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Jaguars, Blake Bortles encouraged by preseason performance

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Blake Bortles had one critique about his performance in Jacksonville's preseason opener.

Not surprisingly, it involved what essentially was his only incompletion.

Bortles completed 11 of 15 passes for 118 yards in a 23-21 victory against Pittsburgh last week. Of his four misses, three of them were dropped passes that should have been caught. The other was the one that stood out to Bortles, who spent much of the offseason tweaking his mechanics and footwork.

Bortles stepped up in the pocket on third down, elongated his windup and overthrew tight end Clay Harbor in the end zone.