Can Too Much Media Coverage Be a Distraction to Manning, Tebow and Palmer?

If a quarterback is always standing before a microphone or in too many interviews with the media, does it cause a distraction from his focus on studying the play book and preparing for the 2012 season?

Lately, there is so much attention being put on Peyton Manning and Tim Tebow. One wonders if this attention is a distraction, causing the NFL players to loose focus of why they playing football.

Let's compare the first two years of NFL performance for Manning, Tebow and Carson Palmer. Here is a graph:

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