(10-21-2018, 08:59 PM)Bullseye Wrote:

(10-07-2018, 06:08 PM)Krayz_Jville_D Wrote: hes right, a lot of bad moves.. keeping bortles was a massive mistake.. one that is likely to haunt us especially if we cut multiple defensive players after this season

the defense was EXPOSED today.. they are good, but they are not nearly as good as they think, or even some of us.  A lot of that I think is scheme, I think rushing 4 constantly and sitting in zone is just a waste of our talent

however, it is clearly the offense that continues to hold this team back in a massive way

we are going NO WHERE with this QB

Question:  Assuming we signed Cousins this past offseason, and we had the same slew of injuries we had on the offensive side of the ball, how effective would he be?

Would he be more effective than Bortles?  Not a stretch to suggest he would be.

But would he have been effective enough for us to have beaten KC...or Dallas the way the defense performed?

Would he have held up against the pass rush we saw today?

I think at the end of the day, we could have signed him to the same $84 million contract and have been just as disappointed with the results this year, because QBs still need a surrounding cast to succeed.

The difference is we would fall just as short of the Super Bowl this year as we are now, only we'd lose more of our defense.  We'd be better at QB, but ultimately not much closer to winning it all.