Quote:Which is very possible if not likely especially with this new addition to the coaching staff, do we move on from him or give it another year? Obviously if Bortles is bad this year then Gus and the entire staff is getting canned at the end of the season. Do we cut bait or give him the third year?

That isn't 'obvious' at all... let's keep this in perspective; Bortles was playing behind a turn style line this past season (our o-line has specialized in 'turn style' for many years now). He had an inexperienced OC, mostly rookie receivers with two sub-par veteran receivers.

 

Remember, Bortles wasn't even supposed to play this past season. 'Hind sight' being 20/20, it was a mistake to pull Henne for Bortles as nothing good came from it; not that Henne was any good, but I suspect we didn't get any wins with Bortles that we wouldn't have gotten with Henne too. All we did was cause our rookie franchise quarterback to regress in his pass technique by throwing him to the wolves before he had an acceptable o-line in front of him.

 

Remember, it was his rookie season; many quarterbacks who've gone on to develop into great players had a less than stellar rookie season. The key word here is 'develop; Blake must show signs of positive development, or else we're just 'spit'en in the wind' and wasting our time. I'm not saying he has to turn into an elite level player this coming season, but we need to start seeing signs on the field of things like...

 

exercising better judgement with the football so he's doesn't take so many sacks,

consistently better technique in his passing game which should lead to better accuracy when throwing.

 

We'll see.

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