Quote:Let's not kid ourselves, the Jags/Bears game was the game of the week because of Blake Bortles just like the Browns and Johnny next week.  The NFL is a QB league, a business first and foremost.  Forget the nice storyline about grooming the QB.  He will be starting much sooner than later.   

 

We are grooming the QB.  He's advancing at his own pace, which is ahead of schedule.

 

If there's any "storyline" here to temper it's the bandwagon the media is drumming up about Bortles play so far.  Worry less about what the media is saying and pay more attention to what the coaches are saying.  What he's done so far means nothing compared to the opportunity he's earned with the ones.  Let's not celebrate before the evaluation is complete, but he has earned time with the one's that he likely wasn't expected to have earned if they were to continue down the "redshirt" path.

 

What it means is, their timeline has now become flexible and the "redshirt" is not a given.  That's a beginning, not an end, of a change in their evaluation process.

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