Quote: The most important thing that this staff MUST not mess up is the QB- Bortles, and IMO, it appears they are doing just that. 

 

Look at Bortles play in preseason, and then the 3 games this season. He's clearly regressing. His YPA went from consistently in the 9's or above in all preseason games as well as the 2nd half of the Indy game, to 7.8 two weeks ago to Gabbert-like 5.3 last week. You can't tell me that Bortles this past Sunday is resembling ANYTHING like the gunslinger that we saw in his first 5 appearances. 

 

IMO, why this is happening is because the coaching staff is overreacting to the INT's he's throwing and shortening the pass play routes which isn't doing anything but hurting him. 

 

That pick 6 against the Steelers last week was on Fisch just as much as it was on Blake. What do you expect to happen when every pass play you call is a shorter route???? Eventually the defense is going to jump one of them and you get what happened. 

 

They threw one stinking deep pass attempt last week for the ENTIRE game and it was picked off, so then Fisch totally abandoned it. Thats not how you help a young QB. They should be trying about one deep pass every quarter, just to keep the defense honest. Otherwise, all you are doing is helping makie the defenses life easier and hurting the development of your own QB. I remember Andy Reid would take a deep shot downfield with McNabb just about every 8-10 attempts (on average) - to keep the defense from bunching up and playing the game in a 10-15 yard box. 

 

 

If things don't improve drastically, and soon, I am hoping Khan is investigating the availability of a proven winner like Jim Harbaugh at seasons end. Harbaugh has head coaching experience, has been susccessful and seems to get the most out of his QB's. (Alex Smith) and even Kap. 

Bortles regression over the past few weeks; has more to do with him going up against actual legit 1st team defenses, than the 3rd to 2nd string defenses that we grew accustomed to seeing him pick apart during the preseason. I agree that Fisch and Babich have got to go soon, but I don't think that this is entirely Bradley's fault

either. The only way that I could conceivably see Bradley being fired at the end of the season, would be if the team finished 0-16, or finished with a record less than 4-12.

 

 

Now if there's anyone at the top who deserves any criticism, its Shad Khan himself.

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