He had better teammates at Missouri than what the Jaguars had last season- and played against NFL defenses. I’m not concerned too much with his throwing. His fumbling is what concerns me most. He can still be a good QB, but not great. I never thought he would be great. Newton and Mallett were the only two out of that class that had any greatness factor out of that class. Dalton is overrated as crap, he’s nothing more than a game manager and Kapernick looks like everything that scouts criticize- funky throwing motion, weak competition, up and down team record, etc. Locker was inaccurate. He can work on that some, but there is only so much you can do about that.

thacloser86 says: May 14, 2012 11:55 PM

Mel Kiper and Todd Mcshay should both be fired they always boost players draft that turns out to be BUST.

Do you really, really, really think that any general manager or personnel specialist on any NFL team listen to anything that Kiper, McShay or any other sports network/Internet “expert” thinks when they’re deciding to make a pick? Seriously, is that what you believe?

Having seen every Jaguar game last season
and every play involving Gabbert (something hardly anyone commenting here can say), I’ll say one thing: watch Luke McCown’s performance against the Jets in game two, and then you’ll understand why an inexperienced, not-really-ready rookie quarterback was thrown into the fire the way Gabbert was. Making excuses for Gabbert would be easy, and no one on that team thought it was going to be easy for him. But the idea of McCown continuing to play the way he did was just too much for anyone to stand.

Gabbert is going to be a much improved player this season and he’s going to shock a lot of his naysayers. And then I’m going to be barbequing and serving a whole lot of crow. Free, too.

He was drafted in the top ten, the Jags gave up their 2nd round pick for him also. He sucked so bad last year people have the right to think he’ll never be worth the draft pick. Nothing will change that until he plays much better.

I would rather hear from Mularkey that Gabbert has to earn the starting spot over Henne instead of him basically saying it’s being handed to Gabbert.

Blaine is secure to start his second season, while the word out of Tennessee is that Hasselbeck is still #1. Locker is a couple of years older than Gabbert, and had half the Wonderlic score. O.K., a bit less than half.

Razzano also predicted Jake Locker will be a star (which looks likely) AND at his Razz Report site that Chase Daniel IS a worthy NFL prospect as the earlier poster noted. It is a joke a proven talent evaluator like Razzano was unemployed while confirmed failures like Cardinals GM Rod Graves mumbles/bumbles thru a 30 yr career.

Brady & Warner had a lot of work to do to improve, Rodgers had a goofy throwing motion and was way too skinny to be durable.

Go figure. Brees’ back-up Daniel was, is, and will be a much better QB than Gabbert.

- Gabbert coming out of a spread system, gets no offseason
- Is supposed to sit for a year behind Garrard, Garrard released, and is thrown into the fire after Luke McCown implodes
- His starting receivers throughout the year are Mike Thomas, Jason Hill, Jared Dillard, Chastin West, and Cecil Shorts – CFL level receivers
- Plays for a head coach that’s checked out and shows up at 9am with a bunch of lame duck assistant coaches on one year contracts
- His QB coach has never coached QB’s before
- Has Guy “turnstile” Wimper starting at RT after injuries

So he played badly and has footwork issues to work on. You have to give the guy a pass for last year, especially if you believe he’s a Top 10 QB.

He’ll have some help this year and we’ll get to see what he’s made of. Let’s put away the pitchforks until at least December.