Quote:I'm just nitpicking here on Bortles fantastic season but he has missed some reads that could've resulted in either long gains or scores and instead resulted in interceptions or stalled drives. While re-watching the Saints game I noticed on Bortles first interception that Lee was wide open and Bortles instead decided to force an unnecessary pass.

<a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-game-highlights/0ap3000000610212/Jaguars-vs-Saints-broadcast-highlights'>http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-game-highlights/0ap3000000610212/Jaguars-vs-Saints-broadcast-highlights</a>


Fast forward to about the :40 mark and you'll see Lee wide open uncovered with plenty of green around him in the top right corner of the screen.


Outside of this game he's also missed wide open WRs in the Tampa, Miami, and Cinci game in which he forced an unnecessary pass just off the top of my head. It's something he'll need to work on during the off season. If he can learn how to read the entire field it will be scary how good he can become.

 

To be fair, at that point he was scrambling to his right. It might have been possible for him to see and throw to Lee at that point but it's generally thought to be a pretty bad idea to throw back across your body that way, plus a guy was running at him at that point.

 

I think his decision to throw to his best receiver who had position on his man was fine, it was the fact that the referees all failed to recognize his man running through him to pop the ball up in the air and allow for the INT in the first place that was the problem.

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