Quote:baconator, I've already answered your question.  You are arguing something I am not.  Projections are just that.  Sometimes their right and sometimes their wrong.  Sometimes player take 5 years to break out and sometimes they do it in the first year.  Your logic is what is failing here.  In order to answer your question, I need you to understand the argument.  If you would like to play, please answer a series of questions.

 

Based on Bortles 6 games this year, do you think he is playing like Blaine Bortles, poorly, below average, average, above average, good, great, elite? 

Based on Bortles 6 game this year is his ceiling at the floor, below average ceiling, average ceiling, above average ceiling, good ceiling, great ceiling or elite ceiling?

 

I have more questions, but will need those answers first.

 

Based on his situational performance (e.g., in the meaningful moments of close games), the context of how his statistics have been produced (e.g., garbage time blowouts against some of the worst defenses in the NFL), and what he has shown in both his rookie and 2nd year relative to all other 1st and 2nd year QBs currently in the league (rookie QBs this year are having instant impacts that Bortles never had, and the Qb taken in the 2nd round of his same class has outperformed him since day 1). Those are what I'm basing my opinions on. Has he been improving? Of course, he is drastically better than he was once he started. But he still makes poor decisions, still is wildly inaccurate, still gets erratic in the pocket, and still collapses when the team needs him most. \

 

To you actual questions, he is playing as a average NFL starter. His floor is one of the worst QBs in the league (turnover prone, inaccurate, crumbles under pressure), and his ceiling is an above average starter with maybe a couple pro bowl appearances.

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