I've been pretty tough on Blake Bortles since he was drafted. I did have optimism following his 2015 season despite his inconsistency that season. Last season was a major letdown and I lost most of that optimism.

I've treated the 2017 season as a make or break season for the young QB and I was literally giving him about a 50/50 chance in my mind of being able to convince the team to keep to move forward with him behind center.

I still basically feel the same way, though those 50/50 odds may be turning against him a bit now.

Looking at the throws he made in week two of preseason, he made three bad throws, and ten underwhelming but catchable passes. That's not what you want to see right now, but it's not catastrophic. Take away the dropped balls and he'd have been 10 of 13.

The thing that scared me wasn't the stat line. It wasn't so terrible. It was the way he looked in the pocket. Everything seemed hesitant, indecisive and generally uncomfortable. He'll have to look quite different after the snap this week for me to have any confidence at all in him moving forward.

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