Bradford Doolittle: Chiefs shouldn't discount Thigpen

[Marcellus]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

He uses a lot of pretty complicated metrics in an attempt to avoid what appears to be the most relevant conclusion in this article.

The kid's not accurate enough to start in the league. That's the single most important aspect of an NFL QB, he doesn't have it and is extremely unlikely to get it.

The rest of the article is noise.

Your post got me to looking at career QB completion% (Accuracy). Looks like the standard is about 62.5% give or take .5% for a really good QB. Breese, McNabb, Rothlisberger (sp?), Rivers, and Brady are all about 62%. Payton manning is 64.4% for his career and was only 56.7% his rookie year.

Anyway Thigpen was 54.8% this year. I am not a Thigpen lover nor am I a hater. If he earns a job he earns it, if not he doesn't. We should still draft a QB. I enjoyed his play about 50% of the time this year, 1st half mostly.

My thought is that the difference between 54% and 64% is completing 10 more attempts every 100 or about 3 every game he throws 33 times. Is it really inconceivable that he can't improve that much?