The NFL won’t have ol’ Blake Bortles to kick around anymore. The veteran quarterback announced his retirement Wednesday, wrapping up an eight-year career in which he threw just two regular season passes after leaving the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2018.
It was an announcement met on Twitter, like most things, with jokes. Bortles was an easy target throughout his career for many reasons. Primarily because he played football like a man named Blake Bortles for one of the biggest punchlines in the league. He was swampland Jay Cutler, a big-armed passer with meathead sensibilities who genuinely seemed to love a game determined to drain the life from him.
