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)? “Seeing how he coaches, how all the other coaches coach and how the guys are receptive and take it, I’ve never seen anything like it,” Bortles said. In fact, Bortles is only tied for second in the league with nine giveaways through six weeks, one behind Derek Carr. But in the end, there might be a lot more fans of Blake Bortles just because of Jason Mendoza’s fascination with him. If Tom Brady had been drafted by numerous teams, he would have failed. It's hosted by Will Brinson and it's all the things you're looking for: news, fantasy, picks, really, just football stuff for football people. That means the only real outlier is against the Rams, a game Jacksonville lost. So instead of Kobe, it’s Bortles. We shot a thing for my episode in Season 1 where Jason throws a Molotov cocktail at a speedboat, and we ad libbed it. 1, and Browns soar to No. No team can win that way, and this team as presently constructed certainly can't survive that, even against other offensively-strapped teams like Tennessee and Dallas. 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? Because Bortles is not a good NFL quarterback, has ever-so-rarely even given the appearance that he might be a decent NFL quarterback, and the decision to entrust this team (and it's vaunted defensive unit) into his hands again could come with grave ramifications. Jaguars fans deserve a winner and this could be the happiest few years they’ve experienced since the 90s. Bortles has put together back-to-back weeks where he’s looked like an actual quarterback. More like he never bothered to listen to the coaches until he got cut. He also wants to use this opportunity to make himself better while holding a clipboard, a career transition that many quarterbacks hate and can’t find the positives in it. Let's take a look. Jacksonville has a world-class defense that deserves better run support than it’s getting. Steve Young was considered a bust in Tampa, he gets an opportunity with Bill Walsh and he is in the HOF. Two of the Jaguars four losses — against the Jets in Week 4 and Cardinals in Week 12 — were lost by three points. Bortles has been playing better, but consistency is what the Jaguars need. At UCF, he was a wide open type of QB, much the same as the Rams run. It didn’t end well. It's not even  – whether or not to keep him around at $18M a year. The outliers are games against the Rams, Ravens, and Seahawks. “I didn’t know whether to be Manny Jacinto or Jason Mendoza. Blake Bortles played out of his mind again, which begs the question: is he actually good? Week 10 against the Chargers, the world watched as Bortles did everything in his power to lose the game in the final minutes. Among games where Bortles posted a QBR of 80.0 or higher (8-games, to be clear), over 60 percent of them came against non-playoff teams.