(11-17-2017, 08:10 AM)JackCity Wrote:

(11-17-2017, 07:56 AM)SeldomRite Wrote: I think you're way off.

Mariota, to me, looks like this year's Bortles. When the team around him keeps him from having to be the guy making the big throw he does fine. Shut down the titans run and he can get one or two TDs a game and will throw to the other team a few times.

Remember his game against the Jaguars last December? Fell behind and was lucky to not be picked on multiple throws.

I think mariota's whole career has been framed by his first game getting a bunch of long run after catch TDs, but the reality is that even at his best he's essentially been this seasons Bortles with the benefit of not having garbage coaching and offensive line play surrounding him.

I think you're way off. 

Mariota was an elite prospect and was one of the best young QBs in the NFL last year. Unfortunately in the NFL development isn't linear. Players don't get better and better every year, sometimes due to circumstances they have a down year.  

Mularkey's poor coaching has neutered Mariota this year. The scheme doesn't suit him, receivers aren't being schemed open. The run game isn't what it once was. Mariota is also playing fairly poorly by his own accord. 

No Mariota "at his best" is a much better QB than Blake and is more advanced in most areas of QBing. More accurate, takes better care of the ball, better anticipation, better mechanics, better at reading the defense.  If you polled 32 GMs on if they'd rather Mariota or Bortles you'd get 32 GMs telling you Mariota. 

Down year, still a good young QB.

I think you're way off.

Whether any GM would take him ahead of Bortles doesn't mean anything, Bortles is not a franchise QB in my opinion, and neither is Mariota.

If you wanted to ask a more relevant question of them you'd ask which young QBs they'd want to have and maybe in what order.

I'd be surprised if Mariota were even in the top five asking a question like that.

You want him over Wentz? Goff? Carr? Garopolo? Prescott? Watson? Winston? I could see someone arguing he might be better than one or two of those guys. Then there's the ranks of guys that are already known to be franchise or elite level, is he above any of them?

Trying to argue he's better than Bortles is pointless, guys that aren't franchise quality are really just levels of bad, and that's the cast Mariota is in. Plus he's not yet played in every game of a season.

I'd love to see the titans double down on him, though, maybe give him another one of those Andrew Luck kind of contracts.

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