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D and strong running game needed for rings


Bridgewater is a game manager. Bortles isn't. One plays smart conservative football, perhaps due his limitations, and manages to eke Ws. The other can attack the living daylights out of you but also give you chances to capitalize on his fearlessness and make you pay.


Bridgewater won 11 games last year due to a good day and running game. You "guarantee" that Bortles would have won 12+ had he been in Minnesota? I can't see it based on his style of play.

Yes because a lot of bortles mistakes were forced because he knew the defense couldn't hold up or because he had to throw 40 times a game due to nobody being able to run the ball. Peterson would've been better with a QB that could actually take some shots downfield as well. You never saw teddy do anything other than dink and dunk which allowed the defense to play closer to the line and try to stop Peterson. Bortles could harness some of his risks he took if he played for a complete team. I'm not being overly high on bortles either. I think mostly any quality starter could do the same. Carr, cutler, stafford, even Fitzpatrick could maybe do better.


The point is that teddy can only be successful on a team that is carrying him, while most other quarterbacks that are considered any good can do things that actually cause them to win in spite of the rest of the team. This is why any of these quarterbacks could do better in Minnesota.

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