Quote:When the results are what they are, the scrutiny increases.  I don't need an overly emotive Ray Lewis type of response from a player. People read other people on more than just their words though, that's just part of life and not specific to football.  He doesn't often try to sell people on anything regarding his game and maybe that's just him.  The one thing he did try to sell was that his 2016 performance was on his coaches.  I don't think he did himself any favors by doing that.  In fact, he compounded the mistake he made by originally not doing this last off-season.  

 

Also, I think the 2016 regression had as much to do with Robinson not bailing him out like he was in 2015.  Robinson was the 80/20 jumpball guy in 2015.  He didn't play poorly in 2016, but clearly wasn't the same 80/20 guy he was the year before.  Bortles made the same mistakes in 2015 that he did in 2016 at about the same pace.  He just didn't have the same production he had the year before which made it easier to overlook and/or forget in 2015.

 

His body language by itself isn't a big problem.  It's just the accent piece in a picture of the situation I've drawn in my mind based on the information available.  I understand we're not all going to draw the same picture even if we're all dealing with the same set of information.

 

He's owned up to his mistakes. He knows it wasn't just coaching, but there was in fact a coaching problem.  It's no fluke that he looked better with Marrone and Hackett game-planning and calling plays. 

 

The Robinson thing is a non-factor in my mind. Robinson made lots of acrobatic catches last year that should have been routine - but Bortles' accuracy demanded otherwise.

Blake simply threw more uncatchable balls in 2016.

Robinson hauled in a nearly identical percentage of catchable balls from 2015 to 2016 in my estimation. Blake just threw more bad ones. 

He was far from perfect in 2015 but his footwork and mechanics fell off a cliff in 2016 and his accuracy suffered greatly as a result. 

 

Yes - we have differing opinions on Blake's mindset and the difference in his play from 2015 to 2016. No biggie. Hopefully his play in 2017 makes us forget about it all together.  

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