(04-04-2019, 05:20 PM)sfljaguarsfan Wrote: Here's a example https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/bla...bage-time/

Still amazing to me that you claim to be a fan and watch the games but somehow have managed to not see this phenomenon take place. Did you only become during the afc game run?

Your example includes in its definition of 'garbage time' games where the Jaguars ended up with the ball less than a score down. That's not garbage time, and is a prime example of looking at the stats at a high level and completely ignoring the detail.

It's also worth pointing out that it's not something that happened after those years. Bortles barely even shows up on those ratings in 2017-2018. Russel Wilson and Drew Brees are way up there. Closely followed by Nick Foles (albeit on a smaller sample size). Is Russell Wilson the Tom Brady of garbage time? Because his QB rating in those situations was far higher than Bortles' had been in 2015-2016.

But I don't see a million articles about how Drew Brees is a garbage time prodigy. And, as you point out, they are there about Bortles. Why do you think that is?

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