(11-09-2017, 03:44 PM)flgatorsandjags Wrote:

(11-09-2017, 01:32 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: C'mon man. It's because Blake is a terrible deep ball passer. We could have Julio Jones on one side and Tyreek Hill on the other and Bortles still couldn't get them the ball. It's just something he struggles with. Cole has shown the ability to get deep and be a playmaker, so it's not like we have nothing in that regard when it comes to WR. 

You say Blake still has half a season to prove himself, but I've seen enough to know he is holding this team back. He has too many limitations in his game that force us to play a more simplified scheme. We could do so many more things on offense if we just had a more well rounded QB. We don't necessarily have to get an Aaron Rodgers type, just someone who shows the threat to be able to win the game with his arm. We're so close to being a Superbowl team, I can taste it. We just need a QB to get us over that last hump.

He was bad last year but 2015 he led the league by passes of 20 yards or more by a good margin.  He has shown before that he can do it.  He hasn't been holding this team back as of late

He was pretty good in 2015, but somewhere along the way he lost it. I don't know what happened, but he regressed big time and he has never been able to regain that form. Should we wait forever and hope that he finds his way back? What if he never gets back to his 2015 form? Can we afford to wait when we spent so much in free agency to improve the defense? 

He hasn't been holding us back this year, because we dumbed down the offensive scheme to be something he could handle. You don't think that will bite us in the butt somewhere in the future? Once we start getting into the playoffs against really good teams who realize what we are doing, they are simply gonna stack the box and blitz the heck outta Bortles and we'll be exposed. What we are doing now, is more like a band-aid instead of a long term solution. We need to find that long term solution, because if we attach ourselves to Bortles long term, we'll always be limited in the things we can do offensively.

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