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Caldrac · 01-08-2024, 03:16 PM

(01-08-2024, 01:40 PM)ChrisJagBoy Wrote:
(01-08-2024, 12:50 PM)Caldrac Wrote: Been down this rabbit hole already with Bortles and situational football. I am not going back down it. Feel free to dig through his game logs on pro-football-reference.com to find the same conclusions I found years ago.

Bortles had opportunities to keep his job, he found some job opportunities around the NFL in a back-up capacity. He ultimately faded into obscurity after one little brief moment in the sun.

I liked the guy. He had a fun personality, had some great soundbites, but, he was just a little too Joe Cool and laidback without the actual gusto and wins to support it. No harm, no foul. Same feelings I had for Gardner Minshew. Cool guy, just falls a little short when it matters the most.

I think you're mistaking my dissapointment in Trevor with Bortles praise.

Bortles was terrible. Trevor has been bad too.

No. I get it. Both guys were or have been turnover prone. It's something that needs to be addressed heavily in the off season with Lawrence as well. It's a process. Going into year four it needs to be less of a process and more of an automatic, regardless of circumstance or personnel challenges.

Do. Not. Make. A. Bad. Situation. Worse.

It's either there or it's not there. More Checkdown Charlie. Less Ragtime Randy. He needs to also hit the deck more when he's running around out there and he needs to keep two hands on the football.

Not sure what he does in the off season to stay or tune up his football mechanics but he might want to incorporate a lot of bail out running scenarios and multiple practice personnel around him with heavily padded broomsticks trying to whack the football out of his hands or arms.

Also would like to see use ladders in front of him in drop back passing scenarios. To get more air under the football on deep shots. Had a few get away from him this season and it noticeably hurt. At one point he was one of the better, if not, the best deep ball passer in the NFL QB rating wise.

Not sure where he finished out there now.

"What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs - I was a man before I was a king."