M-C-G wrote:MikeIsGood wrote:LikeABosh wrote:
I remember when he was apparently better than Rodgers
Jaws said he was going to be the best QB in NFL history.
I was just thinking, should that be a fireable offense?
He said he *could* be *one of* the best after Kaepernick's first [partial] season starting where he took them to the SB. It didn't seem THAT crazy at the time considering it was a far milder statement than credited here, his age, and what he did that first year.
I don't think it's really that Kaepernick has gotten worse, though. He's just stayed the same and they need him to do more. He hasn't done his homework, the 9ers pass offense is some super simple this-or-that ****, and everybody has him figured out. His strength is the read option, but the league has figured out that you just hit the QB every time and it's become less savory for teams that have a lot invested financially in the QB (like the 9ers now do).
We had a ton of discussions about teams like the 9ers and Seahawks a few years back when they were really healthy and benefiting from cheap QBs. The 9ers just had an historic exodus of guys retiring/declining, plus Kaepernick got paid, plus they have drafted poorly. These are all things we said COULD happen to them -- that all of them happened at once explains why they turned **** so quickly.
The Seahawks have had to pay guys and have continued to do well with acquisitions and prioritizing, and they're now good in a more ordinary way -- you can only do so well with a hard cap once you have to start paying your core guys. So they're still toward the top of the league but no longer have the advantages they once had. Predictably.