Quote:The Gabbert pick oozed of the fact that a highly touted guy (by the TV analysts) fell and the Jags FO was desperate to draft a QB.  I was shocked that we picked him as it was completely unexpected.  Sort of like an impulse buy.  The Bortles pick appears to have been well thought out and discussed.  The confidence that Dave and Co has in Bortles makes me OK with this pick.  Complete polar opposite player compared to Gabbert if you watch his games.

 

Also, everyone brings up Alualu and while he has not developed into a stud he is still a solid player.  In fact of all of Gene's first round picks he was the most criticized yet is the only one still on the team.

Until you feel the weight of the media scrutiny deliberately trying to destroy you, you will never fully understand the power they have nor the abusiveness they harm people with.

 

http://youtu.be/5QaVzv5aR6U

 

The Gabbert pick was 100% completely media-driven. The stage for stand-off was set a year or so prior. The Gator-infested media had the franchise under siege. On the air and in print, they were daily undermining David Garrard in order to make Tim Tebow grow in size.

 

He wasn't elite. He didn't have Tom Brady stats. The contract envy angle was fairly raw and disgusting.

 

It made no sense at all until it was realized that they were inducing descent leading up to the college graduation of Tim Tebow.

 

Alualu was more of a thumbing of the nose at the media ringleaders of the Tebot movement than a quality draft selection. Gene Smith reached badly on that one as if to deliberately skip over Tebow by design.

 

With Gabbert, I am sure Gene Smith and Wayne Weaver hoped to slam the door shut, but worms like Frenette kept using their media credentials to perform the work of Tebot worms.

 

Blah. Blah. Blah.

 

"even if he's released" has now led to passive aggressive revenge on part of Tebowmaniacs. It's manifested in the person of Blake the Fake, a completely fabricated cream puff baked up by Binky in Rat Town.

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