Originally posted by Silky:
This is crazy talk. Harbaugh never got a chance to strip the team and start over. He had great success with a core of players he inherited and almost won the SB. I thought that firing was stupid. Let him reload, draft his type of guys, move on from Kaepernick, and begin again. Same with Kyle and John. Let them start over and somehow purge some of these contracts. There's such a high chance of not hitting on the next coach it's crazy
I don't think Harbaugh's ego would've allowed him to move on from Kaepernick. Kap was his hand-picked guy and he finally got his perfect excuse to replace Alex Smith as the starter in 2012. Harbaugh moving on from Kaepernick would've been an admission that he really isn't the QB whisperer many consider him to be.