(01-08-2024, 12:28 PM)The Eleventh Doctor Wrote:

(01-08-2024, 12:13 PM)ChrisJagBoy Wrote: True, Bortles sucked. But he still scored more often than Trevor.

Easy to score in Garbage Time.

A lot of Bortles stats came in Garbage time. I feel people forget this, and it's why stats don't tell the whole story.

Exactly. That one year where Bortles had 35 TD's to 17 INT's was mostly produced in garbage time. I remember that year, late in the 4th quarter. He throws a 90 yard TD to Allen Robinson against the Saints in New Orleans. Great pass. For being down by 30 points against a practice squad quality corner there.

This is where I get a little pissed off from my perspective. You get a lot of bottom line readers and box score readers that don't actually watch the game, they don't actually see the battle flow nor the typical downs and distances that all lead into these issues and up's and down's and twist's and turns. 

The Bortles and Gabbert era's were dark. With one good year that was carried by a stout defense that feasted on an underwhelming schedule with QB challenged teams and a promising rookie season debut by Fournette and some help from Yeldon and Grant. There was nothing overly special about that 2017 season other than the defense playing out of it's mind and Bortles managing to play like Joe Flacco in the post season. 

Lawrence is far from perfect. We all know that. This roster and coaching staff is all far from perfect and the decision makers in the personnel department are not helping. So, again, it's overreaction Monday for 90% of the MSM, the local's and this diehard fanbase. I get it.

Ultimately. Everybody needs to play better. Nobody is absolved from this. Not even our best football players. Where was Josh Allen on defense yesterday? Where was Oluokon? Where was Walker? We needed those guys the most in crunch time and they ultimately weren't enough with the other eight starters on defense to overcome a 28 point deficit. 

They allowed a 6 win team to dictate the terms of battle from the very first whistle. Period. They ran it right up our [BLEEP]. What did our defense do? They bent over and said "Right this way please". You gave Henry his best game of the season yesterday. And everybody KNEW it was coming and they KNEW he was going to get fed the football and they did NOTHING to stop it.

Nobody deserves a pass for this disaster. Nobody.

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