Quote:I agree but If Leftwich could have stayed healthy he would have been pretty good. Maybe never elite but pretty good.

 

Bortles has already looked like more of a QB than Gabs ever did... so not sure why he even gets clumped together with the others.


TBH... this franchise has only missed badly on one QB, Gabbert... but that GM missed badly a lot.

What is so hard about letting Dave build this team his way and THEN judging the results.

 

Leftwich left the Jaguars with a winning record as a starting QB.  He wasn't spectacular, but in the right situation, he probably could have done pretty well.  Unfortunately, he never found that ideal situation, and injuries just piled up on the guy.  As a pure pocket passer, he had a great football IQ, a bazooka for an arm, a windmill delivery, long strider with no mobility, and was brittle as a piece of chalk.  They drafted this guy and paired him with an offensive coordinator who was a Walsh disciple who was mostly a west coast offense guy, and stuck him behind a line that wasn't much better than what we saw last year.  The one positive is that at least his line knew where he was.  He wasn't scrambling out of the pocket. 

 

Leftwich was unfortunate.  Gabbert was truly a miss.  He looked the part in shorts, was a practice warrior, but a miserable failure once the lights went on. 

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