Originally posted by paulk205:
Look, he's not one of my favourite QBs or anything. One of my most cherished memories of the Harbaugh years was Kaepernick outplaying him at his own place in the 2013 playoffs and making fun of his posturing. But at his best in both college and the 2015 season in the pros, he was elite. Did he mess up in the SB and show himself to be petulant afterwards? Sure he did, but he still had an amazing season up to that point. He's no Montana or Marino or Brady or anything, but he was very, very, very good at his best. I am interested in the opinion of someone who played at that level. I don't agree with him, for the reasons I outlined, but it's not worthless like the average shouty youtuber/Steven A type, or as hilariously sad as the frustrated nerd of the Steven Ruiz type (is there something with the name Steven?).
Cam was a superstar no doubt, he carried that offense for years but it did feel like his comments were very self serving. It seems clear to me at least that he views himself as the prototype for what a game changer is at the QB position, that you have to be physically dominant, a big arm, tremendous athleticism, all that good stuff. His tone suggested that he views QB's that don't have those overt abilities to be somehow lesser, to be "game managers" and it seemed like was almost offended that a QB like Purdy, Dak or Tua might win the MVP and share that distinction with him.
Then he did a follow up and lost me even further, he seemed to backtrack a bit on his game manager slam, calling Brees, Peyton Manning and Brady game managers but then went to the "game-changers are the tractors and game managers are the trailers" analogy. Like dude, you think Peyton Manning was a trailer? Peyton Manning was a game changer, he was the system, he was the offense, the offensive coordinator, just say you don't respect QB's who didn't run around the way you did and lets move on.
