Writer: "Colin Kaepernick’s eagerness to improvise could ultimately be the Niners’ undoing"

[mozichrome]

in the NFC title game the quarterbacking ticket of Russell Wilson and Colin Kaepernick evokes a familiar but fascinating discussion that has heated up over the past two years: Can an NFL team enjoy sustained success with a run-oriented quarterback?

A quarterback like this is rare, but we’ve seen it before—most recently in Michael Vick in Atlanta. Like Kaepernick, Vick had a rocket arm but, being inconsistent in progressions reads, he relied heavily on his surreal running prowess. We never got to see if Vick’s style could truly thrive. Being 6-foot, 215 pounds and not knowing how to avoid or absorb hits, he couldn’t stay healthy enough to become a stable franchise quarterback. (And he went to prison at the height of his athletic prime.)

In five career playoff games, Kaepernick is 4-1 with 377 rushing yards and a 9.43 yards-per-carry average. There have been concerns about Kaepernick’s exposing himself to hits, but through 37 career games and 197 career runs, the 6-4, 230-pounder has had no significant injuries. For discussion’s sake, let’s say Kaepernick remains relatively the same player for the foreseeable future. (Which very well could happen.) That means he’d be a sensational athlete with unrefined mechanics (particularly footwork), but he’d still have good accuracy thanks to an innate sense for ball location (something Vick didn’t have). It also means Kaepernick would be a limited field-reader, often needing play structures with defined reads and no more than two progressions per dropback.
Can this work?

If a coach doesn’t know where his quarterback will go on a given play, how does the coach create plays that form a cohesive game plan? And how do the other 10 guys on offense practice and perfect the nuances of their craft? Randomization can’t be mastered.

 

[AlbertPullhoez]

at this article

Cant believe these writers actually get paid to put this shyt out and SMH at him bringing up Vick when he was in Atlanta. Vick wishes he had the level of recievers in ATL that Colin has now in San Fran

 

[Heelmatic]

So it was a bad QB play because he ran for 42 yards instead of hitting one of his TE's for what probably would've been about a 20 yard gain? lol ok

 

[GzUp]

Seems like they just want to pick on Colin.

 

[Panther]

They just gonna find ways to hate on Kaep, dude got more playoff wins than Matt ryan.

This was taken from that Kaep/Cam thread but it sums up my thought pretty well

this is the second year in a row that kaep has elevated his game in the playoffs and he doesn't get enough credit for that imo

 

[gho3st]

any good point he was making became once he inserted vick into the conversation.

 

[ScottyG]

Mcdonald would have been a horrible read, and the 20 yard pass to Vernon would have been decent, but kaep saw a lane and took it, if Russell Wilson or Andrew luck had done this it would have been a "Great display of imporivising and Intangibles"

 

[ScottyG]

So far his "impatience" has paid off for him and the Niners offense, just let a real nikka be

 

[Absolut]

Mcdonald would have been a horrible read,

hes wide the fukk open, and has blockers in place down the sideline. whats wrong with that read?

 

[yseJ]

kaeps inconsistency on reads and not seeing open receivers sometimes and locking onto primary guy often is a concern (at least to me).

with that said, the vick comparison is awful. and its not 'eagerness to improvise' really, its basically taking off running after he sees no outlets. its not 'improvisation'.

 

[mozichrome]

any good point he was making became once he inserted vick into the conversation.

he said nothing bad about Vick. just we didnt get to see his full potential in his prime

 

[feelosofer]

hes wide the fukk open, and has blockers in place down the sideline. whats wrong with that read?

McDonald has stone hands, it would be better to pass to a contested Davis than a wide open McDonald. McDonald has only caught 17 percent of passes coming his way.

 

[Maschine_Man]

It's the reason Seattle is gonna win this game

 

[Brady-Carter]

Here is the link to the full article..

http://mmqb.si.com/2014/01/15/colin-kaepernick-nfc-championship-game-san-francisco-49ers/

 

[mozichrome]

kaeps inconsistency on reads and not seeing open receivers sometimes and locking onto primary guy often is a concern (at least to me).

with that said, the vick comparison is awful. and its not 'eagerness to improvise' really, its basically taking off running after he sees no outlets. its not 'improvisation'.

idk if you looked at the other pics on the site, but the writer made that point with some pics from super bowl. if you did, my bad