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Old 02-14-2013, 08:31 PM   #58
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Frank Scelfo, the new quarterback coach of the Jaguars, has one of the toughest jobs in pro football this year.

Scelfo’s assignment is to develop Blaine Gabbert into a NFL-caliber quarterback after he struggled in his first two years with the Jaguars.

Scelfo, though, doesn’t see the same Gabbert the fans have watched the last two years.
“I look at it differently than you guys,’’ he said. “You all have an opinion formed after two years of watching [him]. I don’t have an opinion yet. I don’t have a vision of him that is skewed one way or the other.

“I like him as a person. I’ve had a chance to talk to him. He’s very interesting, he’s very outgoing, very comfortable to talk to as Chad [Henne] is. He wants to be successful. He has the motivation inside to be successful, which means he’s going to be a hard-working guy.’’

Scelfo sees a lot of upside, looking at how Gabbert might be viewed today if he’s stayed in school and red-shirted and was in this upcoming draft as a fifth-year senior.

“If you graded him out right now, this is his draft class. If he were coming out and the quarterback draft class the way it is, would he be the top guy taken? I think the answer is yes.

“Ask the scouting departments and the general managers around the league and I think you would end up with a yes on that. Basically at his age, 23, the number-one pick in the draft with two years of experience already under his belt. That’s pretty good.’’


Among the fifth-year senior quarterbacks who are in this draft are Landry Jones, Mike Glennon and E.J. Manuel. Gabbert entered college in 2008 with them and with Andrew Luck and Terrell Pryor, but the latter two didn’t spend five years in school.

Scelfo said Gabbert will still face competition and he wasn’t saying Gabbert will be the quarterback of the future.

“That I can’t answer, that future part. I think he’s blessed with a lot of good tools physically. There’s nothing he can’t do on the football field.

“Because I haven’t been able to talk football with him, we have to figure out where he is and where we’ve got to get him to. If there were issues, then we have to overcome those.”

According to the offseason rules, Scelfo and the other Jaguars coaches aren’t allowed to discuss football with Gabbert until April.


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