He's out if we lose this Sunday. At that point we're 0 - 4 headed into the bye week. It's no longer acceptable. I said before the draft this year that I was expecting a team that looked like it was capable of flirting with .500 all year. If we could finish with 7 or 8 wins I'd be pretty happy and content as a fan headed into 2017. Right now this team has a lot of soul searching to do on the offensive side of the football. Especially on that line and in the backfield with the running game. It's absolutely setting this team back this year.

 

The defense in fairness showed plenty of capability in our two home losses to Green Bay and Baltimore. They could actually carry this team this year. It's just a shame we can't rely on the running game at all so far. And to me that's more basic than anything. That should be the first thing that's drilled and installed into the system every off-season. It's inexcusable to see these guys getting knocked off their feet and blown back into the running back. At some point they have to look at addressing the scheme to make it effective or something to that effect. But right now, we're averaging something like what? 44.0 or 54.0 rushing yards per game? That's not going to cut it. 

 

Does Bortles need to improve on his mechanics? Certainly. But should he also be averaging 40 - 50 pass attempts per game? No, absolutely not. Not when this defense is capable of keeping the games close and they're getting off the field on third downs. They need to be able to run the football to let him excel at what he's good at like he did last year late in games. And that's working off the play action game and bootlegs to throw it down the field. He's not a dink and dunk quarterback. I think that's pretty clear right now. And I think they've put too much emphasis on that so far that it's actually hindering his ability to hit those deeper passes on the few times they're open for him to take those shots. 

 

But he's having to compensate and throw too much to keep this team remotely close in football games. You can see it's a trend too just through three weeks so far. The top seven quarterbacks right now in pass attempts so far this year are combined for 13 wins with 17 losses. And, not so ironic, when you get to the guys ranked or tied for the 5th - 7th slot in pass attempts, they have a win or two. And when you look at the game logs where they lost, they had to throw the football more to try and compensate for a poor defensive effort or running game. I.E Pittsburgh's beat down against Philadelphia. 

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