Quote:Tony Romo: 1st year starting: qb rating of 95, 19 TDs to 13 INTs, 2nd year 36TDs to 19 INTS

 

Aaron Rodgers: 1st year starting: qb rating 106, 28TDs to 13 INTs

 

Ben Roethlisberger: 1st year starting (rookie): qb rating 98.1, 17 TDs to 11 INTs

 

Peyton Manning (although we could argue he belongs to a different generation) as rookie: QB rating of 71, 26TDs to 28 INTs

 

Tom Brady: 1st year playing (after Bledsoe injury) qb rating of 87, 18 TDs to 12 INTs

 

Drew Brees: QB rating of 77, 17 TDs to 16 INTs, 

 

Andrew Luck: QB rating of 77, 23 TDs to 17 INTs

 

Russell Wilson: QB rating of 100 as rookie, 26TDs to 10 INTs

 

Phillip Rivers: 1st year starting (3rd year): QB rating of 92, 22 TDS, 9 INTs

 

Ryan Tannehill: rookie year: QB rating of 76, 12 TDs, 13 INTs

 

Matt Ryan: qb rating of 88, 17 TDs, 11 INTs

 

Andy Dalton:  rookie QB rating of 80, 20 TDs 13 INTs

 

Cam Newton: rookie QB rating of 85, 21 TDs, 14 INts (also rushed for 14 TDs)

 

Eli Manning: started 7 games as rookie, QB rating of 55 - next season started 16 games, qb rating 76 with 24 TDs and 17 INTs

Interesting you would include guys like Romo, Rodgers, Rivers, and Brady who got to sit at least a year to compare to Bortles.

 

Neither Peyton Manning nor Eli manning could have what anyone would consider a consistent rookie year despite having a father who played QB in the NFL to groom them to be QBs.

 

Brees did not reach anything close to consistent play until his 4th season.

 

If you examined Brady's numbers from his first year as a starter and compared them to his numbers in all of his subsequent years, you'd find his first year numbers are the worst (in terms of TD-INT) in his career (absent the year he got hurt in game one and missed the year).  Same with Matt Ryan, Andrew Luck.  Phillip Rivers tended to get better over time, too (having the luxury of Norv Turner as OC, LaDanian Tomlinson at RB, and Antonio Gates at TE), as did Big Ben.  Andy Dalton showed more production from year 1 to year 2 and 3 before regressing last year.

 

Just about all of these guys were less productive in their first year as a starter than they were in just about all of their subsequent seasons.

 

Keep in mind, many of these guys got to sit anywhere from a year to three before starting.

 

Bortles sat, what, three games and played on a woefully inexperienced and undermanned squad.

 

Keep in mind, in your conclusion, you said you wanted to see improvement from Bortles.

 

As it stands now, that's exactly what you are getting.

 

Bortles threw 11 TDs and 18 INTs last year and was sacked 55 times.

 

This year, Bortles is on pace to throw-if my math is correct-26 TDs and 16 INTs, and sacked 37 times.

 

This year, Bortles' TD percentage, INT percentage, yards per attempt and rating are all improved.

 

He had a bad game against a team everybody predicted we'd lose.

 

He's had exactly 16 games starting. 

 

Give the guy a chance.

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