Most national analysts who don’t really dive into the play of each team have one singular impression of Blake Bortles – he’s one of the worst quarterbacks in the NFL.
That’s patently false (Bortles is ranked 12th in QBR) but it’s an easy stance to take because Bortles has yet to prove himself on a big stage.
Heading into the postseason, you would expect a lot of folks to write off the Jaguars because they think Jacksonville has the worst quarterback in the postseason.
They would be wrong.
Field Yates over at ESPN ranked all 12 starting quarterbacks playing this postseason, and surprisingly enough he didn’t have Blake Bortles dead last:
Regular-season stats: 315-for-523 (60.