I guess I can see where some teams would have been scared off by that. He’s a more talented passer than Gabbert though, by far.

I think Gabbert went to what was probably the 2nd or 3rd worst franchise he could have gone to at the time of the 2011 draft. I mean, the owner holds onto David Garrard long enough to sell some season tickets (and pimp him at the yearly fundraising luncheon), but not long enough to pay him an $8M salary due if he made the roster. In fact, I think he cut him hours after the luncheon. Talk about a world class P.O.S.

Then, after McCown fails miserably in two starts, you dump in a rookie QB with no offseason and virtually no time to prepare as the starter (he was inserted week 3, against us, IIRC). No, he did not play well, and that is the bottom line. I guess what I’m getting at is it may be a tad early to move on from him if you are the Jaguars.

They are under new ownership, so that’s a start. They’ll give him the offseason, but monitor him closely. They’ll see if he can beat out a veteran journeyman in camp. If he legitimately can (pomp and circumstance aside), then they’ll give him a few more games. He has a few physical attributes you can’t teach, unlike, say, Jimmy Clausen (they had eerily similar rookie seasons, IMO). So if someone has hope enough to give us a draft pick for Pickles, I think Jacksonville will try to surround him some better pieces/support staff and see how it goes.

And in case you are wondering, when the CSR blog war was raging between team Gabbert and team Newton, I was in the front shoveling coal into the Cam train. This is not a veiled attempt to make excuses for Gabbert—just my opinion on what has and what will transpire.

Thanks. I like to think there’s nothing I wouldn’t do for my team. Lol!