Gabbert Getting More Snaps With First Team

She’s not evaluating talent. It’s not hard to tell when someone looks good and someone looks bad. I have no reason to not trust her observations.

she does do sideline reporting for the Orlando Magic and Sunshine Network. Is she any less qualified than a contributor to an SB nation Fansite?

She’s just pointing out what she sees. Remember, he is coming off a stiff back as well as surgery on his throwing hand. Her observations, Alfie’s observations, Vito, Lamm, you name it, don’t mean jack! Ultimately none of these folks will lose their job due to Garrard’s performance in practice.

Is there an agenda here?

Garrard won’t be on the team if he loses the job.

Also, the straight up irony in this post is hilarious. That’s all I’ll say.

Leftwich a bad locker room guy? If you only knew.

can i borrow your crystal ball for a few minutes..want to get the lottery numbers for this week.

If Gabbert beats out Garrard, we’re a 5 or 6 win team.

If Garrard holds onto his job, we’re about an 8 or 9 win team who might creep in and win the division as Wildcard is pretty much impossible given the depth in the North and East.

What I’m not getting is people are saying if Gabbert beats him out, why would we lose 3 more games? We’ve all said that Garrard is a game manager at his absolute best but the pieces need to be in place for him to achieve maximum success. Well, the pieces would be in place for Gabbert, the only difference would be…. Blaine Gabbert! With the technology in todays NFL where it is, I don’t see Gabbert crapping all over himself when it counts.

While I don’t think Gabbert should start just yet, there is simply not enough of a sample size to see. The longer Garrard underwhelms in preseason and Gabbert shows a grasp of the offense, then the team is going to be faced with a nice scenario as Gabbert has a higher ceiling than does Garrard.

Thing is, once you make the call to go with Blaine, you cannot go back to David when the going gets tough. If Gabbert wins the job straight up, much like Garrard did over Leftwich 4 years ago, then I will be very interested to see how much of a good teammate David is when asked to take a pay cut. You can’t leave $9M on the bench. I wouldn’t take it very well and the only qb I could think that would and did was Kurt Warner in New York.

Am I the only one who thinks that Gabbert’s throwing motion is a little weird looking? He looked awkward to me throwing the ball. I don’t know.

More like you having an agenda…
If Garrard is the starter, good…if Gabberts is the better player after all practices and pre-season, i wouldn’t sit him just because he’s a rookie. I see you are losing your calm.. Just chill, thee are just opinions, except for 1 or another guy, none’s hating on Garrard and no one is crowning Gabbert.

There’s a difference in saying he’s likely not going to win the job, and flat out refusing to accept it’s possible he can. You’re doing the latter. Anytime it’s even suggested that he could be overtaking Garrard, you swoop in with “but it’s preseason” and “Gene Smith says this” and act like suggesting Gabbert could win the job is ridiculous.

Why don’t you chill with the hyper Garrard defense? Getting excited about a rookie who’s this far along without an offseason isn’t “fanaticism”. Again, no one’s banging drums for Gabbert to be declared the starter right now.

You weren’t a fan of Gabbert pre-draft. You wrote yourself he’d be a bust. You’ve made it a point before you don’t want to lose Garrard and Gabbert shouldn’t start week one no matter what. Chill with calling “fanaticism.”

Well, it’s not that I don’t like Garrard but I remember last year being excited that we got Trent Edwards.

I just want the Jags to win, to have recognition, and to stay in Jacksonville. If Garrard is the guy for that, well then lets see it, David.

Garrard wasn’t being outperformed in last pre-season at all, you can’t judge what he was doing in comparison with McCown who was throwing against guys who weren’t even going to be NFL players. The fair judgement would be vs. starters…if Gabbert won’t have the opportunity to perform against first team defenses then i guess there’s nothing to see here, Garrard is the starter and its final.
And i agree with you about coaches evaluation, we can all have our opinion but we gotta trust their evaluation after all.

McCown faced 2nd and 3rd stringers. Here, the team is giving Gabbert the opportunity to go with first stringers with the expectation that Garrard will win out. I like to think I call it like I see it, and if I felt Alfie or Brian or any other person was obviously biased toward one or the other I’d call him on it, but the fact is Gabbert is giving the coaches something to think about, and I don’t see how we as fans can’t be excited about that. All of a sudden, we have a welcome problem.

He’s eating an invisible sandwich.

It would not shock me at all if Gabbert starts Week 1. It would not shock me at all if Garrard starts all year. It would shock me and probably be a bad sign is McCown starts more than one game this year.

we are still talking about DG right..this isnt peyton manning that can take the pre season off like last year and have a beeter year than most QBs would dream of. DG has a severe problem with consistancy..not practicing the majority of the pre season with hurt his performance in the early part of the season.