(06-29-2017, 12:54 PM)SeldomRite Wrote:

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

I agree actually.  Bortles seemed so bad because when he did make mistakes he didn't just look bad, he looked Worst-QB-In-NFL-History bad.  That tended to overshadow the fact that he was actually pretty productive over the past two years.  People seem to dismiss this as merely garbage time stat padding but actually the Jags weren't typically in garbage time much last year.  We'll see if he can eliminate those horrific mistakes which will make all the difference in the perception of his ability.

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