Quote:Because he can only learn that when there are 8 or 9 guys in the box and Robinson is getting run over in pass protection?

 

The change that happened for Bortles from the early games to the recent games is that opposing coaches recognized that the Jaguars have massive pass protection problems, and the Jaguars have exacerbated that by playing schemes that allow the other team to pin Bortles in and get free rushers on him.

 

It's clear that the coaching staff of this team has a really hard time making adjustments from what happens after halftime in every game, this scheme problem seems to be just another one of those problems.

 

Bortles has an obvious issue with making his reads. I think that that Fisch has been trying to create ways to bring him along in this area. 

Earlier in the year, they tried running 2 receivers and a TE to one quadrant of the field so that he could read three receivers quickly without scanning widely. Lately they've used motion and formation to draw safeties away from a primary receiver giving him a probable one on one to come back to.

Selling out to a bunch of spread as you suggest isn't going to help him in this area and it would be sniffed out by opponents just as readily after a couple of games. 

 

Anytime a scheme isn't working it's easy to say "they should do this instead."  I think they'd still have issues executing anything you draw up because of the youth and inexperience on the field.  Players failing in one-on-ones is still going to happen if you spread them out.  Bortles will still get pressured up the middle sometimes regardless of formation. Receivers will still drop balls. Bortles will still throw picks and miss open receivers. 

 

This is also part of the issue with "halftime adjustments."  When you are already bleeding a stone to get production with a dumbed-down playbook, it's pretty tough to switch it up at halftime. There are very few (if any) options available. 

 

How many times have you seen this offense fail at executing a simple quick slant?  That looks a lot more like youthful lack of execution than scheme issues to me. 

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