Quote:Bortles is a frontrunner. He is able to play well when everything is going right and momentum is on his side. What he lacks is the game breaking ability to take over a game and elevate himself and the team when faced with adversity. As soon as the going gets rough or the offense begins to lose its rhythm, he wilts.

FOH with this hyperbole. For those of us who have actually watched this team, every single time we are in position to win a game at the end, Bortles has put us in position to win it. EVERY SINGLE TIME. Yes there have been games where he's taken us out of it early after a pick/pick 6, but if the game is tied and it's on him to drive us down the field for a game winning field goal, he has consistently delivered. He did it in college. He does it here. He does not wilt under pressure dude. The offense always comes out flat in the second half of game FACTS. You think they don't face adversity in the first halves of games? How about when Dolphins drive down the field and even the score up in the first half two weeks ago. What does Bortles do? He comes right back and score, and does it again. Dumb penalties on the offensive line and drops by the receivers have plagued this offense in the second half of games all season. I do not just watch the live broadcast and rant on this forum off of memory after that like you clearly do, and I don't want to hear any BS that you don't because I can tell.

 

I always rewatch the games, sometime 4 times during the week, to reconfirm what I saw. I sometimes walked away from games thinking Bortles sucked then when I went back and watched it's actually everything around him that sucks. Is he perfect? No, but he has played more than good enough this season for us to be 3-1 right now. Consistent penalties on the O-Line at the worst times, drops by the receivers at the worst times, and complete whiffs in the run game twice on the same series constantly is the real killer of this offense, not Bortles. If the O-Line doesn't draw penalties all second half every week and the run doesn't generate -2 yards half the time to constantly put us in 3rd and long then Bortles would probably have AT LEAST 2 more TDs. But those things take the offense completely out of rhythm and then when Bortles does make mistakes it looks significantly worse because of how points were not put on the board on their previous possession due to factors outside of his control.

 

When Bortles is the real assassin of this offense then I will call him out on it, and I've even said he sucked in recent weeks before rewatching games. But that is not the case, and putting anywhere near the majority of the blame for this offense's problems on him is not right at all. If Bortles were playing for the Cardinals the media would be claiming he's the second coming GUARANTEE IT.

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