I don't think TravelingDad was trying to argue a position either, although I can certainly see why the Travis-bashers and Willis-lovers got all up in arms.
I love stats myself, but they never tell the whole story. I'm willing to bet that Willis has a better ypc in the second half than in the first, for example, and I'd like to see his ypc numbers on those all-important "clock-eating last drives." I'll bet they're a lot higher than 3.8.
You want to see a misleading stat? Try last year's "#2 overall defense." That didn't mean squat because we had a record-low 18 turnovers. Just for comparison, this defense has forced 18 turnovers in the LAST FOUR GAMES alone.