Since Bortles entered the NFL (from 2014-present), he ranks 34th with a passer rating of 80.8 – tucked between Brian Hoyer and Siemian – while completing less than 60 percent of his passes, averaging a modest 6.73 yards per attempt and with 99 TDs-72 INTs (his rating in 2018 is an almost-identical 81.1). Two of the Jaguars four losses — against the Jets in Week 4 and Cardinals in Week 12 — were lost by three points. “Also, the Jacksonville Jaguars are good now,” the Judge said. “It was a weird experience,” Jacinto admitted to Inverse. Same as it ever was. It only feels that way. Honestly, the crux of the argument is, if Bortles wasn't drafted as high as he was, and if the Jaguars didn't sign him to a pay-as-you-go extension with an immediate eject-pilot button in 2019, what precisely would have Bortles earned on the open market? Blake Bortles played out of his mind again, which begs the question: is he actually good? To everyone save for Jags ownership and team president Tom Coughlin and head coach Doug Marrone – who all decided to re-up with Bortles after the 2017 season, and, remarkably, empower him again and again – this comes as less than a newsflash. In fact, we have seen Bortles in a game-winning situation. “Blake Bortles, it’s right up there. That includes the weird long-running jokes throughout the series. The debate isn't  – whether or not he should be the starter on a Super Bowl contender. Within a group of people that recognized me, I’m Jason. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Will Titans be forced to forfeit their Week Five game against the Bills? Again, stop me if you've heard this one before. 2020 Showbiz Cheat Sheet, All Rights Reserved. Welcome to Rams Wire's European Union Experience. And then on Sunday they couldn't score in Dallas until trailing, 24-0, late again in the third quarter in garbage time and again facing a defense willing to sit back and concede yards and points to kill off the game. Brissett was an immeasurable upgrade at QB over Tolzien and played well considering his lack of o-line, offensive weapons, and woefully inadequate HC. By: Cameron DaSilva. “And if I get an opportunity to play, great. Because of this, Seattle is 8-5 and in a position to make a deep playoff run. Backup qb’s should be not seen and not heard, Coaching can make a world of difference. That adds up for a rating of 49.83. It should be interesting where things go from here. By comparison, Russell Wilson has thrown for almost 2,000 yards while the Seahawks have been trailing. One unexpected joke is Jason Mendoza (Manny Jacinto) being a diehard fan of Blake Bortles, the starting quarterback of the Jacksonville Jaguars. All Rights Reserved. On the ensuing drive — with under a minute left and no timeouts — Bortles scrambled and was almost tackled in bounds. The show’s running joke led to Manny Jacinto getting an invite to a Jaguars game in January 2018. But whatever it is, it’s yo’ fault!”. He was a 1st round pick (of an incompetent fired GM), but wasn’t producing for us. Oh, and guess who else is tied with Bortles in the turnover race? And would there have been a single other team in the league who would hand him the starting job with no meaningful competition as the Jags did (Cody Kessler is the back-up in Jacksonville, lest you forgot)? 1, and Browns soar to No. Because expectations have been ratcheted up to new levels in Jacksonville, and hopes were high after a couple of playoff wins, and they won't be able to keep this defense together for more than another year or two, and they don't have playmakers on offense, and Fournette is getting ruled out every Monday for the following week with this latest hamstring issue. Luckily for the Jaguars, they still play in the AFC South, where mediocrity plays as quality given the historical grading curve required with these sad-sack reams, and where all four clubs currently carry a negative scoring differential into Week 7 (Cumulative division scoring differential: -69). Maybe one of these receivers steps up to some large degree, as remote as that prospect seems given their limited pedigrees. Jason is meant to fit many Florida stereotypes. @Robert Thompson – The Pats only got Philip Dorsett in their trade for Brissett. I had to juggle.”. Rams is a registered trademark of the Los Angeles Rams LLC. Andrew Luck and Deshaun Watson. Ex. If we’re going to compare Bortles to franchise players, this is what we end up with. After five seasons in Jacksonville, Blake Bortles is now in Los Angeles as the backup quarterback for the Rams. 