Actually, that’s just Hackett’s nature. He is genuinely excited about what can happen this season, his second full season as the team’s offensive coordinator. You can see in his facial expressions and the tone he believes Blake Bortles is on the brink of being a star in this league.
Maybe we all should believe it as well.
“The one thing that was consistent throughout the whole [2017 season] was Blake, and Blake getting better and better,” Hackett said Tuesday when he spoke with the media at the team’s fourth OTA practice. “If he keeps progressing on that upward hill, good things are going to happen.