against sub-par teams that year.
If you have a solid defense you can go to a run heavy offense. Guided by a QB who doesn't turn the ball over much. Is deadly in the red zone and can improve the running game by his presence on the field. And who adds crazy leadership skills.
