(10-31-2018, 12:50 PM)JackCity Wrote:

(10-31-2018, 12:16 PM)FBT Wrote: Coughlin will have the ultimate say on the next QB, so it really doesn't matter how much trust we have in Caldwell.

Toms already failed in his first test of addressing the QB spot. Can he rebound? We shall see.

There's a few ways to look at this. 

They clearly weighed their options last year upon TC's arrival and decided upon building something defensive and run-centric that could win with a guy like Bortles under center. 
Well, they kinda didn't fail at that in year one.  They went to the AFCCG and damn near won it. Would you put that loss on Blake Bortles?  I'd give him maybe a 30% share of the blame, if that. 

This year:  Slightly different story, but not by much. The first eight games of last season featured a similar amount of Good Blake vs Bad Blake as what we've seen this season. He was very hot and cold then as well, yet they were winning enough to stay in the hunt.  The difference right now seems to be the o-line play and inuries there as well as all over the roster. 

God knows I'm no big Blake advocate, I didn't want a RB picked that high, and I'm not even all that high on Coughlin really, but they were making that formula work pretty well there for a while. 

Clearly it's not sustainable -  and having a QB that requires so many A+ elements around him for success is hopefully not the plan moving forward  - but the approach (even if I didn't like it)  wasn't really a failure until the injury bug came to town.

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