Originally posted by billbird2111:
I love today's news headlines. Monte Pool and other beat writers are screaming the following opinions: THE STEELERS NEED TO SIGN COLIN KAEPERNICK NOW!!!!!
LOL! Is Kaepernick paying these guys or are they serious?
"BUT HE TOOK THE 49ERS TO THE SUPER BOWL IN 2012!!!!!"
LOL! Actually, our defense and Frank Gore did that. Plus, check your calendar. It's 2019.
"BUT, BUT, BUT HE'S A MOBILE QB!!!!"
LOL. He was in 2012. Today he has the mobility of a ham sandwich.
Seriously, do these beat writers actually believe this junk they're shoveling? Or is it really all about clicks??? Cause that's all Kaepernick is worth these days: a click.
I don't think that Kap actually played himself out of the league per se...…..I think he did within the context of the 49er structure at the time. He wasn't fully developed a QB like say Russell Wilson is now where he could be ok in any situation.
So it's very possible Kap could come into a very good situation and be a pretty decent QB (assuming he can pick up where he left off in 2016). Based on many metrics, the Kap of 2016 was better than the Kap of 2014 who won 8 games with the defense and Gore/Hyde doing a lot of work. The Kap that left the league might have been better than the possibly overrated 2012/2013 Kap…...I didn't watch all the games of Chip Kelly era 11 time zones away, but I caught the Dolphins game where he looked pretty decent.
And BTW, I bet a lot of Niner fans are like me:
We defended Kap before he was a household name to non football fans. I was fighting the good fight that he was a decent QB, still possibly better than Wilson.
I remember many annoying rival fans not giving Kap credit in 2014, 2015...….and they started to change their tune to fit a virtue signaling woke narrative in 2016-2017. That to me was annoying AF and made me not want him to have any success, even at the price of him being our own QB!
Biggest tragedy with Kap is that we didn't surround him with the guys he needed the way Shanahan does for the team now. Letting a proper X in Moss go and Delanie Walker was huge. Probably with some semblance of those guys kept we win the SB in 2013.
Oh well....