(07-10-2017, 07:31 AM)leopold332002 Wrote:

(07-10-2017, 05:55 AM)TealHammer Wrote: The turning point was after the 2010 season, specicifically the switch from Garrard to Gabbert.

We have not had legitimately good QB play since then. (The 2015 season ws Bortles throwing for 300+ yards when we were down 21 points.). And that's the main reason 2011-2016 has been such an awful stretch of football.

How many games where bortles threw for 300 yds when down by 21 pts? If it didn't happen often then stop downgrading blake bortles year because statistically blake bortles 2015 year was better than anything garrard has done. Please save me the garrard won games arguments because he had a better team and structure coaching wise around him at the time and they won alot of games despite of him not because he put the team on his back and won games. To future make my point think of how many people on Garrards coaching staff have been or currently are head coaches. Del Rio, Koetter, Lynn, and Mike Smith. Blake on the other hand coaching staff during his tenure as a starter were Gus Bradley Homeboys so you all figure it out. lol.

Garrards best seasons are better than Blakes best, even without the yards. Garrard absolutely did know how to win games, and he was talented at getting third downs when we needed it (something Blake is not). Also he was immensely more accurate. Was he a true franchise Qb? No not really. But he was an guy you could win with. His back injury really sent us into the dark ages. If he had been able to start 2011, with MJD winning the rushing title, we might have got into the playoffs again. It would have given us another year of Gene, but we also would have never gotten Bradley. Maybe even Gabbert would have been better with that year to develop. 2011 is what did us in. We had the D, we had the Rushing game, and our QB play took such a jump backwards we didn't get the opportunity we should have.

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