Quote:Unless you're in the meetings during the preseason to know what the focus of the play calling will be for any preseason game, you have no idea what they were working on with either player out there on the field.  One thing we do know is that they didn't really game plan for these games beyond a minimal bit of scripting for the 3rd game. 

 

You act like Atlanta trotted out their starting defense AND their entire defensive playbook in that 4th game.  That wasn't the case.  Bortles did face the first team defense, but they weren't throwing anything at him that was even remotely close to what he'd expect to see for a regular season game. 

 

Tony Boselli was just talking about that this morning saying anyone who is using preseason performance as the end all for determining how ready a player is doesn't really have a clue what they're watching.  That's a guy who played in the league at a very high level who is saying that preseason performances are nice, but they're not necessarily indicative of what you should expect when the games count. 

 

Tony thinks the team should move to start Bortles sooner rather than later, but he said that it's not based on what he did in the preseason.  He also said that as a player, he completely understands the approach they're taking, and appreciates the fact that this staff is trying to look out for a player and allow him to develop instead of just throwing him to the wolves.  Pardon me if I take his opinion of practice games performance with a little more regard than, well, yours.