One person was beating the drum for Manning, and he was the same person who thought Bortles was the next best thing.
You know Manning and the Manning family have more knowledge about the NFL and the NFL X and Os in their tiny pinky fingernail than the collective knowledge of this entire message board and every other NFL message board.
Compared to the Texans, over the first 5 years of Bortles NFL career Bortles was a much better thing (actually a better effect thru this season)
Looking back the Texans would've been so much better off had they drafted Bortles:
In 2015 they wouldn't have had to go thru the Hoyer and Mallett carousel while Bortles had more TD passes.
In 2016 you wouldn't have had to go through that awful, horrible, terrible Osweiler fiasco, saved tons of money and draft picks too while Bortles threw 35 TDs.
In 2017 Bortles may have been able to get the Texans to the AFC Championship game (a place they have never been) like he did the Jags.
In 2017 the Texans would NOT have drafted a sexual pervert as the face of the franchise and given him a $156,000,000 contract in 2020.
In 2021 the Texans would not have had to pay the Pervert $10MM to sit his butt on the bench for being a sexual pervert.
Not to mention that Bortles 103 TDs were much more productive than Clowney's 32 sacks.
If you and the Texans had listened to me 7 years ago, you know I could have saved you 6 years of heart ache with Bill O'Brien. You were such a cheerleader. I said at the time OB would fail like the 8 Belichick assistants who went before him. Who knew my clairvoyance would've seen that Blake Bortles would've been a better option for the Texans and Bill O'Brien would not?