(04-14-2018, 09:51 AM)nate Wrote:

(04-13-2018, 11:35 AM)NYC4jags Wrote: When it comes to this Blake vs Luck thing, it's not about the stats and W/L column you are comparing here. 

It's about watching two NFL QBs go through their progressions and throw the football. One of them appears to simply be smarter and more accurate doing those things.  (appeared  to be at one point in time anyway)
Of course - that guy may never be able to throw the football that way again for all we know right now, so it's a rather pointless argument. 

I'm very glad we have a guy that is so durable and is showing marked improvement - and I don't really care that Luck looked better than him X years ago before injury.  Arrow is up for the Jags at the QB position.  It's a bit more uncertain for the rest of the division and that's a good thing for us.

I think people need to go look at Luck's post season stats compared to Bortles, then look at Luck's turnovers as well, throughout his career.

Also, career completion percentage:

Luck:   59.2
Bortles 59.1

I'd say Bortles is a better runner as well, but that's pretty close overall.

Again, I appreciate all the stat comparisons, but answer two simple questions for me if you will.

Does Blake Bortles throw the ball as well as a healthy Andrew Luck? 
Does Blake Bortles make better decisions with the football than Andrew Luck? 

Yes - It's all completely  ridiculous and moot until Luck proves he's even capable of being half the passer he once was, but do people quoting these stats really think Blake is on a level playing field with a 2014 Luck? 

I submit that in his upcoming fifth year Blake has a chance at getting closer to that than ever before, but he has not shown me the ability I saw from luck in 2014 yet. Maybe he will. I'd love that. It really could happen.  But I'm not going to pretend that what Luck did that season wasn't better than we've seen from Bortles. 

Bortles under Hackett has reduced the number of poor decisions significantly, largely because many of them have been taken out of his hands IMO. Perhaps if he'd had a consistent and capable OC in his early seasons he wouldn't have thrown so many drive ending incompletions and so many loss-sealing INTs. That's worth considering. But he DID do those things. And he did it way too much for me to sit here and compare his stats to Luck's without reminding folks about how painful that was to watch.

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