Is there anything out there to corroborate Tim K.'s delusions on the Gase story, or is it just more unsubstantiated, click-bait bullshit like 99% of Kawakami's articles? Kawakami articles always just feed into the anger and frustration of 49er fans by telling them what they want to hear and blaming the same people as the fans do in order to sell clicks/newspapers. He has always been a bit of a Niner hater and is more of a Raider fan. So, anything he writes I take it with a grain of salt.
I'm sure as hell not going to defend York (by all accounts, he's a silver-spoon fed narcissist that only cares about money), but on the other hand, how long are people going to keep supporting Kaepernick? Going back two years ago, even though SF made it to the conference game with Seattle, Kaepernick has been regressing. Two years ago, statistically, he was not making big passing gains. He averaged approximately 199.8 yards/game. There were more telling stats from two years ago about the offense, but since the team made it to the conference championship, management thought it was time to give him the "big" contract. Plus, everyone bought into the fact that Kaepernick did not have a "good enough" supporting cast, and that he played while injured. Fast forward to last year and it was more of the same, lackluster play and no playoffs. Is anyone now going to say that the last two years were not indicative of how he is as a QB? An NFL QB has to be good enough to win 3 - 4 games by himself. Sunday's game was winnable even by a middle of the road QB.
As far as "scapegoating" Kaepernick, many great QBs played with less than ideal coaching, bad offensive lines, poor receivers and still performed well. Look at Aaron Rodgers for less than stellar offensive lines and coaching. Look at Tom Brady for scrub receivers. No excuses. Kaepernick has been in the NFL too long to not show improvement. Now, a poor offensive line, bad coaching, and poor management can definitely combine for a perfect storm, no doubt about it. I am not arguing that. What I
amarguing is that everybody knows the team got worse and was going to get worse (it's just the nature of FA and the NFL). It is up to
Kaepernickto get better and at least perform well enough to not be on a downward trajectory. He should have developed the skills on his own by now to at least stop his personal downward slide of ability, regardless of coaching and personnel changes.
The whole fact of the matter is that the NFL caught up to Kaepernick. In response, Colin Kaepernick could have developed his skills. Supposedly, he tried in the off season while working with Kurt Warner. It does not look like it has worked.
