Just a year ago a vastly improved Blake Bortles received a lot of negative analytics measurements in a game in which he led the Jacksonville Jaguars to 51 points. In that game he received a -5.3 grade from Pro Football Focus despite three touchdowns and 250 yards with no interceptions.
To PFF’s credit, they weren’t the only ones scoring Bortles low. Five Thirty Eight’s “The Jaguars Scored 51 Points; Blake Bortles had Practically Nothing to do With It” was also particularly scathing.
This isn’t to say that Bortles didn’t have an excellent day as a quarterback, but as Daniel Lago argued in his original piece, it is important to also separate ability from the straight statistics.