[The Goat]

Thanks to 30Gut for a very informative/important post.

Just want to reiterate that it is Zorn as HC and QB coach that gives me more confidence in JC than anything else. My intuition is Zorn knows exactly what he wants in his QB, he knows what to look for, and already he's said Jason can be successful. Sure Zorn could be wrong but I think his history as a QB and QB coach indicates this is an area of real expertise. Also worth mentioning JC is an extremely hard worker/studier.

The two legitimate criticisms of Jason that may be impossible for Zorn to "coach" IMO are leadership and accuracy. I believe the leadership is coming. Have to give JC the benefit of the doubt on this one because he started here w/ the league's most outspoken RB and a coaching staff/FO that has always seemed to cow-toe to CP and his antics. Again just guessing here but Portis' antics regarding Zorn probably took him out of the leadership role. As the QB Jason is the natural leader and now is his time to establish this - I think we saw hints of it in SanFran from Jason's decision to move the ball on his own and his show of emotion. More of this to come I would guess.
That leaves the accuracy question. So many QBs and coaches have said you got it or you don't. JC does really struggle to be accurate w/ the long ball and it's a real concern. To his credit Jason got more accurate this year on short/intermediate passes. He did a nice job of getting more of his passes down to our shorty's @ WR. Hopefully this is indicative of his ability to improve accuracy in general.

... Jason throws such a nice deep shot - some describe it as pretty even - it would be a GD travesty for him not be able to guide it for completion on a regular basis.