(04-23-2018, 10:31 AM)imtheblkranger Wrote: (04-23-2018, 10:13 AM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: Is Blake Bortles good enough to win with? yes. Is Blake Bortles good enough to win a Superbowl with. No. I just want someone who gives us a chance at a championship and I don't believe that is Bortles. I believe he is good enough to get us to the playoffs (obviously), but I don't wanna just be a playoff team. I want a championship and to me, Bortles is the equivalent of Andy Dalton.
I don't understand this line of thinking. We were minutes away from the SB, Blake did not lose that game. We were there because of him, not in spite of him.
In one trip to the playoffs, he has more playoff wins that Dalton has in like 5.
We absolutely can win a SB with Blake. He was great in the playoffs last year.
Just for a little playoff perspective here, Blake was kind-of bad vs the bills actually, good in part of the game vs the steelers, solid against the pats. I don't think we were there in spite of him, but saying we were there because of him feels wrong as well. We were there because he added just enough contribution to the outstanding play of the defense to get us there. That's not really "because of him."
He missed on some throws in that NE game and I'm not sure why so many are willing to completely sweep that under the rug. The NE game was not a
bad performance, but it's not one that puts your team over the top in any way. It's one that you can win with
if your run game and defense dominate.
The run and the defense faltered in the second half of that game though - which left it to Blake to win in a last ditch effort.
He came up short on the throw to Westbrook.
It would have been an
amazing, aMAZing, pass had he led Westbrook properly there - I realize that. They'd still be looping it on ESPN and we'd all have the gif in our signatures.
But it was indeed short. Westbrook had to wait on it and it gave the defender time to make a very athletic play on the ball. Call it micro-analysis if you want ,but that's exactly what happened.
That play, the struggles in wild card week, and the number of just plain inaccurate passes on the whole season are the reasons why so many have him firmly entrenched in the mid-tier group of QBs ( and some still see him as less than that.)
Personally, I think the guy can still take another step forward in development, but I don't think he was "great" in the playoffs. That's a bit of a stretch to me.
I do agree that we
could win a SB with him. He'll need to take that step forward though, the run game will need to be even better, and the defense will need to stay on pace. Hopefully that's not asking too much.
All of that said - without spending big in early FA (too late) or trading away the farm for a top pick, he'd be very hard to replace in 2018.
