Since its pretty dead, and I don’t feel like reading anymore “Would you trade Blake Bortles for _____” threads, Ive decided to try and delve a little deeper into the “Blake Bortles Garbage Time TDs” argument.

 

As a disclaimer, I realize that “garbage time” is debatable to say the least, and that it also applies to INTs for which I have yet to count. I am also a huge Blake Bortles fan.

 

I counted 8 TDs;

2 vs NE

1 vs TB

1 vs HOU (wk 6)

1 vs SD

2 vs IND (wk 9)

1 vs NO

 

So it could be said our garbage time vs NE started immediately after the coin toss, so these two TDs are obvious.

 

In the TB game, Bortles threw a TD that left 1:05 in the fourth, forcing us to rely on an onside kick, drive the ball down the field, and get a TD to TIE the game. To me this is a garbage time TD, as I believe it only delayed the inevitable. I remember listening to the game on the radio and Boselli saying a similar remark.

 

In week 6 against the Texans, we were still down by 2 scores with 4 minutes left after he threw this one. Clearly garbage time.

 

Versus SD he had another TD with 1:21 left, our offense had been trash all game, and we again would have had to rely on an onside kick. Pretty much the exact same situation as the TB game.

 

Playing Indy, he had 2 4^th qrtr tds (one rushing) after we were up by two TDs.

 

Finally, in the Saints game, he threw a TD late in the 4^th when we were down by 18.

 

 

 

So there it is, in my personal opinion, Blake Bortles threw 8 garbage time TDs.

 

 

 

 

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