(08-19-2017, 04:40 PM)Eric1 Wrote:

(08-19-2017, 04:22 PM)jaguarmvp Wrote: Many of you still do not understand.

THE JAGS ARE IN A WIN NOW mentality.  There is no tanking for next season.  IF Bortles does not give the best chance to win he is benched.

No we get it.

It's the majority of people crying for a new QB who don't understand. How do you bench somebody when he's the best option you have? Even if he might not be that good of an option.

We all want far better QB play. The problem is, help isn't coming. Henne is going into his 10th year and hasn't ever thrown for more then 15 TDs in a season. Hes never thrown more TDs than INTs in a season. He's simply not good at all and his game is not going to magically change now.

The back up QB is always the most popular guy in town, until he actually gets on the field and everybody is reminded why he hasn't been playing. By that time, you're already screwed because now you're bouncing back and forth between QBs and that's never successful.

They have to give Bortles every chance to flat out sink himself this season. If week 3/4 comes and he just looks lost, no confidence, missing every throw and is costing us games, that's when you pull him and don't look back. At that point it'll be blatantly clear that it's over and you move onto Henne/Allen to finish things out.

Even with Bortles we aren't competing for the playoffs this year. You forgot to mention the huge issue of the injury clause in Bortles contract , if he plays this year and gets injured bad enough that he's still having issues in march we are on the hook for 20 million guaranteed next year. A sum of money which would seriously hamper our ability to re-sign our players and improve places like the Oline or sign another QB. It's a huge risk , one that outweighs the gain of playing Bortles.

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