Quote:Good QBs can't make receivers catch balls that are perfectly delivered, or put in catchable locations. That's on the receivers to make those plays. All the QB can do is give them the opportunity to make the plays. Blake's stat line would have looked significantly better had we not seen multiple drops, and that fumble.


I agree that good QBs make everyone else on the field better, but there's got to be some reciprocation from the guys on the receiving end of his passes.


Bortles second half performance was the result of him tightening up after making that mistake. He's going to have to develop a short memory and move on from mistakes in the future.



Sustained drives aren't crap. They're the things that help a team to win games. If executed properly, the goal is to eat up as much clock as possible, and keep your defense fresh. It's not that difficult to understand.

Sustained drives arent crap, im not debating that. That's how the pats and hawks go about their business, but their offenses are much more finely tuned (lots of experiencd, precise quarterbacks). It should still have a role, primarily when you have the lead.

But blake has already admitted to being most comfortable in the hurry up offense. You have to fit your scheme to your players, not the other way around. Look at how much success mariota had this weekend. They used a ton of shotgun. Is that what their coach ideally wants? No. But it's what the qb is comfortable executing. What you saw out of mariota on sunday wasnt just a fluke and poor defense, it was a good offensive gameplan

---