I had no idea about this.  The article quotes Hackett as saying that last game, against the Seahawks, Bortles was allowed to audible from a run to a pass, for the first time ever!  Seriously?  I mean, when a team lines up with 8 men in the box, Bortles was not allowed to audible to a pass play until the 13th game of the season?  This explains a lot, like in earlier games, I remember teams lining up in a goal line defense on our first offensive play of the game, and we diidn't run a pass play in response.  We just ran right into the teeth of it.

This seems pretty important to me- to line up against an 8 man front and audible to a pass play. 

I guess there are two ways to look at this.  1) Gee whiz, what were we doing for 12 games.  Or 2) Thank God, we're finally taking the training wheels off. 

Seems like this could make our offense a LOT more effective.  

https://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/nfl-...ast-121517

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