His throwing mechanics resemble a windshield wiper, predictable and one dimensional on a singular plane.
And his passing accuracy is as proficient as Ted Williams was with a bat in hand -- .400 at best.
There's no denying fundamentally and statistically, Tebow is not what you'd envision in a starting quarterback.
There's also no denying Tebow has an x-factor. (He'd probably help Simon Cowell reach the 20 million viewers and make the critical judge feel better for leaving Idol).
Two weeks ago Tebow became the first Broncos quarterback to win back-to-back road intradivisional games since 1977, when the former Heisman winner defeated Kansas City 17-10.
A week later and a win later the Broncos are an even 5-5 and in the AFC West hunt.
The latest victory was perhaps his most impressive.
Tebow's last-minute heroics produced the game-winning 20-yard touchdown run with 58 seconds left that capped a 95-yard drive against a vaunted Jets defense.
The win was his fourth and third comeback in five starts this season.
Tebow is an openly religious man and humanitarian. Good things are said to happen to good people.
Surely that doesn't completely explain his success.
Perhaps since he so strongly believes in a higher power, he avoids complacency.
Whatever the specifics of his x-factor is, Tebow is certainly a winner.
His team thinks so, too. The Broncos cut displaced starter Kyle Orton.
And while Oakland is the only team in the division with a pulse, Tebow has, for the time being, resurrected Denver from another rebuilding year.
The Broncos now have a pulse of their own, albeit irregular.
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Probably genetic rather than organic would work with Dolly the sheep. I liked the X-factor idea: very clever. Now the story can be written with Peyton in the DNA.
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