No one wants the Jaguars quarterback job, apparently.

“There were times tonight where I played fast, but there were times tonight when I was thinking. And I know that, the coaches know that and that just comes with experience. [It] comes with being in the offense more than just a couple days of training camp…”

-Blaine Gabbert

After a so-so performance this week… he’ll go throw three touchdowns next week against buffallo on three drives. That is if Underwood doesnt drop one

And I have solved our QB problems. When Garrard has his crap games… put Gabbert in. When Garrard has his good games. Leave him in…. I smell a championship.

That being said. If our offense can replicate last years performance and our defense plays like it did tonight then i think playoffs are a real possiblity. That being said… those are some big IFS.

I was surprised to see him put it up there early in the first quarter. It’s preseason, so he might as well, but I doubt he’d be throwing deep balls like that in the regular season. I liked seeing DG move his feet in the pocket. He’s great at avoiding pressure and finding the open guy. He missed a few passes tonight tho. Didn’t have FULL CONSISTENCY.

Gabbert was not very effective with his first half reps. Those were with the first team offense from what I could tell in the stands, btw. He bounced a pass on his first drive that would’ve been a nice 15 yard gain or so. Once the third quarter rolled in, he looked better. Made a real nice throw to Inman for 20 yards or so.

Personally, I thought the ball he threw to Murphy was ill-advised. Didn’t look like Murphy was a second or 3rd read, but the RB was trailed by a LB and had a safety over the top. Risky pass. Would’ve been real pretty if Murphy had caught it, but it would’ve looked dumber than that if the defender had made a play.

About Garrard and Gabbert.. i agree with you Alfie, this “controversy” was starting to get some hype and we at least could agree that was a “good side” controversy, and game comes and both them play kinda bad…not horrible, Garrard had worse pre season games. But if this is an open competition, it’s still open with advantages for Garrard i guess.

At how many people thought ‘’Garrard definitely looked better than Gabbert’‘. To me, Alfie said it best, Garrard didn’t do anything to seperate himself, and Gabbert did nothing to grasp hold of the starting position. I’m not saying Gabbert looked great, but to say that Garrard was definitely better is a good stretch.

I thought the offense stalled once Gabbert came in. Garrard certainly didn’t do anything spectacular in terms of passing, but the chains were moving easily enough. Once Gabbert took over, we started to seriously struggle to stay on the field. Sure, there were some drops which didn’t help his cause….. and he did make some nice passes, but overall I thought Blaine wasn’t quite getting things going. His inexperience was obvious…. as was his potential.

He needs time. Did anyone think he was going to come into the NFL and immediately be the next Tom Brady? No. He hasn’t fallen on his face, though. I think he has promise.

Our 2nd string guys are not as good as Atlantas 2nd string players.
BG had only Shorts as something close to a good WR, and that guy is a rookie too. Binns wasn’t bad, but still….
And on that sack BG took, it came right through the middle tnx to our OL Moll, what could he have done?

I think the controversy, and competition is over. I went into the game last night with a very open mind. I have preached all week “let the best man win” the starting job. From what I watched at the Bank last night, that man is David Garrard. Two preseason games to go, and a few weeks of practice, so I guess it is not a done deal. Looking forward to watching how this plays out, but at this point, my money is on David!

This is my thought process, if Gabbert was pushing David going into the game, and Garrard laid an egg but Gabbert didn’t do much to show he was much better than David, why not roll the dice and go with Gabbert. I mean it sounds like there wasn’t much difference between the two, and this will eventually be Blaine Gabbert’s team so let him start.

The way Gabbert has picked up the offense which is, allegedly, quicker than the coaching staff thought he would. We’ve been talking about how this is Garrard’s job to lose but I’m wondering if we’re all looking at it wrong and it’s actually Gabbert’s job to lose since everyone seems to say right now there’s not much difference between the two gameplay wise. And if they’re so similar right now, maybe they should go with Gabbert since he at least has more room to improve than Garrard does.

he made a couple of mistakes, but some of his passes were right on the money – perfectly thrown. Hethrew one down the sideline that was broken up by a nice defensive play, but the pass was dropped right in the bucket. He led a couple of WRs perfectly. Finally, I thought it was great when he was getting run down and threw the ball out with a lefthanded throw. No way DG does that.

Like Joe said earlier, same old Garrard. Overthrows Marcedes (who is 6’6", BTW), throws a terrible pick, and completes a few short slants.

I think Cecil Shorts looked great – not including the awful botched reverse/fumble. ZAnd my boy Armon Bimms got the game winning TD…

Honestly, even though the statistics of the performances were similar, I feel more comfortable with Gabbert’s performance. The errors he was making were ones you’d expect from a rookie adjusting to the NFL game. He even admitted that he was thinking too much after the game. Garrard’s errors were compounded by his history of committing those same types of errors. Also, he had many inaccurate passes, even when he had time in the pocket. The comment about the Mike Thomas pass also rubbed me the wrong way. It didn’t sound anything like what a leader should say.

Neither Garrard nor Gabbert were great. Let’s wait until after the Buffalo game (Where the starters will play longer) to see who is truly winning the QB Battle.

Gabbert played against the first string defense in the 2nd quarter and the Falcons 2nd string defense in the 3rd quarter.

In the 2nd quarter, Gabbert was 4-11 for 35 yards and earned only 2 first downs in 3 drives. That’s also 3.1 yards per attempt and well below 50% completions.
In the 3rd quarter, Gabbert went 7-12 for 63 yards. Better completion percentage, but still only 5 yards per attempt.

The way I see it, the final numbers don’t tell you how well Gabbert played. The first half numbers (against the ones) is what is actually important, and Gabbert did not do well.

Still preseason. Go Jags!

Cecil Shorts, though. Strong showing.

Brian stated that even if BG performs better than DG he thinks DG should get at least a chance to show his wares to start the season. He asks, “What can it hurt?”

If the mindset of someone is that you will not start the best player for the sake of someone who has been the starter then you can’t possibly find a common ground upon which to discuss the topic.

Furthermore, he wants to play semantics with the word “better”. Better at accuracy? Better pocket presence? Better arm strength? Better leader? Better mechanics? It is an absolutely ridiculous tactic and neuters even his own position. Should we create a matrix and assign point values to what is considered more valuable as a “better” qualifier? Last I checked better is defined as grasping the offense, hitting your open receivers and leading the team to points.

The simplest approach, IMHO, is to observe how they perform and if neither out performs the other you start the veteran. I appreciate that is a debatable position to hold and I’m open to a stronger counter argument that would sway me from hold this position. The key is to be player agnostic. Who really gives a damn who is under center. If I see more Ws than Ls or if I see more TDs than INTs then I’m ok.

I don’t care if my Jaxson DeVille bobblehead figure is the QB. If it out performs all the other folks then put him in.

We can talk QB all day, but how come are we not discussing what’s going on with the OL? Throw any QB there and with this OL play none will succeed.

So, screw you guys… i’m going home.

ffs
stop the ridiculous back & forth already
you’re both wasting a lot of the readers time by debating the same points ad nauseam
how about this? you are both right and both wrong. move on

I have a new angle I just thought about. Jacksonville got a nice advertisement last night. What are people talking about today? Sure as hell ain’t blackouts and relocation.

Think about that for a minute. Remember week 15 when we were the darling of the NFL?

those two guys were not looking good at all. I was much more impressed with the O-line which I figure to be a weakness

ok. everyone take a break
for you peaceful folk, go have a drink. or take a long walk.
for you crazy shmucks, go wrestle a bear that has just chugged 10 red bulls.
for those of you who really dont care? well, carry on