Jacksonville Jaguars vs. Tennessee Titans: Friday Fact or Fiction

Blake Bortles will post a 90+ passer rating: FACT

Through 14 starts this year, Blake Bortles has posted a passer rating of greater than 90 only 3 times (with a high of 97.5 in the quintessential garbage time performance against these same Tennessee Titans). Unsurprisingly, all three of the games where Blake broke 90, he didn’t throw an interception.

So indirectly I’m saying Blake won’t throw an interception.

I’m going off two theories here – I don’t think the Titans have a great pass rush so Blake shouldn’t be pressured too much, and Blake has been awfully safe at times over the past several weeks. Last week’s pathetic performance against Houston in particular was a myriad of low percentage throws before he threw a horrific interception at the end of the game.

The question now is how does Blake get to that 90+ rating. Is it by playing an actually efficient game, or by compiling fantasy stats in garbage time?

While both are likely, the blowout-garbage stats are much easier to see happening. The Jaguars have kept games close for the most part in this year but there’s the added variable of whether or not the players will “check out” now that Gus Bradley is fired.

I think some of them do.