The long list of disappointments from the Jacksonville Jaguars nightmare 2016 season starts with the regression of quarterback Blake Bortles. While some analysts tried to tarnish his growth in 2015 as garbage-time production, Bortles showed a lot of promising progress in his second year.
That progress was all but negated in 2016 as Bortles failed to become the type of passer the Jaguars needed to overcome historically bad coaching.
There are a lot of reasons why Bortles failed to entrench himself as a franchise quarterback this season – awful coaching, a terrible running game, untimely drops from his receivers – but it really all boils down to the breakdown in his mechanics and his lack of advancement mentally as reader of defenses.