(10-29-2017, 01:56 PM)JaguarJosh05 Wrote: The national narrative about Blake Bortles is pretty skewed. When given time and a chance to run the offense he's looked pretty good most of the time. Not great but not as awful as the media seems to think. He had a dismal preseason and that seems to be what put him in the dog house. Last year was a completely different team and scheme.

Blake Bortles had an opportunity to throw for over 300 yards because Leonard Fournette was not available. He took advantage of a bad and banged up pass defense, but if LF wasn't hurt more run plays would have been called.

The national media knows Doug Marrone changed to a run-first scheme with Borltes being relegated to game manager because #5 can't carry the team with his right arm. Losing the C patch on his uniform certainly did not help matters. Where they go wrong is basing his ability to throw on numbers instead of the eye test while ignoring the absence of #15.

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