(04-07-2018, 08:18 AM)JagsFansince1995 Wrote:

(04-05-2018, 08:21 AM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: Saying you want to run the ball every down, doesn't mean you want the QB to run the ball. His job is to hand the ball off. The reason Bortles ran more towards the end of the season, is because the coaching staff didn't trust him to throw the ball in key situations. If we trusted him to throw, he'd be sitting in the pocket, trying to find open receivers. The reason Marrone mentioned running the ball on every down, is because he doesn't have his ideal QB that he can trust to make big plays through the air in key situations. The RPO is not a scheme shift do to want, it's a scheme we utilize due to current necessity.

So you honestly believe that Bortles scrambling ability is because he aborts sitting in the pocket to find open receivers because coach said so.......He makes his share of mistakes when receivers are open and he chooses to run; but I highly doubt, Marrone told him to run instead of staying in the pocket to find open receivers on passing plays.  I just cant rn

I think he has some natural running ability, but I think he is told to avoid long throws, because the coaching staff doesn't trust him. I believe they tell him, when in doubt, run and when you know you aren't trusted by the coaching staff to do certain things, you can lose confidence in yourself. This in turn, makes him run more. He never ran so much in the first couple of years in the NFL or in college, but the more criticism he got, the more he started to run.

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