Blake Bortles today — they’ll be charged $16.5 million against the
2019 salary cap by cutting him but they’ll get a cap..."The Jacksonville Jaguars
have huge salary cap consequences from cutting Blake Bortles today — they’ll be
charged $16.5 million against the 2019 salary cap by cutting him but they’ll get
a cap credit for 2020 based on any earnings elsewhere
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deal last offseason. Following a 2017 NFL season that had the Jaguars on the
door step of the Super Bowl, the team gave Bortles a new deal in the hopes that
the light had finally come on. Despite a quick start to the 2018 season, the
wheels seemed to come off against the Kansas City Chiefs and never got right
thanks to massive injury hits on the offensive side of the ball.Bortles was
benched mid-season in favor of Cody Kessler
Jacksonville Jaguars Jerseys 2019 , who didn’t fair any better, and it became clear the Jaguars were going to be moving on.Bortles was given one last start in
the final game of the season and predictably it ended in disaster. He finished
the 2018 season with 13 passing touchdowns and 11 interceptions, more in line
with what his numbers had been through his career outside of 2015.Goodnight,
sweet prince. The Jaguars have their first practice of training camp on Thursday
and defensive end Yannick Ngakoue will not be taking part in it.Ngakoue is
holding out of camp as part of a push for a new contract
Josh Allen Jacksonville Jaguars Jerseys , but that hasn’t put a halt to communication between him and the team. Head coach Doug Marrone said on Thursday
that the team and Ngakoue’s camp have been engaged in talks that will bring the
impasse to an end.“We’ve been talking to him,” Marrone said, via ESPN.com. “It’s
just between Yannick and his agent, management
Marcell Dareus Jerseys Stitched , contracts, but he’s working hard. He’s trying to get this thing done. We’re trying to get this thing done. We’re excited for him.
He’s going to come. He will report. I don’t know when. I know it’ll be before a
certain date, and when he comes we’ll be excited about it.”The “certain date”
Marrone references may be August 6. If Ngakoue does not report by then, he would
not receive an accrued season toward unrestricted free agency and would be on
track to become a restricted free agent after the 2019 season.
