Quote:While I do not say the OP does not know football, I agree with you generally.

 

As I indicated earlier, his picks seem to follow a pattern.  The first pick is him making a reasonable gamble his receiver will either come through and make the play for him, or at least stop the defender from making the play.  The second pick is always a [BAD WORD REMOVED] kind of throw.  I'm wondering if desperation/frustration/impatience is contributing to those picks.

i agree with this

everything is on bortles right now, which really is not the no pressure environment bradley envisaged for him

he may have more picks than gabbert but i can tell you we have seen more playmaking ability from him than we ever saw from gabbert or henne. Bortles elevates those around him and pulls plays out of his [BLEEP] on a regular basis so a few bad picks two games in are not going to convince me he can't get it together. 

 

the defense can't get off the field, we got lucky today in my view but generally our third down defense is shocking and bortles is desperately trying to make plays regularly out of nothing.

 

He is leading this team and sadly unlike luck he doesn't have the luxury of a reggie wayne to help him. Imagine stafford without his megatron blankie or even big ben without antonio brown. With rookies all over the field bortles doesn't have that guy who can make those big plays like the brown 30 yard catch today. The down the sideline pick, if that had been brown or keenan allen they come down with that or at least knocked the ball away but those deep passes that bortles loves to throw are not in robinsons armory right now. I think thats more marquise lee's skillset

 

Anyway I don't think you can curb the ints ever as i believe he will always be a 2 td 1 int or 3 td 1 int kind of guy. He pushes the ball down the field and takes risky shots which sometimes come off and sometimes don't and if you curtail that and tell him to start checking it down i think you loose part of what makes him special. 

 

it's a tough situation and though i may be well off with my 6 and 10 prediction this year I think bortles will improve with experience so i'm still banging the 8-8 drum for next year.

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