i feel like only winning 1 out of 4 playoff games for us somehow makes this name not exactly accurate
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I don't know...how would he improve them? He probably wouldn't.

With Bortles, you can make the argument that he was much more negatively affected by the changing of offensive coordinators than Smith was early in his career. Because with Bortles there was a significant dip from 2015 to 2016... with Alex, he went from Shitty to Shitty to Shitty to Shitty to Shitty to Shitty.

In 2015, Bortles threw for 35 TD's with Gus Bradley as HC and Greg Olson as OC. In 2016, he threw for 23 TD's (8 more than your Alex) with Gus Bradley as HC and Nathaniel Hackett as OC.

And this year he has a different HC.


I think the likelihood of it being a staff-compatibility thing with Bortles is much more likely than it was for Smith in his early years...due to the significant drop in production. Like I said, with Smith, there was no drop. He was constantly shitty until the playbook was watered down to work around his limitations.
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The ATL game our Defense/Special Teams accumulated for two touchdowns and the Pick-2. With Alex's ONE touchdown we get blown out of the game.
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Alex set up the punter and the fake punt like a boss.
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It wasn't Dorsey who put Mahomes on the Chiefs radar it was our GM Brett Veach

https://mobile.twitter.com/jeff_rose...40812849864704
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Good news.
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Veeeeeeeech!
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The Steelers did move the ball pretty much at will between the 20's. Primarily due to the fact that the Chiefs dee had to respect Brown / Roethlesberger from going deep and that allowed Pitt to run the ball, when they got inside the 20's and could move the S's up into the box they pretty well shut them down. No it was not dominant game but it was about a perfect of a game the dee could have played in today's NFL and given the Lb's injuries.

On the flip side the Pitt dee got away with moving extra defenders into the box and really did not respect Alex. It was a very winnable game for a QB.
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Our defense doesn't really dominate teams per se, at least not good teams. It's all turnover based and is predicated on generating a pass rush. If they can't do that or if we are playing a great QB who isn't rattled by it, they have a hard time getting stops. Or as you stated, a team that can run the ball all over them like Pittsburgh is going to cause huge problems, because a team that can play ball control against them takes away their bread and butter.

'The defense won the Falcons game' made me chuckle though. I seem to remember the defense having them put away and then giving up 2 4th quarter touchdowns and needing a flukey INT return for 2 in order to pull that game out of their... hats
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[QUOTE=penbrook;13022158]It wasn't Dorsey who put Mahomes on the Chiefs radar it was our GM Brett Veach


Veach let Dorsey know about Mahomes via voicemail, per Dorsey's normal procedure of doing things. Kidding.
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Why would the Jags trade for Smith? Have they completely lost faith in Bortles ever developing?
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I just don't see this happening this year. Mahomes is our future, but he still needs grooming. While I agree Smith won't get us much next year, if anything, it would have to be some kind of crazy offer to let him go this year.
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Nailed it.
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Agreed. There's an objective post. :-)
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The Falcons should have been super bowl champs, so for someone to say our D is nothing special, I'm just gonna have to disagree.
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