Quote: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.

 

Bortles was throwing to rookie WR's and was sacked I believe 55 times in 14 games.  You can focus on the 1st year and what other QB's are doing in their first year, but I'm talking about where Bortles is at now.  As you said he drastically improved.  There is reason to believe he will keep on improving.  He makes poor decisions, but less frequent.  He is inaccurate at times.  Not wildly.  Sometimes that is on him and other times it is on the line.  He isn't erratic in the pocket.  That is one of his biggest strengths.  There were a few times he threw off back foot that he shouldn't have last week.  We saw that a lot more last year.  As a 2nd year QB, you hope for improvement and he has made big improvements.  We won the game with a field goal in miami and he gave us two opportunities to beat Indy.  He had an awful pic six first game against carolina.  He threw 4 TD's and 1 INT against bucs so not sure how he collapsed in that game.  He can't be a dlinemen and stop Dougy Fresh.  The pic before half against texans can't happen and there was miscommunication (confirmed) with Julius and him on the pic six.  No confirmation on if Julius or Bortles made the wrong read.  

 

So in 6 games this year he is playing as an average NFL starter?  I'm just making sure I don't misunderstand you.

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