(04-10-2018, 09:08 AM)RedRooster28 Wrote: I mean this with no disrespect to anyone else’s analysis, but I find it hard to understand how anyone could view Mariota at this point as being more of “what you want” from the QB position than Bortles.

He doesn’t have the availability (HUGE at QB) or the production.  I really don’t get it.  Again, no disrespect, and I’m not leopold, I don’t think Blake is the 2nd coming of the Lord, but to me he’s clearly above Mariota.  Like significantly.

Maybe I’m trippin.  Guess we’ll see.

I agree with you, but it's not like Bortles has spent his career convincing everyone he's great, he's been way up and down.

Mariota has had a fortunate career statistically, he managed to miss every game against JJ Watt when he was still any good, for instance. So while Bortles played against great defenses and had bad games on a bad team, Mariota didn't have to take a statistical hit in those games.

So while Mariota's stats have looked good, they look more like the stats of a guy like Alex Smith than the stats of a guy like Russell Wilson. He can get the take what they give stats, especially against bad teams that the titans are running on, but against the great teams he doesn't carry his team. The New  England playoff game is an excellent example of that.

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