(02-14-2019, 06:02 AM)lastonealive Wrote:

(02-13-2019, 11:05 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: No.

You keep trying to rank the offense as a whole when the pass offense was woefully out of sync with the run.
You need to evaluate them separately.  Roping them together only skews perspective. 

The run game failed in 2018 because they lost 6 O-linemen and 3 running backs to injury for significant periods of time. 

You apparently want to prop up 2017 Blake Bortles far beyond the pedestal on which he belongs. He played fairly well in significant portions of 7 or 8 games.  He played inconsistently and displayed very poor accuracy the rest of the time. 
One must also recognize that he did this within the construct of a watered-down offense laden with training wheels designed to mitigate the mistakes of an inaccurate QB.  
It was fools gold, and it was unsustainable.

I think you are still missing the point. You just can't have a qb play bad and be a top 5 offence. 

Yes he's always been inconsistent just like every other middle of the range qb. But in 2017 he kept helping give us early leads including the Pittsburgh and new England playoff games

I think I've made it pretty clear that we did exactly that in 2017.  He had little streaks of playing well, but on the overall he was a bad quarterback being treated with kid gloves by the coaching staff due to his propensity to turn the ball over. 

They managed to mitigate his poor play just enough in that one season to scrape into the AFCCG on the backs of defense and a run game. 

Then they made the grave error of believing that model was sustainable and they extended that bad QB. 

You can keep ignoring that #17 in passing yards per game ranking all you want -- but it clearly demonstrates Bortles marginal contribution to that offensive ranking  - and it demonstrates how the staff kept the ball out of his hands as much as they could.

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