(12-14-2022, 10:07 AM)scottyg Wrote:

(12-14-2022, 12:41 AM)JagsFanClubOfMD Wrote: That was 2015. Also, Bortles had a 58% completion rate and led the league in interceptions that year.

Yeah, I walked out of the stadium after the last game in 2015 and literally told my season ticket pals, "At least the offense will be fun to watch next year."  Looking back, Bortles managed a fair amount of yards, but that 2016 offense was hideously dysfunctional, and Bortles looked like he couldn't hit water from a boat half the time.

He did some good things in 2017 of course, but I can't imagine anyone, anywhere thinking that it wouldn't be in the best interest of the team to make sure he could do it more than one year in a row.  I felt it immediately then, and still feel this way - what a bunch of idiots for signing him long-term.  Stupid stupid stupid.  And the guys that had actually earned second contracts knew it too and developed crap attitudes for it.

The only disagreement here is that the BB5 contract wasn't long term at all. It was basically his 5th year option with a 6th year added, the last (7th) year was an easy out year with little dead money. That was Caldwell's standard contract strategy, but to me that was an admission that he wasn't the guy but they wanted to cover their bases coming out of a playoff run. I was fully expecting them to take a qb in the 2018 class and the travesty is that they didn't take Lamar Jackson instead of Tater Cakes Bryan; had they done that we probably excel in the next three years and become a playoff team. I happy where we are today, but it really didn't have to be this way with one or two easy decisions that they completely blew.

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