Quote:I understand this, but it's never been done where a rookie steps into a situation where he's asked to run the offense for a team that trotted out up to 8 different rookie starters on that side of the ball during the course of the year.  Yes, it's valuable experience, and hopefully he'll learn from it and be a better player for it.  That's not a guarantee it will happen though. 

 

I agree with you that more than likely he'll be fine.  But, he clearly regressed during the course of the season, and most of his struggles were tied to the fact that he couldn't maintain the strides he'd made in his mechanics.  With an off season to work with the coaching staff and his offensive skill players, we'll see him take the next step.  He's saying and doing all the right things now.  That doesn't mean it was the right decision to throw him out there as early on as they did.   It's also unfair that the same people who were griping for him to take over as the starter subsequently turn around and bash him and call him a bust based on his performance for the entire season, yet they do so just the same. 

 

Sorry but I have to be blunt, anyone that's declaring Blake Bortles (or any of the rookie QB's) a bust after one season is an idiot, or irrational, such a person doesn't even deserve a response for such a ridiculous comment. Blake certainly did regress as the season went along but I (think) that has more to do with Jedd Fisch and the inexperience of our former offensiive coaching staff than Blake.

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