(02-02-2018, 12:49 AM)Eric1 Wrote: I just can't comprehend some of the logic that gets thrown around on this forum. Everybody that down talked Bortles all season long, saying he was the worst starting QB in the league blah blah blah. Are now flipping their tone saying he's going to demand a contract similar to the one Cousins' about to get.

Literally went from saying he's terrible and will soon be out of the league before this season. To saying that he hit his peak and hes average at best after the AFC Championship game. To now saying he'll command top dollar next off season, simply because they want Cousins and are trying to justify paying him that.

We're saying Blake is average right now and that IF he takes the step forward that the people who want him to stay are expecting him to make THEN he will demand a contract like that. Here are the 3 options:

1. We sign Cousins and have a safe but expensive franchise QB for the foreseeable future.
2. Bortles succeeds and we save a little money in 2018 only. Then we pay him and have an expensive franchise QB for the forseeable future.
3. Bortles fails and we waste a year of prime championship caliber window AND we don't have a franchise QB.

There is no real option where keeping Bortles now instead of paying Cousins give us upside. It's even or worse, much worse.

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