(07-01-2017, 12:59 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: While I don't think Bortles was "on fire" for any extended stretch of time in 2015, I do agree with much of the sentiment put forth in the past several posts about his being overly demonized at times. He's shown potential worthy of one more season's evaluation. (Or a least a stretch of games.)

The thing that I feel like is getting glossed over right now by the optimistic crowd here is just how horribly inconsistent his accuracy was in both of the last two seasons. Clearly he was inaccurate in 2016 more often than the prior year.  But a solid percentage of his positive production (in both seasons) came from his receivers bailing him out of bad throws. I'm not as quick to dismiss that stuff as some here apparently. It's GOT to get better.

I do believe Hackett and Marrone have a plan. I do think they will mitigate his mistakes, and I do believe he'll improve his technique and accuracy to some degree.  But I'm not ready to gloss over his 2016 performance as "not that bad." It was pretty darn bad, my friends. If he reverts to anything like that again for any stretch of 2017, I'm ready to move on.