Jikkle wrote:49er4life1979 wrote:Hangman_52 wrote:10 sacks going to happen today. Gabbert is so much worse than Kaepernick
How is that on Gabbert? He had NO time to step up in the pocket today, NONE. 9 sacks. The OL was atrocious...Ellington dropped an easy pass, he's proved worthless this season...The defense couldnt stop the run, pressure, committed stupid penalties. All in all Gabbert still finished 18/28 194 yards 1TD and a 96.4 rating. I wish people would get off his back.
The stat line is completely misleading for Gabbert. The offense didn't get over 100 yards until midway for the 4th quarter and the game was well out of hand and the Browns D was barely trying at that point.
In this game at least he wasn't any better than Kap and all and all he's just a marginal upgrade over Kap.
You can't excuse Gabbert without excusing Kap either since they both played with the same lousy offensive line and you could argue Kap had it worse when it came to protection because he never really got to play behind the O line with Tiller in it.
Gabbert was bad, the coaching was horrible, and the offensive line was beyond putrid.
You hit the nail on the head. The offensive woes can be entirely placed on the crappiness of the offensive line. Can't run or pass protect and then we blame the qb. Last year Kaepernick had a crappy line and his play declined. This year the line is worse and his play was worse.
Tom Brady has lost and played like Kaepernick in the past 2 weeks due to a pour line. Throwing in the dirt, inaccurately, interceptions, and then getting drops. Line play makes or breaks a qb. Right now the 49ers line is killing the qbs. If we draft a qb or use a current qb the first priority is then getting some protection for them.
