Quote:Byron lacked a short game and had other reasons for a lower completion percentage. As for his INTs, he had most of those his rookie season as he was learning the NFL game. Take away his rookie INTs and it's not even close. In his career, minus his rookie season, Byron threw 1187 passes with 26 INTs. ...that's one INT every 45.7 pass attempts. Bortles this year has 16 INTs on 343 passes... that's one INT every 21.4 passes.

They have almost identical YPA and YPC. Byron also had the league's best running game and played on a good team that had significantly more leads. As much as we remember Leftwich under pressure, Blake has already been sacked more in 3 seasons then Leftwich was in his entire career, and by a significant margin.


Blake has had a down year, but people have gone way overboard criticizing him. He has been our second best quarterback in franchise history. He throws picks at a rate of less than almost half the leagues's starters. Players like Eli Manning, Phillip Rivers, Jameis Winston, Jay Cutler, and Josh McCown have all thrown picks at a higher rate than Blake this year. Its odd how quickly forgot how bad Blaine Gabbert and Chad Henne were. Does he need to improve? Obviously, but he is still somewhere around the middle as far as starting quarterbacks.

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