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11-03-2015 02:55 PM |
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Originally Posted by rico
(Post 11862211)
What is your opinion on Gabbert and his potential? I have always wondered why he has busted so badly. I don't know much about him... Just remember him from the bowl game vs. Iowa and a Chiefs vs. Jags game... Plus I remember reading an article where they wrote about him having a photographic memory.
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He pretty much got put into the worst situation you could ever imagine professionally. When the Jags drafted him they still had Garrard, but rather than letting him sit and learn for a year, which they should have done given his cheap contract, they threw him in halfway into the second game of the year. He had nothing around him and a terrible coach who was coaching for his job, so he went to someone who wasn't ready to buy himself time.
After that, he went through two more coaches and OCs in two years while also battling injuries and his only playmaker drank himself out of the league after a year.
It also didn't help that his college QB coach taught him to play flat-footed, which makes it terribly difficult to actually scan through your reads and throw with any accuracy, so he had to learn footwork, drops, and read NFL defenses (which was never asked of him at Mizzou).
Nevertheless, he may have never worked out just because he never had a feel for the pocket. What's interesting is that people always bash him for playing afraid, and maybe he was, but he also displayed the most toughness I've ever seen from a Mizzou QB when he didn't miss a game after Suh basically amputated his foot on a dirty-ass play.
He's probably a great example of why you can never really tell with an NFL QB. He was very smart, had a good football mind, elite size, he could make all the throws, and he was a really good athlete.
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