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Notebook: Jacobs could get the axe
By: Jim Wexell
SteelCityInsider.com
Date: Aug 7, 2006
LATROBE – Quarterback Omar Jacobs must improve his grasp of the offense or the fifth-round pick will be cut in favor of Shane Boyd. That’s what sources at training camp are saying, and the revelation has nothing to do with Steelers coach Bill Cowher using Boyd ...
... Boyd instead of Jacobs with the second team in the one-minute drill that ended Monday’s practice.
Cowher explained that Boyd and yesterday’s first-team, one-minute quarterback, Charlie Batch, will likely play quarterback at the end of each half Saturday in the preseason opener at Arizona.
“We’ll try to give Omar one before the week’s out,” Cowher said. “More than likely it’ll be those two young kids in the second half of some of these games coming up.”
Fans should take it as a warning because Jacobs in particular is struggling with the offense.
“It’s like learning a new language,” he said. “You go into Spanish class for the first time and you’re like, huh? Then you slowly, gradually learn.
“It’s a lot of motion and formation changes; that’s the main thing. Then you have to play with new guys for the first time so you have to get their timing down, and offense is timing. Ben [Roethlisberger] and Hines [Ward] are on the same page; they know where each other’s going to be at all times. A backup quarterback is kind of judging when his receiver’s going to come out of his route. It’s hard to get the timing right now.”
Jacobs is a big, strong quarterback with a lightening-quick release. The coaching staff considered him a valuable prospect coming into camp, but because of his difficulty understanding the offense he’s in danger of falling behind Boyd, the quarterback whose only pro experience occurred last spring in NFL Europe.
“The real tough part for me is trying to say the long plays verbatim back to them in the huddle,” Jacobs said. “That’s throwing me off my game, too. It’s tough. You say the long play; then you have to remember what you said, who’s doing what and when they’re doing it. Then you have to remember to take the right steps, the right progressions. You just shake your head, like, man.”
Is there a light at the end of the tunnel? Or is the tunnel pitch black?
“No, somebody poked a little hole in it,” he said. “They poked a little hole and I see a little daylight. It’s there but I’m far from it.”
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By: Jim Wexell
SteelCityInsider.com
Date: Aug 7, 2006
LATROBE – Quarterback Omar Jacobs must improve his grasp of the offense or the fifth-round pick will be cut in favor of Shane Boyd. That’s what sources at training camp are saying, and the revelation has nothing to do with Steelers coach Bill Cowher using Boyd ...
... Boyd instead of Jacobs with the second team in the one-minute drill that ended Monday’s practice.
Cowher explained that Boyd and yesterday’s first-team, one-minute quarterback, Charlie Batch, will likely play quarterback at the end of each half Saturday in the preseason opener at Arizona.
“We’ll try to give Omar one before the week’s out,” Cowher said. “More than likely it’ll be those two young kids in the second half of some of these games coming up.”
Fans should take it as a warning because Jacobs in particular is struggling with the offense.
“It’s like learning a new language,” he said. “You go into Spanish class for the first time and you’re like, huh? Then you slowly, gradually learn.
“It’s a lot of motion and formation changes; that’s the main thing. Then you have to play with new guys for the first time so you have to get their timing down, and offense is timing. Ben [Roethlisberger] and Hines [Ward] are on the same page; they know where each other’s going to be at all times. A backup quarterback is kind of judging when his receiver’s going to come out of his route. It’s hard to get the timing right now.”
Jacobs is a big, strong quarterback with a lightening-quick release. The coaching staff considered him a valuable prospect coming into camp, but because of his difficulty understanding the offense he’s in danger of falling behind Boyd, the quarterback whose only pro experience occurred last spring in NFL Europe.
“The real tough part for me is trying to say the long plays verbatim back to them in the huddle,” Jacobs said. “That’s throwing me off my game, too. It’s tough. You say the long play; then you have to remember what you said, who’s doing what and when they’re doing it. Then you have to remember to take the right steps, the right progressions. You just shake your head, like, man.”
Is there a light at the end of the tunnel? Or is the tunnel pitch black?
“No, somebody poked a little hole in it,” he said. “They poked a little hole and I see a little daylight. It’s there but I’m far from it.”
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