Sometimes, it gets worse before it gets better. The Jags NEVER came out and said they would win the division THIS YEAR. The entire Jags organization knew this would be a process. Process as in years, not a few games. What we are seeing is the worse before it gets better cycle. What many of us didn't expect was just how worse. However, this team is NOT the team it was after the first 3-4 games although the wins / losses does not reflect that. The OL has improved and the defensive front four are among the tops in the NFL in sacks. They are the real deal. The linebacking and safety core are a works in progress. However, the LARGEST growing pains belongs solely to the Offense. At the head of that is Blake Bortles who is proving week in and week out that he is indeed a rookie. The true question however is this: Is he improving or digressing? Is he making the same dumb mistakes week in and week out simply because he's a rookie or is there "something" fundamentally flawed with him as a player. Is he a player along the lines of Christian Ponder who simply doesn't have the "right stuff" in their emotional make-up to be a top flight QB? That's hard to say because he has moments of sparkle and just as fast slips into yet another dumb mistake. However he develops, one thing is certain............Blake Bortles is NOT afraid to sling it (much like Bret Favre) but to his detriment, he will sling it in ill advised situations when the risk of being intercepted is high. Blake Bortles needs to LEARN when to sling it away and tuck it away and take the sack. Throwing into double coverage a majority of the time is not just a rookie mistake. it is flat out DUMB and can become a very bad habit, which is exactly what happened to Chritian Ponder in Minnesota. Ponder was brought to the party to soon, and I suspect it did serious damage to his confidence and now he rides the bench. How Bortles comes out next season will determine if this too has happened to him. 

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