(01-03-2018, 05:12 PM)JagNGeorgia Wrote:

(01-03-2018, 03:42 PM)spacecoastjag Wrote: Last year YOU and all the pundits said that Bortles was only good in garbage time. Once again, I tried to educate you and tell you HOW WOULD YOU KNOW when their scoring defense for 4 years straight was #26-#32? ALL OF THE JAGS GAMES WERE GARBAGE TIME.

This year, Bortles is playing BETTER with the lead than he is without the lead. What excuse do you have now? Nothing.

As much flak as you get, this is actually a good point. Everyone claimed that his stats were exclusively from garbage time, but now they're saying he can't perform in garbage time. It's a big inconsistency.

You can't be serious with this, right? 
(edit: in retrospect - I don't remember you posting much during that span of time - so maybe you just missed most of that)

There were so many threads arguing the difference between "garbage time" and simply "playing from behind on the scoreboard" I would literally cut and paste my standard rebuke of the garbage time myth.  There were dozens more that agreed with me or posted similar rebuttals to that crap. Only the laziest in their "analysis" ran with the "it was all garbage time" narrative.

His problems and his stats weren't about the score. They were about inaccuracy, poor fundamentals, and general inconsistency.
Just as they are now - only currently to a lesser degree.

I mean, is it that hard for people to just accept that a young QB simply improved over time with better coaching? Plus the aid of a run game to ease the burden and a #1 defense to give him the ball back when he (or the offense in general) blows it?

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