Quote:What is pathetic are your reading comprehension abilities. I never compared Bortles to Gabbert, I never said stats tell the whole story (in fact I did so explicitly in the passage you quoted), and I said pretty clearly that I do watch the games. The best part about this thread is that a lot of people want to defend Bortles, but they just can't. There has yet to be one coherent argument formed in his defense, its just the same old, "well the stats are misleading in this particular case" or you "don't watch the games."


Bortles is widely regarded as one of the worst QBs in the league, and its fairly obvious to anyone not drinking teal kool-aid. Maybe everyone just has PTSD from watching him play last year and are trying to block out the horrors of that reality.

There has been plenty of coherent arguments. He worked with Tom House and corrected mechanics. He is moving much better in the pocket. He understands the offense this year and last year he was winging it. And Caldwell plainly said the best case scenario for Bortles was to sit for a year, but that didn't happen. If you want to hang onto last year than by all means. All I know is Jags haven't won a game in September in a long time. Haven't been .500 since 2011. And the reason they are, a big part, is Bortles. He stepped up big against Miami and lead the game winning drive.

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