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Blake Bortles is your quarterback, deal with it

The Jaguars and NFL social media stratospheres are once again up in arms about the play of quarterback Blake Bortles, following the Jaguars starters beating half of the NFC playoff teams from 2017 in the Saints, Vikings, and Falcons by a combined score of 24-9 over a three preseason game period in which the opposing team’s starters played.

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Last season’s en vogue targeting of Bortles by national media pundits and Twitter “experts”, has returned for the 2018 season, following two performances from the quarterback that weren’t aesthetically pleasing enough to appease many who judge such things on social media and television.