“He’s got a strong arm. He can move out of the pocket. He’s intelligent, [can operate] the no huddle,’’ Mularkey said. “I think he can do a lot of things for us. And I think the guy wants to be coached. You can tell some quarterbacks think they know it all. I don’t have that feeling [about Gabbert],” he said.
He said Gabbert reminds him a little bit of Matt Ryan, the quarterback he coached in Atlanta.
“With Matt, it was never good enough. Even when it was good, it wasn’t good enough. I think he [Gabbert] wants to be good. It’s important to him,” Mularkey said.
Of Gabbert’s habit of sometimes ducking in the face of the pass rush, Mularkey said, “I don’t want to get into the things that took place last year, but [I think] there were things in his head even before the ball was snapped. He knew there may be a chance the rush could get to him for a variety of reasons. I don’t want to step on any toes, but I’ve got to get that out of his head.”
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