I will give Bortles some credit:

He is absolutely tough as nails. He also has become better this year at stepping up and through the pocket this year when pressured instead of trying to loop back and around it like he used to often.

His 3rd qtr drive was excellent.

Yesterday was also probably the best he’s thrown the deep ball in 2017. He was legitimately inches away from throwing 2-3 more TDs.

If he had, we’d be looking at him completely different today. Part of that though, is I feel like a lot of the issues connecting on those passes are the receivers not knowing what to expect from his throws. Here’s hoping they can find some consistency and production there.

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