Blaine Gabbert

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Blaine Gabbert | Jacksonville Jaguars | QB

2012 Experience: 2nd Season

Fantasy Football Outlook: To say things didn’t go well for Blaine Gabbert, is a kind way to say he didn’t look like an NFL quarterback, year one. Gabbert was consistently knocked for his lack of pocket presence, and even doing so when do pressure was around. I’m not ready to give up on Gabbert just yet, mainly because I don’t feel the Jaguars old coaching staff was prepared or had the proper know how to develop a quarterback.

As a 49ers fan, I’ve seen what happened to Alex Smith over the years with defensive minded head coaches, who seem to have an attitude that the quarterback position isn’t top priority for a teams’ success, and basically looking at them and saying, “don’t screw it up.”

Gabbert will have a better situation this year with new Head Coach Mike Mularkey and upgrades at receiver with Laurent Robinson, Justin Blackmon and even veteran Lee Evans coming to town.

For Gabbert to be an effective quarterback, he will need to learn how to play under center (came from a spread, shot gun style offense in college) and hopefully Maurice Jones-Drew will need to remain as one of the elite runners in the game.

Common thought today is that you need a good passing game to set up the running game, but in Jacksonville, it will remain more traditional with the offense going through MJD and the running game, first.

Gabbert clearly has no fantasy value this year, but lets hope he can continue in his development, to make receivers like Blackmon and Robinson viable fantasy starters.

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