Quote:This has been chronicled over and over again by myself and others ad nauseum, so rather than retype everything out I'll just quote myself and point you to other threads. Bring your homerism to the stadium on Sundays, but consider trying to be more objective regarding Blake's 2015 season.


Forum thread on how detrimental Defensive TDs are:
<a class="bbc_url" href='http://jungle.jaguars.com/index.php?/topic/15894-compelling-statistics-defensive-special-teams-tds-effect-on-winning/'>http://jungle.jaguars.com/index.php?/topic/15894-compelling-statistics-defensive-special-teams-tds-effect-on-winning/</a>



Quoting myself from several threads in Dec 2015:

Bunch of good, true posts. Bortles just tried to do too much last season, because really, if it wasn't for him, we wouldn't have been in many games, and we would have suffered more than one blowout (Patriots).


The defense was bad. Offensive line was pretty bad, which made our running game bad. That's a pretty big load to put on Bortles' back, and he definitely did make some backbreaking mistakes last season. But he did grow exponentially from year 1 to year 2, so I expect to see another exponential growth this upcoming season, with an improved completion %, better TD to INT ratio, and less bad decision making, especially in the critical zones of the field. Bortles has shown me the intangibles that he can do it, and he will be even better with a running game and defense, which will take some pressure off him.

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