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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
Let's assume two things:
1) Missouri plays Alabama in the SECCG next week
2) Every other player on the team is the same, save for QB, and every coach is the same as exists right now
You can drop any player into that spot: Smith, Daniel, Gabbert, or Franklin.
Almost universally, people will put 2007 Chase Daniel in that game. I'd choose Gabbert. I'm not saying his career was better. He didn't win as many games, and his stats weren't as pretty, but I think there are important mitigating factors that are discounted post haste because it's easy to look at the gaudy stats and conflate that w/ unsurpassed excellency.
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I understand where you're coming from here. Gabbert might give us a better chance to win. He also gives us a better chance to get crushed. That's the thing... Gabbert on his best day was better than Daniel on his best day...but Daniel on his average day was better than Gabbert on his average day...and Daniel on his worst day was light years ahead of Gabbert on his worst day.
That's why I can't even entertain the possibility that Gabbert would have strung together a perfect season. Not with this nor any other team. He is prone to terrible lows. That's his nature. It's who he is as a QB. He's gun-shy, and he lacks the competitive instinct of Daniel. When I think of Chase, I think of a guy who hates to lose...at football, beer pong, or booger eating contests. With Gabbert? As soon as the game is over, I think his mind is on going hunting or fishing.