Gabberts challenge, to equal Palmer

[nashman]

I doubt if the sack total would be higher as CP or DS would get the ball out much quicker imo.

You have got to be joking? So let me get this right when BG gets rid of it quickly he’s a check down king, and when he gets sacked because our poo line it’s his fault for holding ball too long... Geesh some of you just don’t even want to give the guy a chance is really all it boils down too.

And your above statement is garbage CP or DS may not have taken as many sacks they would have forced picks instead!

 

[DVontel]

Blaine Gabbert is not good.

Even as a backup QB. He’s just better than an even more bad backup QB son Stanton.

Blaine Gabbert is actually garbage.

End of story.

 

[Shaggy]

I doubt if the sack total would be higher as CP or DS would get the ball out much quicker imo.

No they wouldn't. CP got sacked several times because held on to the ball to long as he had to wait for the play to progress. To let his receivers run the routes. CP had no time behind this line either. So saying they would have got the ball out quicker is crazy.

 

[nashman]

Blaine Gabbert is not good.

Even as a backup QB. He’s just better than an even more bad backup QB son Stanton.

Blaine Gabbert is actually garbage.

End of story.

Your OPINION is garbage! You state something as fact when it’s simply your opinion. Good thing your opinion means nothing in regards to Cards personnel.

 

[cardncubfan]

You have got to be joking? So let me get this right when BG gets rid of it quickly he’s a check down king, and when he gets sacked because our **** line it’s his fault for holding ball too long... Geesh some of you just don’t even want to give the guy a chance is really all it boils down too.

And your above statement is garbage CP or DS may not have taken as many sacks they would have forced picks instead!

Maybe you should apply the below post to your own posts.

Your OPINION is garbage! You state something as fact when it’s simply your opinion. Good thing your opinion means nothing in regards to Cards personnel.

Just because an opinion differs from yours does not mean it is garbage & it certainly doesn't mean your opinion is fact. I think you need to slow your roll before stating things like ''Your OPINION is garbage!''. It's all speculation at best from anyone.

 

[Harry]

There is an issue about Gabbert’s decision making. Frankly when a QB turns around and a guy is about to crush his sternum the only decision is do you just let them carry you off the field? To his credit Gabbert hung in there. My concern is simpler and I think I’ve seen the problem enough to eliminate Gabbert as a long term starting solution. My experience is you can’t teach touch. QBs seem to have it naturally or they don’t. Gabbert throws above average on straight line throws, but is way below average on touch. This includes back shoulder throws which often need some extra arc to let the receiver adjust. These do require an offensive line that gives you time.

 

[Jetstream Green]

There is an issue about Gabbert’s decision making. Frankly when a QB turns around and a guy is about to crush his sternum the only decision is do you just let them carry you off the field? To his credit Gabbert hung in there. My concern is simpler and I think I’ve seen the problem enough to eliminate Gabbert as a long term starting solution. My experience is you can’t teach touch. QBs seem to have it naturally or they don’t. Gabbert throws above average on straight line throws, but is way below average on touch. This includes back shoulder throws which often need some extra arc to let the receiver adjust. These do require an offensive line that gives you time.

There is only one QB which I have seen which was to eventually put some touch on his passes, that being Michael Vick. My brother is a Falcon fan, so I had watched a lot of games early in his career and all his passes where bullets. It was impressive as hell to see a bullet forty yards down the field but that is not advantageous to completing a deep pass and especially when he would throw hot darts at guys merely five yards away from him. Michel Vick did learn to put some touch on his deep balls and more importantly across the field but he was a dynamic scrambling QB which those abilities afforded him time to learn. Gabbert's problem is like a player who lacks quick twitch muscles for speed, he lacks mentally that ability. The guy is not stupid at all, but it takes him too long to process the thought to a physical act

 

[jbeecham]

Blaine Gabbert is not good.

Even as a backup QB. He’s just better than an even more bad backup QB son Stanton.

Blaine Gabbert is actually garbage.

End of story.

Well that "garbage" QB has beat the Jaguars (9-4, just beat Seattle) & the Titans (8-5) and has gone 2-2 in a 4 game stretch that also included games against the surprising 9-4 Rams & a bad Houston team... with all the injuries we have... with our pathetic offensive line & WRs (not Fitz), that's pretty impressive & better than Stanton has ever done. He wasn't great in the Titans game... he had at least 4 passes that he rushed & overthrew the receivers that would've been big plays if he had connected on them. It's not surprising when you're pressured on every drop back & sacked 8 times. A few of those sacks should've been avoided (the one arm shoulder pulldown, the one ankle sack) and he got happy feet a lot in that game and probably ran into 2 more of those sacks on his own. The defense won the Titans game for us and Gabbert didn't screw it up... it was very Stanton-esque. If Stanton had been the QB & had Gabbert's exact stat line then it would probably be the best game Stanton had ever played for the Cards & people would be on here talking about how Stanton just wins games & is 7-3 as a Cards QB.

Gabbert can be a stop-gap if Palmer retires. He doesn't look like a franchise QB, but the team has a chance to be competitive with him at the helm if he can keep progressing in BA's offense & especially if we can get him better protection from the O-Line and some receivers that can catch the ball through contact. The Titans game was the 1st game that he took sacks rather than forcing throws that could turn into INTs. Hopefully that's some progress... throwing the ball away would be better. He's shown me enough to want him as the backup QB over Stanton.

One more thing, our defense gave up 31 pts to the Houston Texans with Tom Savage at QB... if they can't do better then that then we're going to struggle to win any game.