Quote:I would just respectfully suggest a more descriptive edit on year 2:


"Young and raw qb has a great statistical year (though too many turnovers) where poor mechanics, bad throws/accuracy, and poor decisions persist but are masked by historically poor competition and a disproportionate amount of great plays by 2 up and coming receivers made largely during garbage time. A fan base, along with an unhealthy amount of local media complicity, SO eager to validate they finally have their first franchise qb since Mark Brunell, largely buys in to qb while many outside of Jacksonville don't."


Sorry, I wanted to buy in too but my eyes told me all along we were fooling ourselves. My fear was we would see exactly what we are seeing this year and have this debate, when it really shouldn't be a debate at all. We are just wasting more time at this point. Really still hope I'm wrong but so far it is going EXACTLY as I feared.

Lots of people are pushing this narrative.

And it's an easy narrative that makes sense, but there's more to it than that.


He really did improve his mechanics and strung together periods of better decision making in 2015. It happened. It's not a myth. He regressed at times during the season but overall showed improvement.


Of course having the Allens making great catches helped.

But.... Garbage time??

Utter falsehood. He had about 400 yards worth of garbage time production last year. And, yes I've analyzed it. The jags were in all but 4 games late in the fourth. This garbage time talk is inaccurate and misleading.

Unless you are calling playing from behind in the second quarter in games where you tied or took the lead later "garbage time."

But that makes zero sense.


He's got real issues to fix, but I think he's shown the ability to patch them up. If he gets the right help and a running game, he'll be alright.


I respect your opinion - and you have points on most of the post - but I believe you are reaching on the garbage time bit and how often he displayed bad mechanics.

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