Quote:There is no denying that Bortles' picks are more costly than Byron's were. Byron had a ball control offense and great defense/special teams and wasn't backed up inside the 20 as often as this team is this year. Byron also didn't have to play from behind and didn't have the 3rd and longs that Blake has had to face.


Whats being compared is a conservative, run first, ball control offense vs an offense being forced into throwing often and in bad situations. By the numbers, Byron was no less turnover prone than Blake, even in a favorable offense.

 

Byron started a total of 44 regular season games while he was in Jax and he had an INT % of 2.7 and a total of 36 INTs.  Blake started his 44th game last Saturday and has an INT % of 3.1 with a total of 51 INTs.  Total attempts by Byron over his tenure here were 1,344.  Blake has had 1,667 attempts or 323 more.  That's a little over 7 more attempts per game for Blake.  If you apply Bortles INT % to Byron's attempts, you still come out with 41 or 42 depending on how you round.  That's a 14 to 17% increase in INT's for Blake over Byron over the same number of attempts.  Absolutely we don't want him throwing as much as he has, but I wouldn't proclaim him as "no less turnover prone" based on these numbers. 

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