Quote:I did.. Because I'm not giving into some knee jerk reaction and risk the chance of ruining our franchise QB (ala Gabbert) before this O-line is fixed and Bortles is ready. This isn't Madden..

This was an excuse we made to justify Gabbert being bad. And I was a huge supporter of him, but he was just plain bad regardless.


Also, the line pass protects fine. Especially with Bortles pocket presence. He's not going to be sacked a million times like David Carr was, and he's flat out better than Henne.


I understood the "let him develop" mentality on draft day, but he just thrives on the field. With what looks to be a monster def, if he can make out offense at least mildly effiecient we'd be in a great place. And I think he'd do more than that. We would have won yesterday with him. I stand by that 100%.

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