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Could he beat out, in a fair fight, the likes of Josh McCown or Teddy Bridgewater or Chase Daniel or, gulp, dare I even broach the name of the quarterback the NFL tries to pretend doesn't exist, Colin Kaepernick? Perhaps, things will get incrementally better whenever Fournette returns, though his availability has been a prevalent question. If the powers that be in Jacksonville were willing to fool themselves after Bortles' brutal 2016, and then pretend that his 2017 playoff was some sort of a breakthrough, then there is no reason to anticipate them doing anything drastic now. Look at Matt Cassell, Jacoby Brissett & Garapolo, all performed well enough to garner the Pats high draft picks. They bullied the Jets the following week, then failed to score on the suspect Chiefs defense until garbage time deep in the third-quarter while already trailing, 23-0. Here is everything you need to know. Well you’re in serious need of coaching Blake! Luckily, the team beat the Buffalo Bills 10-3 and the actor got to make a video as his character. And if that's the case, at this point, you might as well make it a double. Let's take a look. BREAKING NEWS: Blake Bortles does not lead the NFL in turnovers. His last year was a total bust. The game against Baltimore was a 44-7 blowout where Jacksonville never trailed, and the Seahawks was against a defense missing two key cogs in the Legion of Boom (Richard Sherman and Kam Chancellor). "Blake Bortles, the man Chris Simms has said wasn’t put on earth to throw a football, was regarded as a better fit." Bortles has put together back-to-back weeks where he’s looked like an actual quarterback. It’s Stockholm Syndrome to think that a couple good games means that Borltes is suddenly someone who won’t end up being more of an anchor than anything else. Only, the problem is even more acute now than ever. Favorite Stats Quote(s) “The best thing about being a statistician is you get to play in everyone’s back yard” -John Tukey “All models are wrong but some are useful” – George Box “To call in the statistician after the experiment is … It’s critical for a Qb to play for a coach that has the know how or it will be very difficult to succeed. Bottles lost his job because of his shortcomings, not because of bad playcalling. He didn’t blame his problems on the coaching iat the Jaguars. If he’s an MVP talent, or a quarterback capable of leading a team to a Super Bowl, he needs to play like it all the time. Yeah, the hits just keep on coming. Titans validate themselves as AFC contenders, Week 6 Power Rankings: Seahawks are new No. Subscribe: via iTunes | via Stitcher | via TuneIn | via Google Play. Put Bortles in that situation and the results are not the same. To be fair, the Jets and Steelers games were two months ago but put the game on the line and the ball in Bortles’ hands, all of a sudden things look a lot different. Him being a huge supporter of the state’s NFL team despite it not being known for being good is part of that. But in the end, there might be a lot more fans of Blake Bortles just because of Jason Mendoza’s fascination with him. washing out of the AAF after a profanity-laced outburst, Denver Broncos' Melvin Gordon facing 3-game suspension for DUI, NFL owners move 2024 Super Bowl out of New Orleans, Week 5 NFL Power Rankings: Dak Prescott, and the NFL's brutal truth, Anatomy of a play: Justin Herbert working the Yankee concept against the Saints, Watch: Josh Allen delivers rocket to T.J. Yeldon for Bills' TD, New York Jets release Le'Veon Bell and RB seems fine with it, Watch: Ryan Tannehill joins Jared Goff with weak TD celebration, Watch: Derrick Henry stiff-arms Josh Norman into oblivion, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. If not, then I spent a year learning from McVay, and being around a really good organization.”. It didn’t end well. The teams he has racked up stats against — Houston, Indianapolis, Cincinnati — are all staying home. It's conceivable the defense pitches a few shutouts and negates the possibility of the offense falling behind by 10 or 14 or 20 points at halftime. All in all, a fair trade. The decision to extend Bortles – even in so much as that extension truly provided nothing guaranteed beyond the 2018 season – threatens to doom a season that started with teammates like Jalen Ramsey guaranteeing a Lombardi Trophy. Jacksonville was able to kick a game-tying field goal and then win in overtime (thanks to a Jalen Ramsey interception) but the tape on Borltes doesn’t lie. That means the only real outlier is against the Rams, a game Jacksonville lost. It wasn’t just a QB that needed to a major overhaul and upgrade. We'll never pass along your email address to spammers, scammers, or the like. Blake Bortles is who we thought he was, and that's bad news for the struggling Jaguars The Jaguars went all in on Bortles and so far, their faith hasn't been rewarded They’re gonna make the playoffs. His interception percentage (2.9%) ranks 33rd, tied with Brock Osweiler and Trevor Siemian, and just a smidge better than Jay Cutler and Blaine Gabbert (3.0). At UCF, he was a wide open type of QB, much the same as the Rams run. But there is a downside of the show mentioning the NFL quarterback so many times. The AFC South can't be stopped! “I don’t follow football as closely as I follow basketball, but I know that he was sort of drafted because he looked like a quarterback.”, He then explained that the first Blake Bortles joke in Season 1 already existed. So he says “Bortles!”, the way a**holes who play pickup basketball say ‘Kobe!’ when they make a bad shot.

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