Quote:Look man, even when he played well last year he was turning the ball over wayyyyy too much. Without even looking I'm absolutely sure he's led the league in turnovers over the last 3 years, or at least damn close. There's no fixing Bortles. That release might could get sped up a bit, but there's no way he's going to be able to fix his problems in time to be kept around here as a franchise QB. The ship has sailed on Bortles.

Why do you think he turned it over so much?

 

Bottom 3 defense, zero running game, brutal offensive line.

 

He basically had to heave it downfield constantly to keep this team in games because the defense couldn't stop a nosebleed and the running game was non-existent for the most part. Not to mention the amount of sacks given up by a Wiz/Beadles/Joeckel etc. offensive line.

Bortles has his problems, but if we had last years version of Bortles with this run game we had today and defense we are sitting AWFULLY different than we are now. It's not easy to find a top 5-10 QB. If he can be a top 12-15 guy like he showed potential to be last year than we need to take that and run. This defense is showing the upside of being one of the better ones when guys like Fowler/Jack/Ramsey/Yannick/Day etc. develop. There's a lot of upside there. I'd imagine with a top 5-8 pick this year we probably add to that core with a Peppers/Allen/Williams/Barnett etc. too.

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