I think it has to do with game planning and managing Blake's erratic play.  This notion that Blake was some great QB last year and that these problems surfaced just this year is false.  Blake cost us several wins last year as he has done this year.  He showed last year an ability to go downfield like we've never see with the Jaguars, but he was just as sloppy in taking care of the football last year as he has been this year.  I think they've tried to help him minimize those mistakes by being more conservative with the game plan in the hopes that some of those mistakes would disappear, but they haven't because Blake hasn't been good.  What we saw last year was an exciting, yet bad, football team on the part of the Jaguars.  What we've seen this year is a somewhat more boring, yet still bad, football team though I think it's clear the defense has gotten better with the talent infusion on that side of the ball.

 

There's no doubt Gus's time is up here and he shoulders a significant portion of the blame, but if I'm spreading the blame around accordingly and weighting it I'd say Blake is the biggest reason this team is bad right now.  With mediocre QB play, this team is in the thick of the division race and Gus probably isn't gone at the end of the year.  All Blake needs to do to be mediocre is take care of the football better, but it's not as simple as just saying it.

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