(08-18-2017, 11:53 AM)FBT Wrote:

(08-18-2017, 11:45 AM)FreeAgent01 Wrote: This whole thing is a joke.

Did Henne outplay Bortles yesterday?  I guess.  It was a small sample size and Henne's "success" was 2 dropped passes when they were setup 3 yards outside the redzone by a return.  Bortles threw one underthrown ball and we have all of this now.  It even looked more intentionally underthrown.  It appeared to me at least that he didn't think Robinson was going to break free like that and he was throwing the ball for Robinson to high point it.

When Bortles first got here, I remember Gus talking about not coaching the aggressiveness out of him and neutering him.  He threw too many interceptions and now he's been neutered and ostracized as a result.  

All Bortles has done is everything asked of him, just not at the rate some people want.

Throw less interceptions?  His interception rate has gone down every year that he has been in the league.  He threw just one interception in the last 4 games of last season.

Be more efficient and a game manager?  This preseason he is up over 61% completion percentage and has zero turnovers.

Here is what nobody is paying attention to.  We were 2-4 last year in games where Blake didn't throw an interception.  That's bad - really bad.  The offense is bad with or without Blake.  It's not just eliminating turnovers, its establishing a running game, its not dropping balls, and its giving up on routes, its certainly not tipping balls to the defense.

Bortles can't be thinking his receiver won't get open so throw it short, and I don't think it was intentional. His job on a called deep route is to deliver a catchable ball. He didn't. He fluttered a duck out there.

Maybe not, but it appeared that way to me. I think having ARob as a receiver is very difficult because you are constantly having to adjust to either cutting off the route for backshoulder and jump balls or for the route to continue. Regardless and either way, it was just one bad pass. They happen multiple times every game by every quarterback in the league.

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