Quote:Is there a reason we never take deep shots.. I know we do once or twice a game but last year we thrived on the deep ball what is this dink and dunk nonsense?
QB sucks at throwing the ball, offensive line does not give enough time, receviers suck at catching the ball. Want more?
Quote:QB sucks at throwing the ball, offensive line does not give enough time, receviers suck at catching the ball. Want more?
The deep ball is easily schemed against when there's no run threat.
Quote:You cannot say any lie without making me mad. If you don't want me to be mad, tell the truth at all times.
Oh man, I truly miss not having to read [BLEEP] like this.
Quote:I think it has to do with game planning and managing Blake's erratic play. This notion that Blake was some great QB last year and that these problems surfaced just this year is false. Blake cost us several wins last year as he has done this year. He showed last year an ability to go downfield like we've never see with the Jaguars, but he was just as sloppy in taking care of the football last year as he has been this year. I think they've tried to help him minimize those mistakes by being more conservative with the game plan in the hopes that some of those mistakes would disappear, but they haven't because Blake hasn't been good. What we saw last year was an exciting, yet bad, football team on the part of the Jaguars. What we've seen this year is a somewhat more boring, yet still bad, football team though I think it's clear the defense has gotten better with the talent infusion on that side of the ball.
There's no doubt Gus's time is up here and he shoulders a significant portion of the blame, but if I'm spreading the blame around accordingly and weighting it I'd say Blake is the biggest reason this team is bad right now. With mediocre QB play, this team is in the thick of the division race and Gus probably isn't gone at the end of the year. All Blake needs to do to be mediocre is take care of the football better, but it's not as simple as just saying it.
In addition, Blake's pass attempts per game are actually up this year from 37.875 per game in to 2015 to 40.25 so far this year. I think the lack of a running game is causing them to try to manufacture one with short passes. For the team to realistically be successful with him at QB, he either needs to get drastically better at protecting the ball or his attempts per game probably need to be down in the mid 20's. My early guess for our 2017 1st round pick would be blue chip O-lineman or blue chip RB. I know that won't be popular with most, but is anyone really in love with any QB coming out this year? I don't know if a high 1st round RB is the best long-term solution, but I think it would probably provide the biggest immediate bounce in the win column for 2017.
Quote:Because he was pressured less.
If anything, he's pressured less this year.
Blake doesn't have the faith in his arm nor the ability in his arm at the moment to throw deep like last year.
Quote:He was very accurate last year. You know that, right? To say he will "never be an accurate passer" means he sucked last year when he threw for 4,428 yards and 35 TDs.
He only completed 58.6% of his passes last year. You know that, right?
Quote:He only completed 58.6% of his passes last year. You know that, right?
And that's with AR15 making some circus catches on jump balls
Quote:And that's with AR15 making some circus catches on jump balls
And Robinson dropped some this year including two drops causing ints. Bortles has hit some deep throws and some have been dropped but his motion got worse and his deep ball is very inconsistent this year.
Quote:Bortles will never be an accurate passer in this league. He's gotta be able to make NFL throws that are catchable with decent trajectory. Lob the passes that should be lobbed with some touch and zip passes in windows when zipping is whats required. He just be all over the place. Plus, also!... I thought Henne was the tipped at the line king. I was wrong.
I gotta say (I am no way saying he is our guy), but he threw a few spirals yesterday. We are in bad shape when we hope to see that...God, why does this team suck so?
Quote:If anything, he's pressured less this year.
We have a better OL this year.