Quote:Yes, I can see why that's confusing for you.  So what they're talking about is his mechanical flaws leading to the wobblers and off-target passes.  He seemed to have made amazing progress by late pre-season, and even early in his regular season debut.  Lately those issues are resurfacing. 

 

So when you improve on something like mechanics, you're said to have "progressed".  When you then slide back to begin making those mistakes again, you're said to have "regressed". 

 

Hope that helps.

 

You know that's not actually regressing right? If is he making the same mistakes now that he made before, then the progress was never actually, consistently, and permanently there.

 

If Bortles is still having issues with his mechanics, then he never effectively and permanently improved on them. (That's too be understood given the circumstances; muscle memory doesn't simply change that easily).

 

Pro tip, NFL rookies don't "progress" or "regress" on a week-to-week basis, and if that's how you're looking at it, your analysis is too myopic.

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