Quote:If you don't think having zero running game and protection issues are effecting his performance than you should probably stop watching football today.  Teams are able to stop our running game in their nickel defense with ease, and at the same time put heavy pressure on the quarterback.  He's no where near perfect this year, but there's lots of blame to go around.

 

It does have an effect, no one is arguing against that. My problem with Blake is he has fundamental issues that are extremely difficult to "fix", those issues attribute to his ball placement & accuracy struggles. I watch a lot of ball and can't think of any other QB at this level that struggles to throw simple pass concepts, an out, a quick slant, the deep in, everything is a struggle with Blake, he's not a "natural thrower" of the football. The game is incredibly fast at this level, guys have hard enough time processing information at such an heightened pace, I think it's dubious to expect a QB to completely alter his life long throwing motion while processing all the information QB's have to process. I'm not saying it can't be done, its just that history has shown us that's it's rare. We all want Blake to succeed, I absolute love the kid but I'm also a realist. There has to be major concern within the Jags organization, if he were just misreading coverage and throwing interceptions (he's doing that also) that would be one thing, players are able to iron out those kind of kinks with more playing time, but Blake's primary flaw is a life-long throwing motion that gives defenses and advantage at this level while attributing to his own accuracy problems. The ball literally needs to come out .5-.75 seconds faster, that throwing motion (naturally) telegraphs where he's going with the ball allowing defensive players to "break" on the ball sooner than what Greg Olsen and Bortles would like, this is why this passing games struggles in the short to intermediate part of the field (where a quick release & accuracy are crucial). D-coordinators are now "funneling" his reads and passes to that part of the field by shading safeties over the top of Allen Robinson, it's a "no-brainer" strategy given Bortles struggles in that part of the field.

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