The noise about Jaguars quarterback Blake Bortles hung around this off-season: His fundamentals regressed, he took too many sacks, he threw too many careless passes, he wasn’t ready to play, blah, blah, blah.
Enough already, people. But don’t listen to us, listen to general manager Dave Caldwell, who took No. 5 with the No.3 pick last year.
“He was just doing things to survive last year,” Caldwell said.
Survive. The key word to describe Bortles 2014.
Thrive. The key word to describe Bortles 2015.
Thirteen-and-a-half games of experience under his felt, Bortles will be The Man when he reports to training camp Monday.