Quote:Being under slightly more pressure doesn't make Bortles the better qb. Look at the passes themselves. It's ironic that Carr's first pass in the clip has a little wobble because you won't see that in any other. He's throwing some beautiful strikes in these clips, and notice the ball placement how they fall in the receiver's hands in stride. I'm excited to watch Bortles, but it's just not the same. In virtually every clip you see the WR having to adjust to make the catch whether it's reaching, stopping short, diving, etc, etc, but rarely do you see that catch where the WR never has to break stride. ARob and Hurns deserve a ton of credit for Bortles' stats, and I'm not suggesting that Amari doesn't, but Amari doesn't have to be quite the acrobat to make every catch.

 

That's fine and dandy if the poll was asking who has the prettiest pass.. It's a bit harder to address the second part of your post without having to sit down and analyze each and every pass. But for example A-Rob has hella legs and plays well over the defender... it's a bit hard to criticize Bortles when he's (most likey) purposefully throwing high on a great many play as to let A-Rob make a play on the ball.

 

Honestly just looking at the statistics is probably the fairest way to evaluate and that leaves the two pretty even in terms of ability. I'd give a slight edge to Bortles because I'm a homer, and I feel like he's done more with less. He's also thrown more big plays which helps compensate his higher INT percentage and only slightly lower QB rating.

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