(02-14-2019, 12:03 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

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

The Jags played 3 playoff teams in 2017 (Titans twice) and went 1-3 in those games.

Bortles threw for 160 or under 7 times..... they somehow went 4-3 in those games. He threw for under 100... 100... Twice and Jags won both of those games. Blake was the same QB in 2017 as he was his entire career. The difference is that the rest of the team was so good, it made him look average.

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