Quote:First deep attempt Sunday.  Hurns runs the wrong route, Blake takes a hard hit and it's nearly an INT.  Definitely should have done THAT more.



 

You need to stop discounting the rookie being a rookie and also consider the starting WR lineup of Rookie, Undrafted Rookie, Brown. 

 

 

Mistakes will happen on those deeper plays once in awhile. Let them happen. The only way you get better on these is through repetition. 

 

The deeper routes need to happen on a more consistent basis (I'd say average one per quarter or so) or else the defense will be sitting all over the Jags offense like it did in the past 6 quarters of football. (2nd half Chargers/ 4 Q of Steelers)

 

 

Quote:I'll also say that Jedd's playcalling probably isn't a result of Bortles interceptions, and more a result of our young WR's.   It's not that he doesn't trust Bortles, it's that he doesn't trust the receivers.  Who are mostly Rookies, who have run the wrong routes at times.  I don't think the playcalling will ultimately turn Bortles Henne-like.  He's not going to regress because of hampered playcalling.  He doesn't seem like that type of player to me.


I know people hate bringing up Manning, but I'm going to do it anyway:


In his first year, Manning had some pretty weak YPA games, including a sub 4 YPA against the Dolphins.  

 

Dumb the routes down if you temporarily have to - but throwing mostly everything short as they have in the past 6 Quarters sn't doing any favors for Bortles or the offense as a whole. 

 

Quote:Mmm.  Okay.

 

FYI - Bortles took the blame for checking out of that play that ended in a pick 6. 

 

He took the blame for the audible yes. IMO, thats like blaming a damn bursting on a heavy rain rather than the failed inspection leading up to that event 6 months prior. 

 

The pick 6 happened IMO, because the culmination of too many shorter pass routes that the defense finally jumped one do to the predictability of where the ball was going. 

 

Quote:This thread made history. This is the first time I've ever heard that a guy has regressed in his rookie season.

 

Regress as to his style of play - if you can't see a difference from the gunslinger we saw in his first 5 appearances to a closer to Henne-like thing over the past 6 QUarters then I can't help you. 

 

I'm guessing they are getting on him too much over the INT's which is causing him to be more reluctant to throw as many deeper passes as the first 5 appearances or the plays called have changed, for the same/ similar reason. 

 

In either case, its (shorting the length of pass attempts) not helping Bortles succeed. 

 

 

 

Quote:Throwing poo at the wall again I see.


Gus said pretty much the exact opposite. They want him to make better decisions but don't want to put fear in his game and neuter his aggressiveness.


FF to 3:48

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Gus' rhetoric is just that. I remember Jack Del Rio also saying "no more 3 yards and a cloud of dust" offense, when that kind of offense was EXACTLY the kind he preferred. 

 

 

 

I'll go by what I see the QB doing on the field. 

 

Bortles looks to be neutered over the last 6 Quarters of football. 

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