Quote:I'm an equal opportunist when it comes to spreading the credit and the blame.  No QB is perfect, and has to rely on his receivers to make plays when the ball is in their range even if it's not perfectly delivered.  To try to make that an indictment of the QB and his progression is ridiculous.  Saying the receivers bailed him out is only intended to diminish the QB.  The reality is, if Bortles is putting passes where they are able to make plays, he's doing his job.

 

Yet you have no problem assigning the blame of his low % comp to the receivers "drops"?

 

Quote:Considering the number of drops he's dealt with this year, some of his statistical challenges are as much the result of the targets as they are the guy throwing the ball.
 

 

When fact is, his low % completion isn't because our receivers are dropping balls...it's because Blake holds on to the ball trying to make the big play rather than taking what the defense gives him. Our top receivers Yards per catch reflects this. Our QB's yards per completion reflects this. His sack numbers reflect this. And his Yards per attempts reflects this as well. All of those four stats are tied together.

 

His completion % isn't down because receivers are dropping balls...it's because he refuses (or doesn't see) to take the check down. I'm not saying he needs to be a checkdown machine like Henne or Garrard. But him knowing when to give up IS the next step in his development...both from improving his completion %, efficiency, and lowering his mistakes.

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