(12-15-2018, 03:28 AM)haveaseat Wrote: Dave Caldwell doubles down on Blake Bortles because he was his draft pick. He knows this team was built on running the ball and defense. He didn’t bring any legitimate competition through free agency or the draft. He deserves to be fired. He’s whiffed too hard and often. It’s disgusting he still has a job.

I don't fully understand this logic.

Yes, I understand that QB is a glaring weakness for us.

But as I look at the standings, I see Atlanta (Matt Ryan), Detroit (Matt Stafford), Tampa (Jameis Winston and Fitz), and Green Bay (Aaron Rodgers) with QB situations better-if not much better- than ours, yet those teams have only one more win than we have.  Okay the Packers have one and a half more wins.

Looking further, the standings show there are teams like Denver, Miami and Baltimore with demonstrably inferior QBs to the teams I just listed above with demonstrably superior records to these same teams.

But it begs the question, is the difference between a great (or even good) QB and our QB worth only a game-game and a half in a double digit losing season?

It seems to me, these other teams (even excluding Tampa from the analysis) show that a good or even a great QB is no panacea for all that ails a team, conversely, a sufficiently stocked/healthy team that lacks the great QB can outperform the team with a great QB but little else.

With that in mind, I don't fully get the zeal to throw Caldwell under the bus for this season because we had Bortles under C, when there's no guarantee we would have done significantly better with a better QB, especially given our injuries along the offensive line.

Would we as a fan base be any less disappointed if we were sitting at 5-9 at this stage with a better QB?

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