[Abe Sargent]

Stats:


Passing:

QB Blake Bortles – 14 starts, 346 of 476, 3996 yards, 73.3%, 37:12, 113.5 rating, 28 sacks,

Bortles looks solid in basically 13.5 games of stats.

QB Raul Hall, 2 starts, 71 of 95, 814 yards, 74.7%, 8:1, 123.7 Rating, 7 sacks

When your backup does that well, I think we would all agree that we have a strong sub. You cannot argue with that. And if we didn’t win that stretch earlier with Hall, we would have rocked the #5 seed and the Colts would have been #2. Would we still have won on the road and made it to the Super Bowl?


Rushing:

RB Walter Gohl – 244 for 1225, 11 rush TDs; 37 catches for 175 yards.

5th most rushing yards in the league, and tied for 2nd most TDs. That’s not a bad year, and I didn’t think we’d get a big reduction in production after dropping DeMarco Murray and I’m glad to see that was the case.


Receiving:

WR Marqise Lee, 119 for 1625 and 19 scores.
WR Robinson, 12 starts, 57 for 784 and 3 scores
WR Blackmon, 51 for 593 and 7
WR Wild, 43 for 557 and 5
TE Delaroche, ,38 for 410 and 5
WR Donnie Crawford, 15 for 254 and 6

Everybody was catching TD passes!

I like what TE Delaroche brought to the team. Delaroche has two things going for him – he’s an undrafted 2md year guy that’s 42/42 now, and can step in ans my starter next year, and he has an exceptional affinity with our receiving leader, Marqise Lee. Robinson does as well. It seems like Lee is always finding another level.


Special Teams:

WR Blackmon – Was 2nd in the league in KR Avg with 28.5. Only CB Justin Green ,who had two scores in 25 returns, had more.

RB Reggie Brooks – Signed in part to take over Punt Return duties, was 5th in the league among qualifiers for PR average of 11.6.

K Tyler Bernard, 22 of 24, 65 of 66 PAT. Long of 51
P Brad Nortman, 81 punts, 40.6 average - lowest in the league by far. 29 in 20



Defense:

DE Cesar Velazquez, 50 tackles, 18 assists; 22.5 sacks, 5 blocks passes, 25 hurries, 33 QB Kd
DE Kenneth Butler, 33 and 12; 8.5 sacks, 1 block, 16 huries, 2 QBKD
DE Glen Willis, 11 and 2 tackles; 6 sacks, 1 block, 13 hurries, 10 QB KD
DT Quentin Grossman, 33 and 6; 4 sacks, 2 blocks, 6 hurries, 4 QB KD
DT Colin Hover, 20 and 18; 3.5 sacks, 2 blocks, 5 hurries


Zang Cesar!


SLB Courtney Upshaw – 70 solos and 21 assists; 1 pick, 3 pasdef
MLB Melvin Robinson – 10 starts, 64 and 29, 1.5 sacks, 1 pick, 6 pasdef
WLB Houston – 34 and 11, 1 pick, 1 INT RET TD, 2 pasdef


Not a good year for my LB corps


CB Shane Hopkins – 8 picks, 18 pasdef
CB Bryan Meadows – 5 picks and 13 padef
FS Tavon Wilson – 4 picks and 6 pasdef
CB Darqueze Dennard – 1 pick, 10 pasdef
SS Jonathan Cyprien – 11 starts, 4 pasdef
SS George Iloka – 1 pick and 9 pasdef

I think it might be time to jettison Cyprien for Iloka. But we had strong CB play from my rookies the last two drafts in Meadows and Hopkins. Good job!


Blocking -

OG Marquis Satre, 29 KRB, 8 pancakes, 0 sacks allowed
C Roger Pearson, 12 starts, 28 KRB, 1 pancake, 6 sacks allowed
RT Derek Sherrod, 20 KRB, 10 sacks allowed
OG Deion Theophilakos, 15 starts, 19 KRb and 8 sacks allowd
OT Cedric Goldhammer, 16 KRB and 10 sacks allowed

FB Will Johnson, 10 KRB, 3 pancakes. I love Will!

This was a down year for Satre, who suffered with minor injuries much of the season. And was still the best O-Line on a team, so I can’t complain that much. Meanwhile Pearson would have been something nice. Among qualifiers in the league with at least 12 games, Pearson had the 2nd best Block Percentage at 50.9; he was really on fire.

Come on Goldhammer! At some point in time you have to shake off that new car smell and step up to the plate! I’m really glad about extended Pearson. Hopefully Deion Theo will be a nice complement for Satre moving forward now that he got a lot of that green out of his system.