Merrith
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He just hasn't looked good in quite a while. Last year was a Chip Kelly aberration. This is a guy that still needs to use his wheels instead of his arm many times. There's just no place for him today. He reminds me of Vick and Vick still got a job when people thought he had value.
That's my main problem with this narrative. It's non-football people trying to force a football decision on a team when they aren't qualified to make that decision. It's the worst form of SJW socialist bullshit going on today. If Kaep was asking the right price, was in the right shape, did the right things, etc, he'd be under contract today. No one knows why he isn't and I put that responsibility on the player who wants a job, not the employer. Time for merit to get back in our job based discussions.
I think the SJW fear is overblown. Last year wasn't an aberration like he was on a team that was helping his numbers. His team was terrible. Worst defense in the league, terrible receivers. Also a lot of the narrative about what he can and can't do as a passer is based on old assumptions.
Colin Kaepernick is Better than Joe Flacco
http://presnapreads.com/2017/07/30/colin-kaepernick-is-better-than-joe-flacco/
Writer does seem to have a bit of a vendetta against Flacco it seems, although the main narrative I took is Ravens have forced Flacco to do too much on his own since his SB win. But the Kaep stuff is further down in the article (random Rivers mention in there too).
The depth of Kaepernick’s throws wasn’t the only reason he had a lower completion percentage last year. While Flacco lost a reception to receiver error once every 17 attempts, Kaepernick lost one once every 8.49 attempts. Nobody in the league lost completions on accurate passes because of receiver error as often as the San Francisco 49ers quarterback did.
Kaepernick is 29 years old, fully healthy and coming off his best season. He has shown development, growing from a quarterback with a narrow skill set who was reliant on his scheme into someone with a wider skill set who has now shown functional ability in multiple schemes. The criticisms of Kaepernick are outdated. He used to run out of clean pockets, stare down his first read and panic if he had to hold the ball in the pocket. That’s no longer who he is.
In 2016, Kaepernick showed off an ability to make subtle movements in the pocket while keeping his eyes up to diagnose coverages downfield. He showed off poise and precision with his movement in the pocket, he got off his first reads in a timely manner and kept his eyes up at all times. He developed an ability to throw from the left flat, something he never had as a rookie, and made better decisions both in terms of attacking coverages and picking his spots for when to scramble.
The cruel irony is Kaepernick was called a superstar when he wasn’t close to a superstar because of his team’s success. Now the same inability to see the context of his performances is allowing people to argue that he’s a bad quarterback. Allowing people to pit him against second-string and third-string players when he’s a superior player to many starting quarterbacks in this league.