(10-28-2018, 12:28 PM)jagman Wrote: Does anyone on this board agree with me when I say Blake is not the only problem. The play calling is bush league. For some reason they refuse to run the ball and our defense is way over-rated.

It's impossible to put this game on Blake. for the most part he was accurate, he protected the football (0 turnovers), made a few nice throws, extended plays/drives with his legs. And on top of all of that WR's dropped passes Cole & Chark in the endzone, killing drives with that fumble (Cole...) and they had trouble protecting Bortles allllll dayyyy, Walker looked like a 3rd string LT. We're too depleted to be effective. Bortles showed when he has a healthy line and the skill players around him dont shoot themselves in the foot.. we can beat good teams like the Patriots. Bortles can be good but we need to do a better job protecting him, protecting the football and executing the basics of football like gee idk catching the football. Blake has his meltdown turnover games when he feels he needs to do too much and make a play because nothing else is happening around him. Blake has been successful and I believe he can be successful.

Defensively we're good just not deep. We need a new NT, and maybe a heavier LB because we get run on in the teeth of our defense far too often. We're really thin at CB, Jalen & Bouye have been playing hurt, we were 2-0 in games Hayden played, Patmon looked solid especially for a 4th CB and young player, Meeks showed me a lot today ... so of course him and Patmon are now hurt. The pass rush gets pressure but doesn't finish rushes, and gets too undisciplined in their rush lanes which allows the QB to bust out and move the chains for chunk plays. They also aren't really finishing the catch on Interceptions, fumbles get called the other way or "down" bc that's our luck. They need the offense to get more time of possesion to keep them fresh bc we're already starting our backups... there is no one to rotate to to keep them fresh if our offense can only muster a handful of plays before a kick.

We just don't have the depth to sustain injuries that plague specific positions. LT's, TE's, RB & CB like those 4 units are all decimated and there are other bangups here and there. It's just not our year, if you can upgrade the CB without giving up too much... yea go for it. But otherwise help is not on the way, we can win with blake if we invest more in our Oline & depth, and actually RUN THE BALL. Fournette and Hyde can be a 2007 type rushing attack, lets just give them the ball.

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