(01-19-2018, 09:39 PM)atburg Wrote:

(01-19-2018, 09:09 PM)Inziladun Wrote: I initially liked Bortles coming out of college all the way up to the 2016 season. At the time it seemed apparent to me that he didn't have it and his basic mechanics were ruined. This season completely reversed my perception of him. His mechanics are better, he's making strides and last week he played absolutely outstanding. He's earned his extension, it makes more sense for the team to keep him and evaluate his play next year. It's entirely possible he takes the next step and plays with a little more consistency and puts on a few shows like we saw last week. He has 4-5 games like that a season and comes in big during most of the big games there's really noone to upgrade him with outside obvious big names that we can't even get.

QBs take the longest out of any position to develop. If we let him walk I promise you there are plenty of teams that'll happily take him at this point. If we can make it to the Superbowl with Blake then I don't see why people will be so eager to get rid of him.

Compared to last season, the number of "get rid of him" posters has gone way down.

Let me make this clear, I'm not in the "get rid of him" category. I'm in the "we need a viable, immediate alternative plan", category. I just want to add real competition at the QB position. I'm not advocating cutting Bortles. I did at one point, but he deserves to stay throughout his current contract. I just want him to be able to fight off a real threat for his job and be more consistent. Who knows, it might push him to be better. So far, he's had absolutely no competition at QB, in his time here.

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