Quote:"Stud" is a bit much. Gabbert in preseason still looked worse than regular season Blake. And way worse than preseason Blake.


We were just so excited to see him move the ball and not get sacked that we hyped him up.


Let's not even begin to speculate how well Bortles would do with a 1600 yard MJD

 

Bortles looked like a top tier QB should look in the preseason when other teams aren't playing as hard and he was facing inferior competition, and that's more than we can say about anyone playing for Jacksonville since Brunell. Leftwich, Garrard, Gabbert, Henne, everyone since Brunell has always left Jaguars fans in the preseason making excuses as to why they looked so shaky. That's stopped with Bortles. Bortles was a rookie, but he was clearly better than everyone else from a talent and courage standpoint when he hit the field in the preseason. Henne and Gabbert threw a lot of checkdowns, Garrard and Leftwich were indecisive, Bortles looked down the field and threw great passes even with a rusher on him.

 

Bortles may never be a true top tier guy, we can't know if he will yet, but his efforts in the preseason last year were much better than anything we'd seen for a long time prior.

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