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Just the @Bortlesfacts: Jags QB gets Twitter love | Marcus Hayes

It began two years ago: a defense of a failing player by a random supporter who lived 1,000 miles north; just a lighthearted and futile effort to protect the professional reputation of Blake Bortles from the most vicious of his critics.

It has become a Twitter phenomenon.

The account, @bortlesfacts, is a tongue-in-helmet celebration of Bortles’ modest accomplishments, usually presented completely out of context. It caught fire as the Jaguars’ 2017 season heated up. It had 3,000 followers in September, before podcaster Bill Simmons mentioned it and almost immediately spiked it to more than 30,000.