(11-28-2017, 02:44 PM)Cleatwood Wrote:

(11-28-2017, 02:32 PM)Diz Wrote: No... sorry, but no.

That play is a PERFECT example of why Bortles makes his WRs look bad.

Cole had inside leverage on his man.

Cole had a step on his man.

Bortles pass was on the outside of the DB, forcing Cole to come back INTO coverage and attempt to make the catch.  He literally threw the DB back into the play, instead of putting the ball to the inside and in front of Cole, where he'd have had the easy catch and likely a TD.  THAT... would have been delivered perfectly.

Hell, that was even called out on the Broadcast.

Bortles routinely throws the ball in position to make the catch FAR more difficult than it should be, and that's the #1 reason our Offense looks pathetic.  The easy stuff isn't easy.

If Blake had actually led the WR to the right spot, it was a TD. He needed to lead him to the other hash mark.

Some of the blame is on the WRs, no doubt. But Blake never throws WRs open, he waits until someone is WIDE OPEN to make the throw and he doesn't anticipate.

Drops hurt Bortles more than most QBs because he's so bad at getting the ball to the spot on time accurately almost always.
Lee is leading the league in drops... and a lot of his are just dumb...

But for every drop there is an open receiver being completely ignored and/or missed.
For every good run Bortles makes with his legs there's a bad pass or INT...

He's just not good enough to keep making excuses for him, imo.
He isn't the worst I've ever seen and I really don't wanna be one of those posters that just bags on him all the time... but I'm so over the Blake Bortles project.

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