Quote:The other stats weren't from those other quarterbacks rookie season either. The point being he's made a ginormous jump from one year to the next. That was the point.


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My point was that this fact doesn't put him in the class of elite QBs. It is a lot easier to go from an F to a C than it is to to go from a B to an A. 

 

Quote:It is not that misleading. Most pundits and stats said that Bortles would flame out after his rookie season given the other QB's he had historically compared to. No one outside of Jacksonville gave him a chance, and many thought the Jags would be drafting a QB again soon. Even most Jags fans were hoping for an outside shot of Bortles breaking the TD record this year, much less expecting.

 

Given that only a few QB's have EVER done also means that only 1 other (Romo) ever did starting his second year (and he even had a season to hold a clipboard). Progress for 2nd QB's is often gradual and not steep, so for Bortles to make such a jump is noteworthy, as is that all of the other QB's on that list can lead their teams (if managed well) to the Super Bowl. 

 

He does have to improve though and not take steps backward.

 

Actually the leap a QB makes from his 1st to 2nd is often the biggest in terms of development. Even still, the article compared him to other QBs whose starting point was at least average to very good production to great. Bortles went from the worst to competent (his 5.7 TD% puts him at 13th in the NFL). Besides, given the marginal improvement to his INT% and decline to his completion %, I think this increase is largely due to the development from his playmakers, and the fact that his TD numbers are inflated due to how pass reliant the team has become to score. It shows that Bortles belongs in the NFL and the Jags would be wise to further invest in his development, but it hardly puts him in the class of elite QBs because of this related phenomenon.

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