Quote:All I did was quote what you wrote.  We could go on with some more of your "analysis" of the play if you want.  I believe that you said that there was no rush on Bortles during the play.  I think that the series of screen shots illustrates something different.  Here are the options that Bortles had on that play.

 

1.  Throw to the obvious open reciever for a short gain (which is what happened).

 

2.  Throw the ball away.

 

3.  Run for dear life and either take a sack or make it to the sideline.

 

There would be almost no chance of being sacked on that play. The closest player to him was the guy that Thomas had beaten, and he wasn't peeling over to Bortles. I'd say the best play probably would have been tossing it further down the field to Robinson like they did to Benn in a later drive, but I'd always rather see the team trying to push it down the field than taking the underneath throw. Throwing short can be the right choice, but given that the corner never turned his hips I'd rather see Bortles be aggressive and see what Robinson can do against a trailing CB and maybe a safety.

 

The real problem here is how you and some others fail to actually recognize that JT wasn't obviously open. There's a difference between having space around a guy and him being obviously open. Still, I tire of arguing pointlessly with someone that doesn't understand what they're even looking at when they watch the film. I doubt the Jaguars come out and say the Bortles failed to read the coverage properly, or did something he did a lot of last year and just decided ahead of time who he was going to throw it to before the play actually developed, but it's clear watching the actual play what he should have done, which is either thrown the ball to Robinson in the honey hole since the steelers didn't commit fully to covering him, or strung the play out some more with the possibility of throwing it away.

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