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Jacksonville plays at Cincinnati (4-2-1) on Sunday.
The Jaguars (1-7) want Bortles to cut his interceptions in half over the final eight games of the season. With 12 picks in five and a half games, Bortles is on pace to tie Peyton Manning's NFL rookie record for interceptions (28) set in 1998.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Jacksonville Jaguars are willing to live with rookie Blake Bortles' turnovers.
"If we're at 12 right now and we can have this second half of the year at six, I think we can consider it a win," offensive coordinator Jedd Fisch said. "So we just have to continue to build off of that."
After the game, Bortles made it clear he was shouldering the blame for the turnovers and the loss, saying,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, "I'm killing us."
Caldwell and Bradley expected growing pains with Bortles on the field, especially since the rebuilding Jaguars have one of the youngest rosters in the league. Jacksonville has two rookies and two second-year players on its offensive line, three rookie receivers and a second-year running back.
"I guess it's part of it,Cheap Jerseys Store, so I will continue to try and learn from these things,Cheap Jerseys Wholesale," he said. "I will continue to learn from the things I do wrong and try and improve and do more of the right things. .... It's just about being able to move on from it and forget about it."
"That's how I still feel," he said Wednesday. "Nothing changed. I didn't say that because I was mad or anything. I think it's the way everybody's playing. The defense is playing extremely well. The offensive line is doing well. Our running game is rolling. Our receivers are doing a good job, and now I've got to take it to the next step.
"It's just that we trust in him. He has a conscious. It's not that he doesn't care about throwing interceptions. It hurts him, but I think the best thing we can do is to teach him to learn from these difficulties and grow from them. That's really what we're looking for him to do."
The Jaguars didn't plan to play Bortles this early in the season. General manager Dave Caldwell and coach Gus Bradley had hoped he could sit behind veteran Chad Henne a while before making the switch.
"We all want to help him," Bradley said. "Everybody is like, 'Don't throw any more picks. Be careful.' ... We don't want him to have any fear. Just ball, man. Now, make good decisions. Fear doesn't mean reckless.
Bortles has thrown five interceptions in the last two games, including two that were returned for touchdowns in a 27-13 loss to Miami on Sunday. He also fumbled inside the 30-yard line.
All of the youngsters are making mistakes — whether it's dropping passes, missing blocks,Nike Air Max 95 Sale, making the wrong reads or throwing interceptions — and as a result,NFL Jerseys China, Jacksonville ranks 30th in the league in total offense and last in scoring at 14.8 points a game. But Bortles' mistakes, much like any quarterback, have gotten the majority of the attention.
"What's the deciding factor? It's been the turnovers. I think anybody can see that and they've all come from me so something's got to change in order for that to be successful,Jerseys Cheap NFL."
The Jaguars have raved about Bortles' ability to bounce back from mistakes, saying he's unflappable on the field and on the sideline.
At least some of them.
But that changed after Henne completed a little more than 50 percent of his passes and was sacked 16 times in the first two-plus games.
And even though they want him to have better ball security, they don't want him playing scared. |
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