Quote:If it were just Gabbert then it would just be dismissed.

 

Unfortunately it's not just Gabbert.

 

Gabbert went from a guy that could manage a game and not throw too many INTs to a guy that just imploded under Fisch.

 

Henne went from a guy that would just chuck the ball around to completely enfeebled after Hurns' big first quarter of the season.

 

Bortles obviously regressed under Fisch as it seems Fisch was emphasizing all of the wrong things.

 

I wanted Peyton Manning's rookie season out of Bortles, with a damn the INTs, be aggressive mindset, not Gabbert's rookie season.

 

 

Yeah but there's no telling that Gabbert wouldn't have imploded regardless of who the OC was. He doesn't seem to have Blake's mental make-up anyway, and he's been dealt a bad card with all the stuff happening around him.

 

Henne was captain checkdown even in his days in Miami. That was the knock on him, so him holding the ball (it actually became a knock on him that he held the ball too long and got sacked too much) last season to look downfield perhaps is an abberation.

 

And yes, I am disappointed in Blake turning into checkdown mode. I didn't mind the INTs, despite how frustrating they were. I wanted him to continue pushing his limits and learn from them in the off-season, not go into full on turtle-mode like he did.

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