Colin Kaepernick Thread

Wonder if they are going to limit Kaep's reps from now on....

Originally posted by NCommand:

Originally posted by mayo49:
Nick Wagoner ESPN Staff Writer
49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick did not practice on Thursday. Team spokesman says it was a "planned rest day" for Kaepernick. Blaine Gabbert took all of the reps with the first team offense.

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The Real American Hero doesn't need a planned rest day!

ok, that was pretty funny, lol

SoSad my dude kap falling apart at such a young age.

Lol, sheesh you guys are like TMZ sports hyenas... Have fun for a 1-3 day speculation on what's been reported as a rest day.

Originally posted by iLLEST209ER:

Originally posted by NYniner85:
One game and it should have never happened because the Bears kicker f**ked it up twice! In fact other than on run and throw he had a pretty s**tty game. I'll add smith was wide f**king open lol.

He then followed it up with getting out played by Manziel and throwing 3 INTs in Cin the next two weeks.

People get all tight in the pants off of two plays from Blaine lol. We've seen Kap take over games along with coming back to win it more than once.

I saw wayyy too many check downs,under throws, and lack of pushing the ball down field (especially on 3rd downs) to say he's got play making ability...I will also say I can't put stock into our players play based off last season (good or bad).

We will see I'll root for either, if we want to play just well enough to lose Blaine's the pick if we want a chance to actually make the playoffs Kap or bust...end of the day we should be looking for a new QB, so in the grand scheme maybe I want Blaine lol

#suckforwatson

I completely understand where you are coming from. I would actually prefer Kaep to return to something close to his previous form. Just saying that Gabbert isn't THAT bad lol.

No and if he rises to the top I'm all for it...but in reality he hasn't been very good either.

I don't buy this "rest day" story because the team has not been practicing every day, they have already had several days off.

Originally posted by GNS1310:

Grant Cohn ‏@grantcohn 5m5 minutes ago
Anyone who was at Kezar yesterday knows something was off with Kaepernick. He missed some throws by a lot.

Yep. He's hurt.

Cohn has zero credibility.

Originally posted by GNS1310:
Grant Cohn ‏@grantcohn 5m5 minutes ago
Anyone who was at Kezar yesterday knows something was off with Kaepernick. He missed some throws by a lot.

Yep. He's hurt.

Cohn back on the 9th

7. Colin Kaepernick's throwing shoulder. Spent the second teaching period lying on the ground while a trainer stretched his throwing shoulder. This lasted at least four minutes. At one point Chip Kelly walked over to see what was happening, and Kaepernick eventually jumped to his feet to show he was OK. But as practice went on, he kept shaking his right arm – it clearly bothered him. He threw mostly short passes the rest of the day.

http://49ers.pressdemocrat.com/49ers-training-camp-report-day-8-kaepernick-tweaks-throwing-shoulder/

Originally posted by TheWooLick:

Originally posted by GNS1310:
Grant Cohn ‏@grantcohn 5m5 minutes ago
Anyone who was at Kezar yesterday knows something was off with Kaepernick. He missed some throws by a lot.

Yep. He's hurt.

Cohn has zero credibility.

99.9% of the time, you're right!

Originally posted by susweel:
I don't buy this "rest day" story because the team has not been practicing every day, they have already had several days off.

I agree. Something's up. Throwing shoulder injuries are no bueno.

Originally posted by jonnydel:

Originally posted by NCommand:

Originally posted by mayo49:
Nick Wagoner ESPN Staff Writer
49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick did not practice on Thursday. Team spokesman says it was a "planned rest day" for Kaepernick. Blaine Gabbert took all of the reps with the first team offense.

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The Real American Hero doesn't need a planned rest day!

ok, that was pretty funny, lol

LOL. Superhero's don't get a day off. Ha

Originally posted by susweel:
I don't buy this "rest day" story because the team has not been practicing every day, they have already had several days off.

Wise man right here.

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Originally posted by jonnydel:
I'm not saying that Kap can't or wouldn't run the read option well. It's the amount of impact he would have running it compared to someone without the top flight speed - in Chip's NFL system. In College, there were times when Mariota would keep the ball or it was designed to keep him because he was such a far and above athlete over the guys trying to cover him, reads didn't really matter. In the NFL, DE's and LB's are so fast that, the QB has to make the correct read on the read-option, regardless of how fast CK is, he can't beat that defender if the guys is playing QB run...period. We've seen that the past 2 years.

What I'm saying is, the amount of times teams playing against Philly, with Vick, Foles and Bradford that they left the QB uncovered on a read-option was, maybe, 5% of the time - that included read-option and passing plays with read-option looks. Just because CK would be in there wouldn't mean there'd be more QB runs, because it's based off the defensive play, not the playcaller or QB. He's supposed to read the defense. If the defense was only willing to give that QB run so few times against the aforementioned QB's, now much less would they allow a guy like CK? Like I've said, we've already seen that the past 2 years.

My statement wasn't against CK's ability to run the read-option, but the defenses' willingness to allow the qb run on a read-option.

I don't even think he's made the wrong read when given the read option...in all he's been well at that in SF and college. It's the in the pocket progressions that have been his bugaboo IMO.

Facts are he's shown he is faster than those LBs and DEs when he breaks out on the read option. That does become a HUGE issue and also creates bigger lanes for the RB and helps the WRs as well. You don't think the defense would HAVE to game plan for Kap's runs vs say Blaine? IF they don't give Kap the option to run that means they will have better options when throwing the ball win win.

It does help if your QB can be a running threat in the read option it's not debatable and it's one of the reasons it's run if the defense tries to take it away it's a advantage to us in other areas. go look at 2012-2013 when we ran more read option concepts and the line was actually good.

Originally posted by Pinion:

Originally posted by susweel:

I don't buy this "rest day" story because the team has not been practicing every day, they have already had several days off.

I agree. Something's up. Throwing shoulder injuries are no bueno.

Kap going to milk the injury so that we have to keep him next year as well. Should just cut him to not have to deal with that scenario.