(12-15-2020, 06:11 PM)leopold332002 Wrote:

(12-15-2020, 01:44 PM)HandsomeRob86 Wrote: You have to be kidding. Garrard was absolutely better than Bortles. Way more accurate, way more reliable. Garrard was the only QB we had in the last 10 years who I felt like we had a chance on 3rd down consistently. Bortles was the product of the strong team around him in 2017. If Garrard had that team we wouldn’t have been kneeling to end the half.

In all due respect, go back and look at David Garrard completion percentage which was very similar to Blake and David Garrard route tree was very limited. Go back and look at David Garrard film he threw a lot of Slants, 5 yard button hooks, and occasionally a seam route. He fed off the running game and was a perfect game manager but I never asked David Garrard to go out and win games for the team.

Also, do not blame Blake Bortles 4 Doug Marrone cowardness in the AFC Championship game. Doug Marrone sat on his Laurel instead of trusting his quarterback to make the plays like he did in the previous week versus the Pittsburgh Steelers. Is a reason why that Doug Marrone is going to be fired at the end of this year because he's not a good coach at all

This is so misleading. Garrard had Reggie Williams, Dennis Northcutt & Matt Jones who all couldn't catch a cold let alone get open/separation on their routes; anyone remember the AFC Divisional round where Dave put the ball on their hands in the endzone and it was just flat out dropped each time? Garrard's best throw was the slant but he could hit every throw in an nfl playbook, we didn't have the receivers to take advantage of some routes so Koetter didn't dial them up, Garrard in 2010 routinely won us games to get the team to 8-8 while the Defense was putrid. Give Garrard Allen Robinson & Allen Hurns from 2015 and he'd look like Drew Brees.

In no universe is Bortles better than Garrard. Also we really downplay how good Garrard was around here, he wasn't just a game manager he was a top half QB in the league for a while.

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