Quote:In what stats you choose to use. He has more yards passing than Aaron Rodgers this year. And as many TD's as Matt Ryan.

 

Do you think Bortles has demonstrated anywhere near the body of work they have? What's your point?

 

Quote:Not necessary.  We've all been down that road before.  There have been hall of fame QBs with WAY worse start to their careers.

 

Who? Manning also set the record for rookie TD passes and was close to a 1:1 TD:INT ratio. Bradshaw was a very mediocre QB who was carried by what might have been the best defensive team of all time. I don't see the correlation.

 

Quote:Let this sink in a bit...

 

Andrew Luck is rated #34 QB in the league, and Andy Dalton is #2.

 

http://espn.go.com/nfl/statistics/player...backRating

 

Not only can things change quickly in one's career, perception at any point in time can be utterly wrong. Ridiculously wrong. Only in Jacksonville have I witnessed folks being unable to see his positive, significant progression.

 

Again, the body of work can be used to sort out those type of discrepancies. Bortles doesn't have 40+ passing TDs under his belt or long term success. I don't think anyone would argue that Dalton is playing much better than Luck right now. But I don't know anyone who would say Dalton is better because he's played better so far this season.

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