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Elway's First Season Game by Game

After watching the game yesterday, I heard the phrase wildly inaccurate, and incompetent. That got me thinking about Elway's first season game by game. We have this poor misconception that every QB has to be just like Elway (Unfortunately we only think about the skilled polished post 1993 version of Elway). I guess if you look at Elway's progression in his first season based on the stats would you really say that Tebow's first few games are all that different than Elway's?  

John Elway

SEASON

TEAM

GP

CMP

ATT

CMP%

YDS

AVG

TD

LNG

INT

FUM

RAT

1983

DEN

11

123

259

47.5

1,663

6.42

7

49

14

0

54.9

 

Passing

Rushing

Denver Broncos 14 at Pittsburgh Steelers 10

Sunday, September 4, 1983

Tm

Cmp

Att

Yds

%

TD

Int

Lng

Att

Yds

TD

Lng

John Elway

DEN

1

8

14

13%

0

1

14

0

0

0

0

Denver Broncos 17 at Baltimore Colts 10

Sunday, September 11, 198

Tm

Cmp

Att

Yds

%

TD

Int

Lng

Att

Yds

TD

Lng

John Elway

DEN

9

21

106

43%

0

0

31

1

2

0

2

Los Angeles Raiders 22 at Denver Broncos 7

Sunday, September 25, 1983

Tm

Cmp

Att

Yds

%

TD

Int

Lng

Att

Yds

TD

Lng

John Elway

DEN

6

11

71

55%

0

1

15

0

0

0

0

Denver Broncos 14 at Chicago Bears 31

Sunday, October 2, 1983

Tm

Cmp

Att

Yds

%

TD

Int

Lng

Att

Yds

TD

Lng

John Elway

DEN

4

10

36

40%

0

1

14

3

10

0

5

Denver Broncos 26 at Houston Oilers 14

Sunday, October 9, 198

Tm

Cmp

Att

Yds

%

TD

Int

Lng

Att

Yds

TD

Lng

John Elway

DEN

Did not Play

Cincinnati Bengals 17 at Denver Broncos 24

Sunday, October 16, 1983

Tm

Cmp

Att

Yds

%

TD

Int

Lng

Att

Yds

TD

Lng

John Elway

DEN

Did not Play

San Diego Chargers 6 at Denver Broncos 14

Sunday, October 23, 1983

Tm

Cmp

Att

Yds

%

TD

Int

Lng

Att

Yds

TD

Lng

John Elway

DEN

Did not Play

Kansas City Chiefs 24 at Denver Broncos 27

Sunday, October 30, 1983

Tm

Cmp

Att

Yds

%

TD

Int

Lng

Att

Yds

TD

Lng

John Elway

DEN

Did not Play

Denver Broncos 19 at Seattle Seahawks 27

Sunday, November 6, 1983

Tm

Cmp

Att

Yds

%

TD

Int

Lng

Att

Yds

TD

Lng

John Elway

DEN

8

15

134

53%

1

0

25

4

20

0

5

Denver Broncos 20 at Los Angeles Raiders 22

Sunday, November 13, 1983

Tm

Cmp

Att

Yds

%

TD

Int

Lng

Att

Yds

TD

Lng

John Elway

DEN

11

31

190

35%

0

1

40

3

32

1

23

Seattle Seahawks 27 at Denver Broncos 38

Sunday, November 20, 1983

Tm

Cmp

Att

Yds

%

TD

Int

Lng

Att

Yds

TD

Lng

John Elway

DEN

Did not Play

Denver Broncos 7 at San Diego Chargers 31

Sunday, November 27, 1983

Tm

Cmp

Att

Yds

%

TD

Int

Lng

Att

Yds

TD

Lng

John Elway

DEN

14

28

147

50%

0

3

40

1

1

0

1

Cleveland Browns 6 at Denver Broncos 27

Sunday, December 4, 1983

Tm

Cmp

Att

Yds

%

TD

Int

Lng

Att

Yds

TD

Lng

John Elway

DEN

16

24

284

67%

2

1

49

6

18

0

12

Baltimore Colts 19 at Denver Broncos 21

Sunday, December 11, 1983

Tm

Cmp

Att

Yds

%

TD

Int

Lng

Att

Yds

TD

Lng

John Elway

DEN

23

44

345

52%

3

0

47

3

23

0

14

Denver Broncos 17 at Kansas City Chiefs 48

Sunday, December 18, 1983

Tm

Cmp

Att

Yds

%

TD

Int

Lng

Att

Yds

TD

Lng

John Elway

DEN

13

34

143

38%

0

4

44

3

11

0

11

Denver Broncos 7 at Seattle Seahawks 31

Saturday, December 24, 1983

Tm

Cmp

Att

Yds

%

TD

Int

Lng

Att

Yds

TD

Lng

John Elway

DEN

10

15

123

67%

0

1

31

3

16

0

6

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