Originally posted by crabman82:just responding to the kaep stuff as i have yet to read your entire post. the stuff about drew brees first few years or any other qb in that category about 10-15 years ago, i just dont see how it applies to now. we have all these young qbs in years 2, 3, 4 and 5. thats who he needs to be compared to and when you get down to the bottom of it, its more specifically russell wilson cus of being in the same division. nobody cares about drew brees in 2002. kaepernick is flat out struggling and its tough to watch especially when they roll to commercials and you see him in a bunch of them. he put himself out there this offseason and if he slipped a bit there was going to be a backlash
This is true but RG3 is struggling too and realistically, Russell Wilson is not fairing much better than Kap is, statistically. The difference is that Wilson is better at running around in the pocket and it allows his guys time to get open. When he's been contained he has been pretty average.
Not to mention, a lot of these 2nd year QBs have come from pro-style offenses. Kap did not, and from the time he was drafted, people knew that would be an adjustment. The difference now is that he had success his first year so it made people impatient.
[ Edited by TheRatMan13 on Nov 18, 2013 at 2:51 PM ]