(08-19-2017, 11:43 AM)TealHammer Wrote:

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

The "stats" you cite are indicative of a young QB that wilts under pressure. We all know this to be the case with Blake. He seemed confident early in his career and then reality set in and he hasn't handled it well between the ears.  
Those stats are also indicative of a playcaller in Olson that tried to call the game more conservatively until it was too late. 

I don't see anything revolutionary about any of that.  

I've also analyzed his 2015 season extensively.  The whole "stat-padding" line is still way overblown IMO. I re-watched every game at the end of the season and made determinations on every throw he made. I analyzed the box score, the play-by-play, and the situational stats.  His stats were padded -- but no where near the level most of these pundits like to claim they were.  He was indeed a productive QB that season despite his own decision making and accuracy problems. 

Doesn't matter either way now, does it?

(LOL -- you literally asked me to "put aside" the title of the damn thread)

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