['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

How am I discrediting Gabbert by saying that he wouldn't be undefeated? I'm saying that nothing in his time at Mizzou gives me any reason to believe that he could put together an eleven game run without sprinkling in a couple of disasters.

Daniel never ran the table. Franklin never ran the table. Mauk will likely never run the table. It's incredibly rare, and it takes a special kind of QB who can carry a team at times but also never drags a team down. Gabbert could carry a team for a game, but he was far too prone to disasters.

And the Chase Daniel INT is the play that stands out to me more than any other he made, unfortunately. I never saw it coming. Gabbert's wasn't surprising in the least.

But was Gabbert really prone to disasters? What would happen if you teamed Gabbert up with Christensen or Henson and the skill position players from three years later or sooner? Would you think as poorly of him if he had sat out the Tech game if we had a backup of Mauk's caliber to spell him?

Would you think he was as prone to disasters if Jerrell Jackson didn't let a perfectly thrown ball bounce of his bitchmade face and into the hands of an Iowa DB turning a TD into a pick?

I don't think any MU QB other than Gabbert wins that Oklahoma game. That's still the best team that any Pinkel team has ever beaten, but it gets lost in the shuffle because of how that season ended.