Quote:So when you say "Favre was a guy who was more or less a gambler, and more often than not it paid off.  I'll take that from Bortles.", how exactly do you want that to be taken?

 

You compare his mindset to Favre, and that you'd "take that" from him, ignoring the fact that he doesn't have the elite arm that Favre had. 

 

That's like comparing a basketball player to Kobe Bryant's mindset of taking contested fadeaways despite that player not being as tall, as athletic, and not as good as Kobe.  You don't mind Kobe taking those shots. You frown when Nick Young takes the same shots.

 

When you have a player who has the mindset of one of the greatest risk takers in the game in Favre, you need the requisite ability to MAKE those risks worthwhile. Blake doesn't have that ability. And unless he can change his mindset, he'll always be more turnover prone than you'd like. 

 

My point was pretty clear, but you're simply not getting it.  I'm not saying Bortles is Favre.  I'm pointing out that Favre made more mistakes during his career than any other QB in the history of the league, and yet he's still considered a great QB because for all of his mistakes, he also had extreme success.  It has nothing to do with who has the bigger arm, but for some reason, this eludes you.  It's about the mindset that the player who is willing to take the risks is going to tend to make more mistakes, especially when he's taking those risks because he's trying to carry a team that's struggling elsewhere. As long as the successes are more prevalent than the mistakes, he's successful.  It's really not that difficult to understand.

 

Keep living in the literal world.  Grind those gears.

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