Found August 31, 2012 on Juan Elway: Yardbarker Blogger Network
I’m not as scared this year Juan… I always love listening to Greg Cosell break down film. He talks NFL and film breakdown on Shutdown Corner, which you can listen to here. He broke down film on several different QBs last week including Blaine Gabbert.  Here is what he had to say about Mr Gabbert. “It’s a very multiple run-game and here’s what the pass game is now to help Gabbert, it’s a lot of short drops and quick throws,” Cosell said. “They simplified his reads. They’ve made him quicker and more decisive. In the last game, a very basic NFL route combination, it’s probably a basic Pop Warner combination, the flat-curl, was used for five or six snaps. Then you add another element into the flat-curl, what we call a ‘seam-seal.’ to keep the inside defender to get in front of the curl.” “They’ve done such a good job to make him more comfortable and more decisive,” Cosell continued. “He even had one or two throws where there were some bodies around him and he made them. They’r
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