Henne is still Henne folks. Remember how everyone cheered when he was pulled off the field and they brought on Blake Bortles? He is what he is; at best, a 'stop gap' backup quarterback who can hand the ball off. He is not known for leading teams to dramatic come backs, or for taking chances with long down field plays. He is known for going 'three and out' too often and for throwing a lot of 'check down' passes. With a powerful run game though, he might be able to take advantage of the play action pass. We'll see.

I don't know if Bortles not starting the third preseason game signals the end of the Bortles era; I think that may be a rash presumption at this point, but it could be the case. I guess that given the options at the time that Bortles was drafted he must have seemed like the lesser of two evils... when compared to 'Johnny football'. The media over hyped him as the 'franchise quarterback' and as usual we all got suckered in... at least for a short time.

As I said Henne is what he is, so also Bortles is what he is; a young guy with a fair amount of toughness and athleticism... but with serious football throwing technique problems which lead to inaccuracy, as well as a penchant for poor decision making regarding those passes which has resulted in a high interception ratio. This deficiency has been somewhat masked by his 'garbage time' stats... which haven't helped the team at all. He also had the added handicap of playing under very poor coaching here during his rookie years, not to mention a very sub-par offensive line. And right now, his self-confidence probably isn't the best.

Still, you can't draft what isn't there and franchise caliber quarterbacks don't grow on trees. 2018 looks to be a good draft year for quarterbacks supposedly. More than likely we'll get a shot at one. We shouldn't go out and bring in some 'trouble maker' type quarterback (you know who I'm referring to) nor some 'over the hill' or 'never was' type quarterback that will get paid way too much to come here and produce squat. No, we'll just have to bite the bullet another season or maybe even two, and draft a quarterback and let him develope. I know we're all tired of years of bad football here. It takes a long time to undue the damage that has been done by years of bad drafting and coaches... and we've been the victims of both for a long time now. It ain't gonna turn around over night, no matter how much we want it to. Other teams have had to go longer stretches than we have to get it together. 

It is what it is... ride it or get off.

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