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Originally Posted by skinsfan69
I'm not impressed with Gabbert at all. Looks like Jacksonville made a bad pick there.
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No - they made a good pick but it's looking like they got a bad player.
See, this why picking QB's is tricky. At the time, it looked like quite a coup for Jax. Remember, on many boards Gabbert was the number 2 QB in the draft. In fact, as I recall, not many expected him to last to the 10th pick. Jax had a QB in place and expected to be able to let Gabbert sit for a year.
So, they aggressively moved up to get the best QB available and with a plan put him in a situation to succeed. Then sh** happened and he had to start sooner than expected. AND, in doing so, it turns out that all his prospective "pros" - great physical attributes, good intangibles, smart - appear to be, so far, outweighed by all the speculative "cons" - moving from spread offense, not experienced with pre-snap reads, etc.
Meanwhile, Cinci, takes the best WR on the board and waits to see who's available. In doing so, they end up with Andy Dalton (a guy we were rumoured to be after) and now they have a pass-catch duo that looks like they could be set for the next 10 years.
With that in mind, let's just wait and see where the chips fall.