Quote:This is more a reference to me than the entire board, but yeah I do think the same "tired arm" from his rookie season played a role. For starters, there's no reason to think his condition from his rookie season ever went away as he never did get any medical treatment for it... or at least none that we know of. Late in 2015, Bortles was flat out slinging TD strikes deep downfield, but last year he wasn't near going there again. We all now something happened, and it's been my suspicion that it's the same tired arm combined with new injuries that hampered him this year.


Go back through the season and remember what we saw. As early as week one in the Packers game we were saying this isn't quite the same Blake, and by week three we knew it. He wasn't hurt at that point, but I almost have to wonder if his arm was already getting tired from throwing in the offseason. As the games went on things only got worse, but without a running game to turn to under Oley, the Jaguars soon led the league in passing attempts. In the Bears game Blake was making some nice throws, but near the very end there was a play where he got hit, and I wonder if that was when he first injured the arm. Now he claims it was in the Titans game a couple weeks later, but the following week against the Raiders his arm looked bad. He was carrying it down low, and it just looked like it had been separated as his throws were erratic with nothing on them. Even the announcers said he must have injured the arm, but it wasn't until the next week vs the Titans that Blake actually admits to being injured. The Titans game took it's toll as I felt they should rest him for a couple weeks, but they kept on playing him as the losses mounted. Blake finally started playing some good football in December, but it was too little, too late.