Furthermore, you’re not even stating the stat correctly. It isn’t measured as a percent (83.9%).

Beyond that, you’re just dead wrong that Tebow is a better QB than Cutler. The ONLY reason that Tebow MAY be considered a better QB at THIS particular moment is because Jay has a broken thumb on his throwing hand and isn’t playing.

Most folks, in judging a QB, would look at things like completion percentage (TT: 48.6% this year, 49% career; JC 58% this year, 61.1% career), yards per attempt (TT 6.7 this year, 7.1 career; JC 7.4 this year, 7.3 career) and yards per game (TT 124 this year, 102 career; JC 232 this year, 234 career). It’s quite clear that Jay is a far better QB to anyone who either used the eyeball test or advanced statistics. It seems you’re caught somewhere in the middle. (As a side note, Tebow’s completion percentage and average yards passing per game are both currently ranked #32 in the NFL on NFL.com.)

In my opinion, I’d hazard to guess that one reason Tebow throws so few INTs is that he is so inaccurate. He’s completed less than 50% of his attempts for his career. And his per game passing average is pretty much spot-on, as he as very few yards passing (less than 100) off the bench.

In fact, during his entire career Tebow has only started ONE GAME where he has a completion percentage higher than Jay Cutler’s career average. Tebow completed 10 of 15 passes against Minnesota this season – and Minnesota sucks. That’s it.

Per the rushing numbers that you think put Tebow over the top, the add up to 51 yards per game this season. That means that in total yardage passing and rushing Tebow is still 57 yards behind Jay Cutler’s passing-only numbers per game. Meanwhile, Jay did manage to lumber his way to an average of 200 yards rushing per season between 2007-2011, so he’s far from immobile, even though he cut down his runs significantly this season (and rightfully so, because he can actually throw passes accurately).

And this isn’t, in fact, Cutler’s best year for the Bears, to which you suppose that we would all agree. Last season he completed a higher percentage of passes (60.4%) for more yards per attempt (7.6), as well has having a higher TD%, even though he had slightly fewer yards per game and higher INT . I think at this point it’s a stretch to think that Tebow will ever approach 60 completions for over 7.5 yards per attempt at anywhere near the volume of passes that an average starting QB throws, let alone Jay’s numbers for the pass-happy Denver Broncos franchise that Tebow now plays for.

My father and older brothers explained to me very succinctly, decades ago, why teams don’t run the option in the NFL: because QBs will eventually get killed. It’s why Mike Vick never won a Super Bowl and has since become a pocket passer. Tebow simply can’t consistently outrun the likes of Urlacher and Peppers, and sooner or later a guy like Suh will take his head off on a clean play, let alone a late hit. Tebow has already fumbled 10 times in 9 starts, though he’s only lost 4 of them, and that compares to an average 15-16 game season for Jay.

Even if your argument only takes into account winning football games, Tim Tebow has 7 wins as a starting QB this season, and 8 for his career. In relatively the same timeframe, since the bye week last season, Jay Cutler is 15-6 (including playoffs), with losses only to the Super Bowl Champ Packers (3x), Patriots, Saints in the Superdome, and Lions in Ford Field, and he was riding a 5-game winning streak when he was injured.

In summation, you could argue that Tebow is a better QB right now than Cutler. But unless you’re argument depends on Jay sitting on the bench with a broken thumb, it’s very unlikely that you would come out on top in your argument to any impartial audience.

Unless it’s Gale Sayers.