(10-18-2019, 09:44 AM)Caldrac Wrote:

(10-18-2019, 09:36 AM)Cleatwood Wrote: In fairness, Bortles did not play "pretty damn good" in his 3 playoff games. He was atrocious against Buffalo. 54% completion for 214 and one wide open TD against Pitt. Then had a decent game against a NE defense that got absolutely shredded in the SB.

A FO that thinks that is "turning a corner" has issues.

Bortles also ran his [BLEEP] off against Buffalo and picked up first down's when he could and didn't turn the football over. He also had more than just a few wide open TD passes against Pittsburgh. The defense started strong and then started falling apart late and he kept responding on offense. The coaching staff got overly conservative in New England and that's that. 

Once again, you just love being a contrarian but that's fine. We get it. NE's defense got shredded by a better overall offense and by a football coach that [BLEEP] gambled like 2, 3 times on 4th downs to win it. Hindsight is 20/20. But if I was willing to go back deep enough to see the comments during that AFC Championship run you were probably all aboard the "turning the corner" thing with Ba-la-kay Bortles mantra going on around here. 

And could you really blame anybody for that? What were they supposed to do after that year? Take Lamar Jackson? So he could have been absolutely [BLEEP] hammered behind a really, really poor offensive line in 2018? They can't predict everything.

How is it being a contrarian? lol

Bortles was terrible for the Buffalo game and to say otherwise is foolish. I mean he didn't even throw for 100 yards. He also didn't have "a few" wide open TD passes. He had 1. 1 TD pass in the Pitt game after the defense helped give the team a 28-7 lead. And that NE defense was bad. They gave up 254 and 2 TDs to Mariota in the playoffs as well and Mariota is garbage too.

The mistake was made in the 2017 draft by taking Fournette (who looks good now) instead of Watson/Mahomes. They chose Bortles and then doubled down on that mistake by giving him an extension.

My main point here is that this FO should give no one the confidence that the moves they make are the right ones. 1 winning season (in a year where they played backup QBs the majority of the time) in the past what.... 10+ years?

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