(08-17-2017, 06:58 AM)iapetus Wrote: It *is* possible to come up with a reasonable definition of 'garbage time'. Bortles has had a lot less of it than some people think. This is a team that has lost a lot of close games recently, and has normally been in games late into the last quarter. Obviously you'd rather be a team that wins at least its fair share of those close games, and some of the blame for that may be on Bortles, but it's nothing to do with garbage time.

I believe the garbage time stats is referring primarily to 2015, and yes there was a lot of garbage time & fluky garbage plays that inflated his stats in 2015.  I saw it and said it then, and with any objectivity you could see that it was a house of cards destined to fall that so many were anointing.  Wobbly lobbed jump balls to A-rob, etc....   Understandingly I suppose, it had/has been so long since we were relevant, people wanted to believe.  Then the defense was somewhat improved in 2016 and games stayed closer, and that combined with inevitable shutdown of the fluky plays (crazy jump balls, etc.) and probably a bit of decline of A-rob performance of his own fault, brought those stats back closer to reality in 2016.  And more than some of it is on the play of the QB, a lot of it is, and first and foremost it's still on Caldwell in my book.

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