The quarterback fear with this team is real. There were always people saying "wait til next year"..... now it's "oh.... he has looked good, but everything isn't perfect around him, so he can't play yet. Let's just concede some games with Henne first". And that's exactly what will happen. Games with Bortles on the bench are essentially forfeits at this point. At best, Chad can play well enough not to lose games. Yards per attempt means something.... and when you're average hovers around 6, that's not good.

 

Alfie did some charting this preseason, and it's striking how few passes he threw beyond 10 yards. The ONLY memorable throw I can remember him making was that one to Mike Brown in the Chicago game. He missed the target on most of the other deeper ones (and often the target was wide open).

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