(10-23-2018, 10:41 AM)Kane Wrote:

(10-21-2018, 12:40 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: Its funny that "not working" means 1st place in the division with a brutally injured roster.

You're being disingenuous about the brutally injured roster.
4 out of 5 OL starters have played the majority of the season.
We were "better without Fournette" until we weren't.
The bad QB play is solely on the QB.

It isn't all on Bortles but surely you can not think that he is the answer long term and we should totally ignore the position for another season or two?
Even if we keep him, don't cut him, we should have a 1st round QB waiting. Just like KC did. If Bortles is good enough, the kid waits, if not, we move on.

Kessler is not the answer. Teddy is not the answer. Tyrod is not the answer...
But Bortles is not the answer.

Will a QB magically fix all of our other issues? No. Can he mask some? If he's good enough he can. The best ones do.

Also... now in 3rd place with clots improving and winning, so last in the worst division (again) is looking like a real possibility

5 out of 5 OL starters are injured (ACL, Foot, Back, Triceps, Knee from left to right), they're playing on grit and spit.  Lee, ASJ (and his 2 backups fwiw), LF27, Grant; this offense that was just ok to start with those guys is flat out bad without them. Bortles isn't the answer, but he's also not really the question. You think his play isn't somewhat based on the worst LT in football, a decimated running back corps, and the maddening stone hands of his top 3 receivers?. Sometimes you just lose a year to injury, that doesn't meant the window is closed or that we should be in full panic mode. If they go with a new QB next season fine, but don't give away the future trying to salvage an unsalvageable present. All the pissing and moaning about firing people, and draft busts, and quitting is such an overreaction, it's like no one has ever experienced adversity before. Unfulfilled expectations are poison for the soul.

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