Quote:He had streaks of quality play last year. 

 

This year he's had about 7 quarters of good football spread through 28 quarters. It's diminished. He has regressed. 

 

I agree with you. Clearly Bortles is not playing as well as he did at times last year.

 

You don't have 35 passing TDs based on flukes. He had extended games of good play for a really bad and poorly coached team, but he had legitimately good play over extended periods.

 

This season he's clearly playing much worse. Either opposing coaches have figured out what he doesn't want to do and are trying to make him do only that, or his game as regressed. It looks like regression to me more than anything. He's missing open guys on middle to deep passes that he used to hit all the time.

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