Quote:He may say he's not lost his confidence, and Gus may say Blake has not lost confidence, but if you watch closely, he double clutches a lot of his throws.  He starts to throw and then he hesitates.   I saw it several times last Sunday.   He sees an open reciever, he starts to throw, and then it's like he's telling himself to look again, to make absolutely sure the receiver is actually open.   He's lost confidence.  

 

He's also wildly inaccurate at times.  

 

It makes me wonder, should we ever draft a quarterback who needs to fix his throwing motion.  Because most of the time, they cannot fix it.  

This.

 

To start with, Bortles had/has issues with his basic throwing motion; why on earth would we draft someone so high who has issues with fundamental skills??? Watch that video of him throwing a pass; that looks far more like he's throwing a baseball than a football. The ball should be coming up behind his right ear and then moving forward; instead, he's doing almost a full baseball style windup similar to what Leftwich did.

 

Secondly, watch him during the game and you'll see that he is totally staring down his intended target almost from the moment of the snap. No wonder defenders are able to triple cover his targets!

 

Third: He abandons the 'pocket' too often even when it's still clean. He's feeling pressure even when it's not there similar to Gabbert. He does sometimes 'double clutch' his passes... which leads one to think he's suffering from a lack of confidence; and given what his throwing motion has returned to, I don't blame him.

 

Forth: We have essentially no running game to speak of. Poor blocking due to our line getting physically beat combined with poor play calling by an offensive coordinator who has been fired multiple times already and the result is predictable.

 

As for the stuff of not being mentally or physically prepared for the season due to extensive late night drinking bouts... I don't know, but I hope that's not the case. We've seen too many Jaguars careers ended by drinking and drug use.

 

At this point, I'm not feeling so good about Dave Caldwell either. He selected Bortles. He selected Bradley. Short of a miraculous turnaround by this team, I don't see us reaching a .500 season. Indeed, at this point I'm predicting a 5-11 season... if we're lucky. So at the end of the season I think Bradley is done here, along with Olson. Regrettably, I also think we may have hitched our horse to the wrong wagon when it comes to Bortles too; he had fundamental throwing issues from the get/go and shouldn't have been drafted that highly.

 

So I think we're back in franchise quarterback search mode once again... along with a decent head coach search. After this season, Dave Caldwell should be on the hot seat as well.

 

On a positive note; the usual poor performance of the Jaguars has been a boon to my getting chores done around the house at this time of year on Sunday afternoons; but I'd rather be watching the Jags play winning football... too bad.

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