Aren't you the guy who was obsessed with Manti Te'o and Louis Nix?
If the Texans had drafted Bortles they would have been much better off.
In 2015 they wouldn't have had to go thru QB hell with Hoyer and Mallett carousel while Bortles had more TD passes.
In 2016 you wouldn't of had to go through that terrible horrible awful Osweiler fiasco from which the Texans have still not recovered, saved tons of money and draft picks too, while Blake Bortles was throwing for 35 TDs.
In 2017 Bortles may have been able to get the Texans to the AFC Championship game like he did the Jags. A place the Texans are not familiar since they have never been.
Not to mention that Bortles 103 TDs were much more productive than Clowney's 32 sacks.
They wouldn't have drafted a Sexual Pervert and become the laughing stock of the NFL. They wouldn't be in the pickle they are today.
If you and the Texans had listened to me 7 years ago, you know I could have saved you 6 years of heartache with Bill O'Brien. And you were such an O'Brien 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 than Bill O'Brien.
I think I will favorite this post and every time you want to have a 7 year old Bortles discussion I can copy and paste this for you again. Carry ON.
Your spin has big flaws:
1. Bortles threw 4 touchdowns while in the lead, 6 touchdowns while tied, and 58 touchdowns while trailing. That means he was a garbage time QB. That was as of December 31st 2016.
2. You assume O’Brein would have been able to have the same success as the Jaguars would have done with Bortles. That is a huge leap of faith. OB doesn’t know QBs.
3. Bortles had a league high 75 interceptions during his starting career. Almost as much as his TDS he threw. Horrible. Name a QB who threw for more interceptions during that time.
4. In Bortles first three years he fumbled the ball 29 times. Almost as much as Clowney’s sacks. Horrible.
5. In 5 short years of playing Bortles is tied at 34 for the 13 pick sixes. Joey Harrington and Matt Schaub are at 14. He got so high in such a short amount of time the DEA raided his house.
6. Bortling. That’s what Bortles created. A word to describe bad throws, bad decisions, turnovers, and interceptions. Bortles is nothing but a poor decision maker, inaccurate, and folds under pressure.
7. The Texans mistake wasn’t in the draft. Their mistake is hiring OB. Had he never happened in Texas we would never had the QB carousels we had.
8. Your assumption that drafting Bortles would have kept us off the QB carousel isn’t correct. He would have been a draft bust for us. Nothing more.
9. And you can’t fault the Texans for hiring OB. He was highly touted and regarded as the top coach to hire that year. The mistake is not firing him when Rick Smith stepped down.