Quote:<div>Bortles' career began with significant playing time (24 passes) against Indianapolis in Week 3, and he has started every game for the Jaguars since. Only once in those ten starts has he finished above replacement level. No, this is not what you'd expect from the third overall pick. He's on pace to finish somewhere south of -900 DYAR passing, a threshold that has been broken only twice since 1989. If he really stinks up the joint, he could threaten the all-time worst mark of -1,010 DYAR set in 2011 by ... ex-Jacksonville quarterback Blaine Gabbert. Poor Jaguars fans.
 
Bortles has combined an unwatchable tendency to check down (his average pass this season has traveled 7.0 yards past the line of scrimmage, next to last among starters) with an appalling lack of ball security (a league-high 16 interceptions).
 
In defense of Bortles, the problems in Jacksonville go way beyond the quarterback position. Before getting benched, Chad Henne put up a DVOA of -54.9% in 94 passes. That is much worse than Bortles' DVOA, and would be far and away the worst mark of Henne's own mediocre career. Only 34 quarterbacks in our database have had a DVOA below -50% on at least 90 passes