Quote:Yes, Yeldon's poor YPC is why Blake is missing his targets by 2 yards. 

 

It's putting him in position to where we must throw 40 - 50 times per game. This was my concern when Olsen came here from OAK. We're seeing the same lack of running that OAK had. We swapped Fisch out for Olsen who was only responsible for an offense being just one rank ahead of us at 31st overall during the off-season we nabbed him. 

 

I think he's being asked to do too much and he's getting sloppy at times with his fundamentals. But that's what happens when you can't help him out in the ground game and keep him protected consistently. That's just common sense man. I am not saying Bortles is without fault or that he's got the mechanics of an Aaron Rodgers or Tom Brady. 

 

What I am saying, is that, when you're asking ANY NFL QB to drop back and pass the football 40 - 50 times a game. Bad things happen. So far through three weeks. The leauge leaders in pass attempts are combined for 13 wins with 17 losses. All of them have a losing record with the exception of Joe Flacco who is 3 - 0 after he's played our cream puff team and another cream puff team like the Browns. 

 

The only way this team is going to succeed is when it plays like a balanced offense. Maybe Blake's fundamentals improve when he's not being forced to pass the football around against defensive schemes that don't respect the running game and decide to only rush with four lineman and drop the linebackers into coverage because they can simply win with just a base four against our run game. 

 

He's not a dink and dunk QB. These bubble screens don't help. He needs time to let the play action develop and he needs time to bootleg and roll around back there to create space. He was like that at the UCF. So far he's not able to play to that strength. 

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