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Barring injury Telvin Smith Color Rush Jersey , Blake Bortles has probably played his last down for the Jacksonville Jaguars as the starting quarterback. Head coach Doug Marrone announced on Monday that Cody Kessler would be the starting quarterback against the Indianapolis Colts and I’d have to think that outside of a Nathan Peterman level performance, Kessler will likely be the Jaguars starting quarterback for the remainder of the season.That means that Bortles’ Jaguars career would effectively be over and done with.With the team making the move now to bench Bortles, for the second time this season, as the actual starter it means they no longerview him as a long term viable option at the position, regardless of the contract or cap hit that he has. The Jaguars gave Bortles a three-year extension last offseason, as the team was as Tom Coughlin put it “a whistle away” from the Super Bowl. The team gave Bortles a three-year, $54 million deal with $26.5 million guaranteed, including a $15 million signing bonus.The biggest question now is what do the Jaguars do with Bortles and can they get out of his contract? Can they afford to simply cut him? More or less, yes, they can. The Jaguars are going to have to make some decisions on the defensive line next season, but they can clear a lot of cap room very quickly which will afford them the ability to eat the dead money from Bortles’ contract, especially if they plan on picking a quarterback in the first round. If the team moves on from Bortles by straight up releasing him this offseason, they’ll save $4.5 million on the cap but also have to eat $16.5 million in dead money. They can off-set that by designating Bortles a post-June 1 cut, making the total cap savings $9.5 million and the dead money $11.5 million in 2019 and $5 million in 2020, but they don’t get that extra cap space until after June 1 T.J. Yeldon Jersey , which is well after the NFL Draft and free agency.The Bortles era however, is over. It was a wild roller coaster ride of an era, to be perfectly honest. It sucks that Blake was not successful, because he seems like a genuine “one of us” kind of guys and he always busted his ass. I will never ever fault Bortles for that, he was a gamer and always tried his hardest and never backed away from the music. He simply just wasn’t good enough when you boil it all down. He needed perfect situations to function and as soon as things went awry, you could see the downturn coming. The 2015 season, even though they got their face pushed in a lot, will always be fun. The Jaguars had a quarterback who was second in the NFL in touchdown passes. How insane is that? I don’t care that a lot of them were meaningless garbage touchdowns, they were still touchdowns and 35 touchdowns is still 35 touchdowns. The 2017 season will always be magical. Everything aligned. When Blake had his Blake games, the defense drug him to wins. When the defense had some struggles, Blake played with a horseshoe up his ass and put up points. He went toe-to-toe with the Steelers in Pittsburgh in the playoffs and was a drive away from putting the team in the Super Bowl against the Patriots in Foxboro. Dave Caldwell and the like gambled big on being able to repeat 2017 and it blew up in their face, spectacularly. While the Bortles era certainly wasn’t good, it was very fun for some big chunks of it and I think Blake as a person, because of his personality, will always be remembered fondly. All throughout the Jacksonville Jaguars’ game yesterday to the Houston Texans Lerentee McCray Color Rush Jersey , I noticed a very strange trend building as the game went on — comparing Gardner Minshew to Blake Bortles.It was weird to see popping up after every third down stop or sack or fumble that Minshew suffered because, well, they couldn’t be any more different.We’ll cast aside the fact that the mistakes Bortles was making came in his fifth year and that comparing him to a sixth round rookie making his first career start tells me more about Bortles (and, frankly, you as an observer) their styles of play and things that both quarterbacks hang their hat on aren’t even in the same stratosphere.In broad strokes, Bortles is a high-risk, high-reward guy. There is no middle ground. He will either take over a game or lose it for you in spectacular fashion. (Usually it was more the latter than the former, but we’re still healing.)Minshew, however, is incredibly efficient. He’s not as strong-armed but he makes good decisions in his reads and isn’t prone to turnovers.If you distilled all of Bortles’ games with Jacksonville into a single outing, you’d have this sort of box score: 21-for-35, 235 yards, 1 touchdown, 1 interception, and 6.7 yards per attempt.That’s just the average Corey Grant Jersey , however. His games ranged from the fantastic (a five-touchdown performance with zero turnovers back in 2015) to the morbid (92 yards on 28 passes). See what I mean? High variance. In more than one-third of his games over his career, he finished with less than 200 yards. He had multiple turnovers in half his games. And on the other side, he scored multiple touchdowns in nearly half his games.In short, you never quite knew what you were going to get with Bortles. His average box score doesn’t look as bad as it was because the point with Bortles wasn’t about box scores — it was that he could throw four touchdowns one week and four interceptions the next. He was a model of inconsistency.But where Bortles failed to consistently be the same guy week in and week out, Minshew has been largely the same guy in each of his first two games.In Week 1, Minshew was not at fault for any of his three incompletions or his one interception. He’s been very accurate — 69% completion percentage or better in both games — and he’s not really been at risk for interceptions. He took too many sacks yesterday and fumbled the ball away three times, but I think that’s directly attributed to poor offensive line play and his being a rookie who just learned seven days ago he’s the starter for the next two months. It’s not who he is, but rather a typical trait of rookie quarterbacks, especially those thrust into the starting role with no notice.Minshew also gave the Jaguars a chance to win, despite a poor run game and lackluster play calling. It almost looked like the coaches had him on a leash the first three quarters but when they had no other option Minshew shined.In short, what we’re seeing in Minshew is a quarterback who is developing some consistent expectations for his team and for the fans — he’s accurate, he’s a good decision maker, and he’s not interception prone.The same could not be said for Bortles.