Caldwell can stew all he wants. He has no idea what he just did, and his perception-building fiends aren't going to successfully combat the tidal wave of public opinion. Bortles starts year one, game one.

 

If he doesn't start right away, Bortles becomes a bust on the scale of Ryan Leaf.

 

Obviously, the team spread their intent to select Bortles around the media well in advance of the draft. Their cronies in the media blend in really well. The difference is the only media people that like/approve of the Bortles pick are the Gator-infested media (decent side money in a down year for Florida football) and franchise cronies embedded in the national media.

 

The effect the Gator worms and cronies have results in instantaneous neutral opinion.

 

For example this clever way of understating the necessary pick pan from SI:

 

Reaches


• Blake Bortles, Jacksonville (No. 3): The Jaguars had to find a quarterback, and it is of critical importance that a team in such a situation lands the exact guy it wants. Clearly, Jacksonville was keen on Bortles.


The confidence in this pick may be worthwhile in a couple of years, once Bortles inches closer to his full potential. But he does have a lot of work to do before he gets there, and the Jaguars passed on Manziel, Bridgewater, Sammy Watkins, Mack and others to get him. This was a very early gamble for a team that had plenty of choices.

 

http://nfl.si.com/2014/05/09/nfl-draft-s...alil-mack/

 

Calling the pick a reach is a kinder, gentler way of stating Bortles is a bust right out of the box.

 

The most revolting thing for the American public to consider is the skill and know-how inside the media as to knowing the truth and deliberately play a game of deception with it. They laugh at our ignorance.

 

The TU worms are the lowest form of life on earth. Not only did they create Blakenstein and shove him on the Jaguars, once the team was hit by rotten tomatoes, they washed their instigating-filthy hands within an hour or so of the public disclosure of the Bortles pick.

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