Quote:I know.  I was just as frustrated with that as anyone else.  But the D and special teams lost this game.  I just can't blame Bortles when he throws for over 300 yards and 4 TD's.  He left plays on the field, but also made some great throws.

 

This. I laugh when the announcers kept talking about not using timeouts. Why? We couldn't stop them. Without all three timeouts, we probably don't score our last touchdown (a couple of the throws were stopped in middle of field, along with that big Bortles run, IIRC).

 

If the defense did its job and stopped them (instead of allowing them to get yet another first down), we get an extra 2 minutes. With that additional time, we could have went downfield, score and be down 7 AND THEN have 3 timeouts to kill the clock rather than relying on very low odds of onside kick.

 

But none of that matters, because even if we had 3 timeouts, based on how that game went, I have zero confidence that we could have stopped them.


 

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