Quote:His pockets are one of the cleanest I have ever seen and he often has 4-5 seconds to make the initial read and see and wait for the route to open up. Jimmy Clausen and Blaine Gabbert looked like All- American's in clean pockets. Its about how a qb responds to pressure. 

 

He is definitely not a pocket passer

 

Gabbert I will give you. He was in the traditional spread and very rarely was under center and almost never had pressure.

 

Clausen though looked like an NFL QB in college. No doubt that having Golden Tate and Michael Floyd helped him immensely but he showed good pocket presence and appeared to have an NFL arm. I can honestly say I don't know what the hell happened to him. He was completely lost in the NFL. Probably alot of that was mental but if it was, he never showed it in college.

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