Originally posted by Giedi:
Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:
I just don't agree with your whole premise, especially when you bring up guys who barely saw the field, so either their speed was influencing the defense from on the bench or you are just throwing out stuff to make excuses for a QB who simply started visibly regressing as soon as the NFL had some actual tape on him, his tendencies, his weaknesses against man coverage and the blitz, his tendency to get baited towards running across the middle where defenders would be waiting as well as staring down his primary target. There was too much for NFL defenses to exploit.
It wans't the offense, it wasn't the coach, it wasn't the GM, it was the QB. At some point your quarterback has to step up and show progress, even when everything around them isn't perfect, especially when they are being paid like a franchise QB.
I think in a vertical passing offense with a good run game and a strong OL, Kaepernick could be a pretty good game manager, but that is about it. Much like a Tyrod Taylor, a guy who puts up some nice numbers but has many of the same limitations as a passer and as a result, will be a journeyman QB for the rest of his career.
It took Steve young 3 years before he mastered the art of reading defenses. In the meantime, he was coached by a legend and had legendary WR's. Don't tell me AJ Jenkins was on Harbaugh.I'll state again what you haven't really refuted. When did Baalke draft a credible NFL TE and WR?
Not going to pretend Baalke had the whole drafting WR thing down but you're giving Kap way too much credit and same thing for Harbaugh.
Let's not forget Harbaugh couldn't identify talent on his own rosters from Stanford. Letting guys like Baldwin and Sherman go to Seattle while he acquired studs like Jonathan Martin. We know Baalke was ass at this point but we have no idea if it would be any better with Harbaugh controlling the players.
What we do know is that Harbaugh was super stubborn about adjusting his offenses in that he didn't...where as Kyle is always trying to improve and do something different Harbaugh basically bashed his head against the wall until he broke through.
And I think the issue with Kap wasn't that he didn't know the offense but that he just couldn't process the offense and what the other team was doing as fast as was needed on the field. He was a smart guy so that wasn't a question but he just never improved in the mental game on the field and that's what held him back. The fact that he took on Harbaugh's hard ass persona didn't help things either. It's like he was so hell bent on proving people wrong and making himself his own man that he failed to do the work others have done to get better.
For someone who looked as good as he did the year we went to the SB it really was a damn shame. I thought he was going to be something special but the improvement just never came.
