Quote:If the pocket is consistently collapsing, why not call a roll out? Bortles showed in the preseason his strengths are his ability to be mobile and keep his eye up the field. If this is his learning year, what's the point of giving him plays he can't check out of at all? Isn't it better to have him make mistakes, then I dunno, learn from them? Why "dumb down the playbook", when the only thing we have to gain is his on field knowledge of the playbook!? Our young WRs too, what will they gain by repeatedly painting from a limited palette? 

 

Henne was horrible in his attempts to be a game manager and conservative QB. Now Fisch is doing his best to mold Bortles in Henne's image, to the detriment of the team. He's ignoring why we got the guy in the first place. Good OCs can build a playbook around their QBs strengths, and craft plays that add to it. Fisch is asking a rookie what he feels comfortable with, then scrapping the rest, what is that!? No one is going to learn anything by sticking with what is comfortable. Jedd's job is to evaluate the man and show him what he can do, not box him into what feels safe.

 

Part of this rebuild is seeing what works and getting rid of what doesn't. If this holds true, it's obvious that Fisch and Mallory need to be replaced.