Quote:Because that's exactly the situation the 49ers are in. Kap isn't the guy so A) You don't have to keep him B) Good enough to win a few games while you wait to pick a rookie or have while he sits.


Nah he really wasn't putrid. Just had no OLine/running game.


Blake's a grown man. He knows what his mechanics should be but he didn't put in the work to get them there. To come into a critical season throwing the football that bad shows a lack of professionalism on his part.


We might want to continue this in the Bortles thread.

So you'd rather go to a team that has a high pick in a draft that most scouts believe is VERY poor for Qb's than go to a team where a QB had an impressive 2nd  season (just last year) while likely being brought down in some ways due to one of the worst coaches in the history of the NFL? Someone who still has potential to be a franchise guy? I seriously don't get that argument at all. In Jacksonville, you have a chance with a guy that COULD be a franchise QB. In SF, you have a putrid QB situation and are going into a draft with not many high quality candidates to pick.

 

Dude, you pretty much just explained Bortles situation. Parnell up until wk 13 was a joke, we had 6 different LG's, and Beachum/Cann had ups and downs as one was coming off major knee surgery at 300+ pounds. Our running game was bottom 6-7 in the NFL. The last two weeks bumped us up quite a bit, and guess what? Bortles had his best two games of the season.

 

That's not how mechanics work...at all. When you throw a certain way your whole life, you can't just teach yourself how to throw and keep it consistent. You need coaching and to constantly work on it. That's what he did prior to 2015, and he had a very solid year. Last year, he worked on it, but not enough and with his results in 2015 he likely thought they were fixed. Unfortunately, our coaching staff in place obviously have jack [BAD WORD REMOVED] when it comes to knowledge of teaching mechanics as they didn't both to improve them. Blake had to bring in his own guy from Cali DURING the season to work on it. If that doesn't say something IDK what to say. It has nothing with a lack of "professionalism". He's a young guy that fixed his problems with mechanics in year two and thought he didn't need to focus on them as much prior to year 3. Was the wrong decision and he paid for it.

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