(06-29-2017, 12:45 PM)scottyg Wrote:

(06-10-2017, 06:19 AM)SeldomRite Wrote: If understanding that football is a team sport and that there was much more wrong with the team last season than just Blake playing like an average non franchise QB is giving him a pass then okay, anyone sane must be giving him a pass right now.

Calling Bortles average last year sounds like giving him a pass to me.  He was terrible most of the year and he's the main reason I have difficulty looking at this upcoming season with anything but skepticism.  I hope he takes a big step forward, but until I see it, I just can't get all that excited.

I'm calling him average the past year because that's what the stats said he was. I know we have a lot of out of whack expectations of what an NFL QB is because they watch Tom Brady play every week, but Bortles wasn't as bad as some around here seem to think, taken on his own. It takes a team effort to be as bad as the Jaguars were last year.

I'd like for Bortles to be much better, and I think he can be, but I'm not one of the bib brigade that thinks Bortles was the problem all on his own.

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