(10-31-2018, 01:10 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

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

Last year worked, absolutely. They managed to hide their QB and won with their defense and run game.  Taken in a vacuum, I have no faults with that approach. The issues lies with "what comes next?". 


Blake and 80% of the starting team has regressed. The injury bug bug is an issue, the line is an issue but most of all the QB spot is the biggest problem on the team right now for the simple reason is once you hit adversity you are left with a well below average QB. His mechanics are back to terrible too. Can he rebound? Perhaps but it seems pretty clear that Blake is who is he and that caps the teams ceiling. 

So although 2017 was great, Coughlins job is to ensure continued and repeated success and Blake is not conducive to that. He has had multiple chances to replace him but chose to stick by him. Also, I was cautiously optimistic about Blake taking another step forward this year and putting himself in that Dalton range but it hasn't happened.

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