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What About Bringing Bortles back as a Left Handed QB?

#21

(12-09-2018, 08:56 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: I applaud equally well with both hands.

Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
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#22

(12-09-2018, 09:09 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:
(12-09-2018, 08:56 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: I applaud equally well with both hands.

Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

Is that a natural talent, or do you attribute your skill to extensive practice?
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#23

I bat right handed and I'm a lefty. Batting left-handed feels unnatural to me. There is no way you can just switch to something you aren't used to. Hey OP why don't you try to write at a high level with your non-dominant hand and you'll get the same results Bortles will get trying to throw left handed.
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#24

(12-09-2018, 04:44 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:
(12-09-2018, 04:09 PM)Jagsfan4life9/28/82 Wrote: I'm curious as to why he switched in the first place.
I don't think he ever switched.  I think he just learned to throw right handed as a kid - even if it's not his most natural orientation. 

This is not uncommon for left handed kids.  I watched my parents, teachers and coaches try repeatedly to make my left handed brother do things right handed when we were kids.  

I also can't believe this thread is real.

I'm the same as a lefty I learned how to throw a football with my right hand. I play guitar and bass as a right hand dominant . no one thought of giving me a lefty guitar as a kid to learn on.
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#25

This is the greatest thread in the history of the message board. Thank you.
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#26

He should switch to running back he is better then anyone we got.

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#27

(12-09-2018, 01:42 AM)myrick31 Wrote: Since he is going to so much dead money on the cap anyway this is basically a freeroll situation.  He has physical talent maybe his mechanics will be better as a lefty if he practices.

So he's been throwing right-handed his whole life and we're going to teach him to throw left-handed over the span of one off-season and hope he's better.

Man oh man, what a great [BLEEP] idea.  Why didn't I think of it?
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#28

He plays baseball and golf as a lefty and I would assume has better mechanics in those sports than football, possibly he will have more arm strength as well?
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#29

(12-10-2018, 06:04 PM)myrick31 Wrote: He plays baseball and golf as a lefty and I would assume has better mechanics in those sports than football, possibly he will have more arm strength as well?
Let me get this straight...

You're actually serious?  

You want to:
  • take a 26 year old human
  • teach him to perform a skill opposite of how he's done it his entire life
  • then expect him to be one of the top 32 humans on the planet at doing that thing -- but backwards now
brilliant
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#30

(12-10-2018, 06:11 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:
(12-10-2018, 06:04 PM)myrick31 Wrote: He plays baseball and golf as a lefty and I would assume has better mechanics in those sports than football, possibly he will have more arm strength as well?
Let me get this straight...

You're actually serious?  

You want to:
  • take a 26 year old human
  • teach him to perform a skill opposite of how he's done it his entire life
  • then expect him to be one of the top 32 humans on the planet at doing that thing -- but backwards now
brilliant

Taysom Hill could do it. Dude's like Chuck Norris if Chuck Norris were a total [BLEEP].
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#31

Told y'all before bb5 needs to be a te.
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#32

(12-09-2018, 09:09 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:
(12-09-2018, 08:56 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: I applaud equally well with both hands.

Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

Showing loyalty to the home team is very important.
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#33

He was a TE in high school before becoming a QB. They should give him that opportunity.
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#34

There are a few left-handed cigarettes being smoked in this thread.
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#35

(12-12-2018, 12:14 PM)rpr52121 Wrote: He was a TE in high school before becoming a QB. They should give him that opportunity.

I recall the clamoring of the frenzied masses a few years ago for another Florida QB to be made into a TE.  The answer hasn't changed.
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#36
(This post was last modified: 12-13-2018, 09:59 AM by MoJagFan.)

No way you designate him a TE on gameday.  It would blow up the franchise cap numbers at the position.  He would be the highest paid TE in NFL history to never catch a pass.
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#37

(12-13-2018, 09:59 AM)MoJagFan Wrote: No way you designate him a TE on gameday.  It would blow up the franchise cap numbers at the position.  He would be the highest paid TE in NFL history to never catch a pass.


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(This post was last modified: 12-13-2018, 12:28 PM by HURRICANE!!!.)

(12-13-2018, 09:59 AM)MoJagFan Wrote: No way you designate him a TE on gameday.  It would blow up the franchise cap numbers at the position.  He would be the highest paid TE in NFL history to never catch a pass.

You absolutely do.  Kind of like the Pats putting Gronk in at Safety.   We could make Bortles the next Gronk and use him at TE and as a Safety late in the game.

I like the left handed passing attack as well to confuse the defense that would be studying film of him throwing right handed. Hard to stop QBs when you don't know which arm they will be using from game to game.  Also, with Bortles at Safety, Derrick Henry runs into a brick wall on his own 10 yard line for a gain of 9 yards, not 99 yards last week vs the Titans.
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#39

Just when you think people have run out of silly suggestions, someone digs deep and delivers a gem like this.
Never argue with idiots. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
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#40

(12-13-2018, 12:34 PM)FBT Wrote: Just when you think people have run out of silly suggestions, someone digs deep and delivers a gem like this.

That's because posters on this board have creative offensive minds.


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