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Terry Bradshaw: Jaguars QB Blake Bortles needs good players around him

The Action Sports Jax team caught up with Terry Bradshaw on Tuesday ahead of Super Bowl LI in Houston.

The FOX Sports commentator and former Super Bowl-winning Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback offered up his opinion on a number of players, including Houston Texans quarterback Brock Osweiler and Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler.

Then the conversation turned to Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Blake Bortles, who had a tough 2016 season, as many Jaguars fans can attest.

"Ask me about your quarterback!" Bradshaw said to Action Sports Jax sports director Brent Martineau.

"Can a guy go from making so many mistakes to getting it right?" Martineau asked Bradshaw about Bortles.

"Yes, I’m living proof of that. Absolutely," Bradshaw said.

Bradshaw went on to praise Bortles, saying he needs help and he needs good players around him.

Here are more of Bradshaw's comments about Bortles:

"You’ve got to put people around him and you’ve got to coach him up. Once you do that, you can make a determination whether or not he’s there. He’s done too many good things to say, ‘Well, we’ve got to go find a quarterback.’ OK, go find him. Where is he?

"Everybody coming out of college now is zone read, all these kids. Very few pocket quarterbacks anymore. You’re gonna find him in North Dakota State … you’re gonna find him somewhere else. But they’re not in the major programs anymore.

"Bortles, you gotta take care of these kids so they don’t get screwed up where every offseason you gotta send them to a psychology class to get straightened out.

"They’re sensitive, these guys. They get beat up and it messes them up, and they press. I like Bortles. I like Bortles. They just gotta help him. They gotta help him a lot."