(03-14-2019, 03:57 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: The thing people forget is at the time he was given an extension, Bortles seemed to be developing into what the team needed.  In hindsight, yes it wasn't a good move but at the time it seemed reasonable.  Nobody including me saw Bortles decline the way that he did this past season.  Was it all him?  No, but his play certainly dropped off from his 2017 season.  It's just one piece of the puzzle.

This. I have been saying that at the time most people didn't seem to have a problem with it. Now *everyone* is claiming they thought it was a bad idea when it happened. To be fair, a few people did complain but they were the minority. Most people were for it or at least weren't taking it negatively. December and playoffs of 2017 he was playing lights out (I know the Buffalo game was an exception but that's what it seemed like...an exception).

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