Each day when the Jaguars practice their hurry-up offense, the coaching staff has the one message for 10 players and one message for Blake Bortles.
“Everybody has to go super-fast,” quarterbacks coach Nathaniel Hackett said. “But Blake has to move slowly.”
Sounds weird, doesn’t it? But it also makes perfect sense.
A big reason why the Jaguars have increased their opening five-game scoring average from a dreadful 13.6 to a still-must-be-better 18.8 is their work at the end of the first half. The game has slowed down for Bortles in general and in the must-do-things-quickly situations in particular.