Stat Of The Weak: Tampa Bay QB Byron Leftwich's Completion Percentage

Writer's note: My column "Stat of the Weak" will be a weekly feature here at B/R during the season (unless it bombs). The idea here is to take a look at one statistic from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' game of the week or the season at large. Statistics can certainly lie about performance, and this is where I want to show how that happens. It's a preseason game. It is the first preseason game. Stats are, admittedly, meaningless in these games. But just as the players are warming up for the season, I, too, am warming up. (That's why this article is a bit late. But, hey, I got it out before the second game, right? That's something?) This week's Stat of the Weak is Bucs' quarterback Byron Leftwich's completion percentage. If a fan were to look at Leftwich's 43 percent completion percentage from last week's game on it's own, he or she might assume that Leftwich is trailing in the race to win the starting quarterback role. Last season th...