Quote:All I'm saying is to say the Jags were 3-13 because of Bortles is ridiculous.  It was a combination of coaching and talent but the coaching was easily the worst in the NFL.  Delay of game on a kickoff, players jumping offsides on 3rd and 4 numerous times, etc.  That's coaching. As for the defense,  If TC thought the team was solid defensively (like most on here think they were) he wouldn't have just spent nearly all of the FA money on defensive players to overhaul it.

 

He's our QB.  I get that we're pre-disposed as fans to support our guy, but the evidence has been mounting against him.  Our run game was not good last year, however, our defense was arguably top 10 and safely in the top half of the league.  Just because they could be considered solid, doesn't mean we don't try to upgrade that side of the ball especially considering a team's free agency plan is dictated just as much by the talent pool available as it is by need of a given team.  All of the RB's available this year had warts and quite frankly we've got a similar guy in Ivory as to what else was available.  I have no doubt that position will be addressed in the draft though.

 

Teams with similar rushing performance minus their QB's contribution to the team rushing stat were Detroit, Minnesota, LA, Indianapolis, Seattle and Green Bay.  The only team in that bunch with a losing record last year was LA at 4-12.  Indy and Minnesota were 8-8, Detroit was 9-7, and Seattle and Green Bay both got to 10 wins.  Do you see a correlation here?  I do.  I think the defense was good enough last year that even with the short comings in the running game that if we'd have had average QB play out of Blake we would have been closer to .500 and may have had a shot at the division.

 

Coaching was below average for sure, but I don't think there's one game you can pin solely on clock mismanagement or stupid penalties as the reason for the L.  Even the game against the Lions where Marks jumped offsides, Blake threw a pick 6 earlier in the game.  Special teams also gave up a punt return TD in that game.  You may have an argument that special teams coaching lost us a game or two and why our ST coordinator wasn't fired mid-season I don't know, but even with that, Blake's performance was still the most significant contributing factor to our record last year.

 

You can root for the guy just as I'll be doing, but do yourself a favor and take the blinders off.

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