(08-19-2017, 09:46 AM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(08-19-2017, 07:55 AM)TealHammer Wrote: I hope your joking but I suspect your not. 

It is a fairy tale to believe that defense minded Gus Bradley is respsonsible for Blake Bortles continuing inability to play QB in the NFL. Blake Bortles lacking natural passing ability, a natural throwing motion, accuracy, the ability to properly grasp his offensive scheme and an inability to read defenses is the reason. He's just not a good NFL QB and never was. 

There is irony that in this post so many sunshine pumpers showed up to crap on a indisputable statistical phenomenon a short time before Blake lit what was left of his career on fire. But this last post, if made in seriousness, is the cherry on top.

LOL

That stupid article was not only disputable - multiple posters in fact disputed it and explained exactly why it was crap in this very thread. 

Bortles is not a good QB.  And in the moment that he merely needed to show at least marginal improvement he's wilting under the big lights. 

That still doesn't make some idiot's ridiculous made-up definition of garbage time correct.

Put the name/phrase "Garbage Time" aside. 

You don't think a 37.9 difference in QB rating between how you play in the first half within one score and how you play with 4 minutes left and at two scores back (and at times it was more than that) is an important stat?  That Bortles has thrown over 20% of his total career TDs in the last four minutes when he has been down multiple scores?  

If you say, none of that matters, then we disagree. 

Semantic games about what the phrase "Garbage Time" should means are just that: games. 

Bortles plays at elite level when there is very little to no chance he will win. Pressure is off. Defense loosens up. That goes a long way to explain Bortles stat padding in 2015. 

And I stand by it - comparing Bortles when game is close vs over is a sensible discussion. Saying that his former HC who focused on the defense is responsible for his current struggles is crazy talk.

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