"When we’re warming, up he’ll put his hand right on my chest and I can’t wind up and throw because that’s what I was doing," Flowers said. "Now, it’s just keep it at a 90-degree angle and release it. Everything’s falling into place just by listening to him. My release has gotten quicker. My ball location, my accuracy."
Gilbert came from Texas with Strong, but his past is filled with quarterbacks who all had their unique style, from Jimmy Garoppolo to Shane Buechele. The offense he wants to run is a variation of what he learned from Art Briles at Baylor, a system Gilbert believes offers the flexibility for any type of quarterback to run it.
"You don’t have to say, 'Hey, I need this kind of guy to run this offense,'" Gilbert said. "There’s some simplicity in it, but there’s a ton of formations with it, where you can say quarterback-wise, this is what we need to do. Maybe some offenses don’t have that flexibility, but within this offense it lays there, so we’re able to go grab it and go use it."
Once spring practice ends, Gilbert will sit down with Flowers and talk about the direction the offense should go.
"He’s really talented and coming back off what he did, it’s one of those things where don’t reinvent the wheel with him," Gilbert said. "We’re just in a hurry to find out what he does best, and let’s go do that. It’s not like we’re going to try to take him down another path and make him comfortable with something new. It’s like, 'Hey, let’s do what he does really well, and let’s do a lot of it.'"
Gilbert came from Texas with Strong, but his past is filled with quarterbacks who all had their unique style, from Jimmy Garoppolo to Shane Buechele. The offense he wants to run is a variation of what he learned from Art Briles at Baylor, a system Gilbert believes offers the flexibility for any type of quarterback to run it.
"You don’t have to say, 'Hey, I need this kind of guy to run this offense,'" Gilbert said. "There’s some simplicity in it, but there’s a ton of formations with it, where you can say quarterback-wise, this is what we need to do. Maybe some offenses don’t have that flexibility, but within this offense it lays there, so we’re able to go grab it and go use it."
Once spring practice ends, Gilbert will sit down with Flowers and talk about the direction the offense should go.
"He’s really talented and coming back off what he did, it’s one of those things where don’t reinvent the wheel with him," Gilbert said. "We’re just in a hurry to find out what he does best, and let’s go do that. It’s not like we’re going to try to take him down another path and make him comfortable with something new. It’s like, 'Hey, let’s do what he does really well, and let’s do a lot of it.'"
