(10-15-2017, 09:28 PM)Etdavis2006 Wrote:

(10-15-2017, 08:54 PM)FreeAgent01 Wrote: He's doing exactly what a lot of the mensa geniuses want him to do.  You've successfully turned a gunslinger into a game manager and this is what you get.  It's been said by me and several others on this board before, but if you want to succeed with Blake Bortles you have to let him throw the rock downfield and live with the results.  Unfortunately, we probably don't have the horses to do that right now.  It is what it is.  Now we have a big play quarterback who doesn't make big plays and throws screen passes with bad ball placement.

You want to know what wrong with that thinking, we let him do that the past 3 years and never won more than fives games. Many of the games we lost was a direct result of him throwing the game away only to gain monster stats in garbage time. Yes is said garabage time. He just isn’t any good. Do you really think we would even be 3-3 this year if Marrone let Blake just go out there and sling it all over the yard? Come on son. He isn’t not big qb because if he was he would have never throw an pick in field goal range and made big plays today. He just not any good. We were fooled just like when Garrad had his one good year

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17 points scored is on the qb especially when he’s seeing stacked boxes on every play.

Except that isn't completely true. We weren't letting him throw it all around the yard. After he had some interceptions in September, we went into games last season very conservative and asked him to throw on 3rd and longs to start the game. Look back and you'll see he threw significantly less in first quarters than any other quarter. We wouldn't open things up until we were down by two or more scores and that isn't an ideal situation for any quarterback to throw into. We had no run game and no balance.

Would we win more this season if we opened it up? Most likely not. We don't have the weapons to do it. If we did, however, we would definitely be better served doing so. The whole conservative run offense is antiquated in today's NFL for a reason. To win in the NFL, put simply, you have to play good defense and make more big splash plays than the other team. The premise behind playing conservatively on offense is that you keep it close and hope the other team shoots itself in the foot. That just doesn't happen very often in the NFL anymore. We won three games so far by our defense making more splash plays than the other team, which didn't happen today.

The volume of people who are putting this game on Blake's shoulders is, frankly, embarrassing. Besides the fact that it is near impossible to win a game where your special teams spots the other team 23 points (almost 26), look at the talent Blake was surrounded with today.

Blake played with:
2 1st rounders
2 2nd rounders
1 3rd rounder
1 5th rounder
2 7th rounders
7 UDFAs

One of those 1sts was Marcedes Lewis who watched Noah disembark. One of those 2nds has been a bust and dropped a couple of passes. The 3rd rounder isn't good. The offense lacks talent. Offenses aren't meant to hum when they are predominantly UDFA's and 7th rounders.

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