Quote:Agreed.  We finally have a QB who has the gunslinger mentality.  He's not afraid to take chances.  As he matures as a player, the expectation is that the mental mistakes will dissipate. 

I appreciate the 'gunslinger' mentality (I guess...); but what I think I want to see from our young quarterback is what (for lack of my ability to better express myself) I would call 'cautious aggression'. I still want to see aggressiveness from our quarterback... but want it tempered with a little bit more caution too. I want to see him going down field and not just an endless stream of 'Lee for 4 yards'.... having said that however, I don't want him trying to make plays so hard that he ends up making bad plays. The 'phins game was a classic example; remove those pick six's and fumble in the red zone and we win that game. Blake just needs to cool his jets a little until he has a better grasp of the elements around him... then he will know when he should change into 'gunslinger' mode or ride in 'game manager' mode. Right now, I think his 'default' setting is 'gunslinger'. He needs to change that to 'manager' with the option to go 'gunslinger'.

That's what I think anyway... but what the 'heck do I know?

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