{"id":10391,"date":"2014-05-22T11:22:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T15:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=10391"},"modified":"2014-05-22T11:22:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T15:22:03","slug":"jaguars-want-chad-henne-to-start-all-16-games-leave-blake-bortles-on-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/05\/22\/jaguars-want-chad-henne-to-start-all-16-games-leave-blake-bortles-on-bench\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguars want Chad Henne to start all 16 games, leave Blake Bortles on bench"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7183\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7183\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/chadhenne.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"416\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/chadhenne.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/chadhenne-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/12\/chadhenne-50x35.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Jacksonville Jaguars drafted Blake Bortles as the No. 3 overall pick, the first quarterback off the board, but the team is not counting on him to start in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on ESPN&#8217;s\u00a0<em>SportsCenter<\/em>, Adam Shefter confirmed previous reports that the Jaguars wanted incumbent quarterback Chad Henne to start all 16 games next season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They do not want to put (Bortles) out there at all this season,&#8221; Schefter stated. &#8220;They want Henne to play, ideally, this entire season.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>It is debatable whether or not the Jaguars have a better chance to win right now with Bortles or Henne. Either way recent signing Toby Gerhart is going to get a lot of action in the Jaguars backfield if the team is to approach the 500 mark.<\/p>\n<p>Signed to a two-year deal the Jaguars want Henne to mentor the younger Bortles.<\/p>\n<p>In 15 games last season Henne completed 60.6-percent of his passes for 3.241 yards and 13 touchdowns while throwing 14 interceptions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jacksonville Jaguars drafted Blake Bortles as the No. 3 overall pick, the first quarterback off the board, but the team is not counting on him to start in 2014. Appearing on ESPN&#8217;s\u00a0SportsCenter, Adam Shefter confirmed previous reports that the Jaguars wanted incumbent quarterback Chad Henne to start all 16 games next season. &#8220;They do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[136,141,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-10391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-chad-henne","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10392,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10391\/revisions\/10392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10391"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}