Bortles should be considered an MVP candidate if the Jaguars win the AFCS.

 

I think the biggest problem Bortles has had this offseason is the perception that was colored heavily by the last game of the season. In that last texans game Gus had the team woefully prepared and the team around Bortles just imploded.

 

It was a three INT zero TD game for Bortles largely thanks to everyone on the team playing like hot garbage around him, especially the Joke at LT.

 

If Bortles has a 1 TD 1 INT game he wouldn't have finished the season with the most INTs and he would have been tied for the league lead in passing TDs. Sure there still would have been things to nitpick in the offseason, but the perception of him would have been shifted by quite a bit because there is a big difference between leading the league in TDs and throwing less than the league lead in INTs and leading the league in INTs (even if other guys threw a lot more of them per game) and getting second in TDs.

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