Quote:I watched both qbs today, and Blake looked MUCH better than Mariota this week. It wasn't even close. Mariota was getting throws around "like a ragdoll," and he was erratic as heck. His best throw came late in the game when he practically threw a duck up for grabs, and fortunately for him a TItans player came up with it. Ultimately the game was lost when he fumbled handing it back over to the Browns to sit on the ball.


 

While I admit he suffered from several drops, his passes aren't exactly easy to catch. He throws darts similar to the kind of passes Byron Leftwich used to throw when he threw short, and they smack the receiver's hands. The guy has no touch. Blake has suffered drops with passes practically floating right into their hands. Blake throws perfect arcs with outstanding touch. Mariota throws a football like he's throwing darts.

 

Your last claim is so subjective its hard to even evaluate. You talk about his 'perfect arc' and how Mariota throws 'too low to get over defenders' but ignore when Blake had a throw knocked down by Grimes (only 5'10) because he didn't get the ball high enough over him. You can say he throws perfect throws all day long but that doesn't make it true. How about we look at the statistics thus far for the 2015 NFL season.

 

Including preseason (to extend the sample size):

 

Mariota - 55/83 66% completion rate, 792 yards 9.5 YPA

Bortles - 79/133 59% completion rate, 917 yards 6.9 YPA

 

Never mind that this is Bortles' second season in the NFL, with a supporting cast that the majority of poster's on this forum would consider to be much better than the Titans' offensive group going into this season.

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