(11-19-2017, 11:37 PM)Tuxedo Wrote: He's definitely minimized the amount of completely boneheaded throws that he's made in prior years. Though Hackett seems to have taken the shallow out route out of the playbook.

We haven't seen it as much this season. But if you recall, the very first pass in the Chargers game was a shallow out route to Hurns. The defender broke on the ball just too late,, or it was a pick-6 for sure. The announcers (Lofton, IIRC) said " oh boy, what a DANGEROUS throw that was."  Bortles and Hurns got lucky in that one.

Least we forget the Jets game,, when a big, slow d-lineman was running towards BB (only Bortles and the Defender were around each other), and Bortles tries to flip the ball over that guys head. The lineman tips it up, intercepts it, and runs all the way to the 2 or 3 yard line. 
Thankfully, they were able to tackle that guy before it was a TD, and the defense held the Jets to a FG from point blank range. But, that was definitely one of the 2 or 3 plays of that game that we could say really cost the Jags a chance at victory. That was a HUGE 3 points for NYJ. 

But, all in all, I agree with you. Bortles has been much better with the dumb mistakes for the most part (even though he still makes them from time to time). The last few minutes of the 4th qtr Chargers game was terrible, for instance.

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