{"id":12886,"date":"2014-11-26T12:48:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T17:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=12886"},"modified":"2014-11-26T12:48:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T17:48:27","slug":"jaguars-head-coach-calls-out-blake-bortles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/11\/26\/jaguars-head-coach-calls-out-blake-bortles\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguars head coach calls out Blake Bortles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_11692\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11692\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/09\/blakebortles.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"424\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/09\/blakebortles.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/09\/blakebortles-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11692\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nJaguars head coach Gus Bradley spoke critically of rookie quarterback Blake Bortles while assessing his play in Sunday&#8217;s loss to the Colts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe can play better. \u2026 At times, he holds the ball a little too long. \u2026 His decision-making isn\u2019t as quick as we need it to be. \u2026 He\u2019s young, but we expect more.\u201d said Bradley via the <a href=\"http:\/\/jacksonville.com\/sports\/football\/jaguars\/2014-11-24\/story\/bradley-expects-more-bortles-jaguars-passing-game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Florida Times Union<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bortles was 15-of-27 passing for 146 yards and one interception making it two straight games without a touchdown pass.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the press conference Bradley took a moment to praise Bortles, preventing a full on throw him under the bus routine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe appears to be strong and very confident. I think he wants to give more and wants to produce more. \u2026 We\u2019ve seen progress in his decision-making; he\u2019s throwing fewer interceptions. \u2026 We don\u2019t want to take away his freedom to make plays.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaguars head coach Gus Bradley spoke critically of rookie quarterback Blake Bortles while assessing his play in Sunday&#8217;s loss to the Colts. \u201cHe can play better. \u2026 At times, he holds the ball a little too long. \u2026 His decision-making isn\u2019t as quick as we need it to be. \u2026 He\u2019s young, but we expect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[639,141,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-12886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-blake-bortles","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12886","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=12886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12887,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12886\/revisions\/12887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12886"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}