Quote:Bortles missed an open AR15 one time...  It happens... QBs sometimes miss their recievers...

 

The INT in the first half was on Gerhart...  I mentioned this in the game day thread, and I stand by it.  The whiff on the block caused the INT...

 

If you recorded the game, go back and watch it...   BB5 saw the rushing coming right into his face and made him hurry the throw, in addition, he had to adjust his motion as the rusher was coming right at him.  The whole this was predicated on the fact that BB5 expected Gerhart to at least provide some semblance of a block, which Gerhart didn't do...  The whole INT lies completely on Gerhart.

 

Now, at the end of the day, the INT will show up as a stat on BB5... But man, that whiff was terrible.  Also, it wasn't really the reason we lost that game...

Gerhart missed the block, and it certainly affected Blake. however, he also missed Robinson open coming open in the middle. He'll get better in time (hopefully) reading the field. That said, this is Bad Blake showing up again. Yes, even if he missed the read, he really shouldn't have thrown the ball. It was a tight window. If you had a perfect pocket where you can put everything you have on the throw (or if you're Vick in his prime who can flick the ball with his wrist and have it on a line), maybe you consider that throw.

 

Quite frankly, Blake has a gunslinger mentality but not the cannon to pull it off. He has a good enough arm when his mechanics are set, but he needs to realize that defenses in the NFL are much faster and he does not have an elite arm to make that throw when he's not set. This is almost similar to the throw he made last week to ARob...

 

Except ARob was on the near side of him and he didn't have a defender bearing down on him (blake)

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