We are being overrun by these trolls. This is unbearable. Only D.C. and Media is safe now.

My two concerns with him when he took over were that he wasn't as good at the line of scrimmage as Alex, he did get better as the season went on, but that will prolly be the one area at least for a year or so that Alex Smith will be ahead of him, and two his touch throws.

That's what I will be looking for this year if he is going to take that next step....

Pretty sure he shredded the Pats in New England for 4 TD passes.

... and I thin he will. I am expecting more turnovers for sure (small hands/fumbles and lasers that he thinks will slice through but don't), but he and his running will create that backyard balling NFL explosion that this generation of kiddies cream themselves over. Will he be clutch when it most counts? eh.. maybe.

29th ranked pass defense in the league? well.. bravo, Kaep!

yeah bro, that's a pretty bad example. Considering the next week he played against a great defense and looked horrible while getting Manningham knocked out for the season, and Davis knocked out for the game.

I know that the schedule did us no favors, and that played a part, but that too is the difference in defenses.

Uh...what?

I said I'd have liked to have seen Smith try to make a throw here.

But just like I said in the Bray post - any time a QB is trying to throw off his back leg, it's an extremely difficult throw and the decision-making has to be judged accordingly.

And as to the respective LBs - at the moment McCluster made his cut (which was the discussion I was having with the grownup in the room), 50 was driving forward and in front of the route of the crossing WR; he was two strides to impact. Shit, he's looking right at McCluster as McCluster starts his break. If the LB drives on the ball, he probably bats it away. If he drives on McCluster, he absolutely destroys him. Do you deny for a second that 50 would've absolutely butt-****ed McCluster there had McCluster been the #1 option and the ball released at the top of the drop?

In the Bray clip, the LBs momentum had taken him the other direction because he followed the first guy out of the backfield, IIRC. He was a full 5 yards behind Draughn and even with him, not 1 yard behind him and facing him.

The two aren't even remotely comparable situations and your point is ancillary at best.

As to credibility - sweetheart, you're allowing Goatse to be your pied piper. I'll worry about your barometer of my credibility when you follow someone that actually has some.

Aturnis, just a quick primer on 'credibility'.

It's your position that McCluster's situation w/r/t #50 at the moment Smith reaches the top of his drop in this clip:

http://uranus.ckt.net/~gochiefs/wtfalex.gif

Is remotely comparable to Draughn's situation w/r/t #53 at the moment Draught turns for the ball in this clip:

http://uranus.ckt.net/~gochiefs/fit.gif

Really? That's the argument you want to have when discussing one's credibility? That the play where a guy is literally staring at someone running right towards him is similar to the one where he's picking up a 2nd player that's in front of him with the far side of the field to work with.

I'd suggest you work on your spatial awareness a bit there, champ.

Bray treats check downs as sacrilege.

First you said he can't read a defense.

Then I give you an example and you say they weren't good enough.

Seattle beat everybody at home last year. I had that as an L on the schedule with Alex at the start of the year, let alone Kaep.

Again look at where the bar is now.

We've gone from "He can't read a defense" to "He didn't beat the Seahawks and Pats on the road in back-to-back weeks in his first handful of starts."

Vernon got himself knocked out. There was absolutely no reason to jump for that ball. It was a bad game. He played badly.

I don't think he was exposed in any way though.

Seriously, keep engaging the trolls and you'll end up amongst them. It's easy to just block about 3/4 of the Niners fans on here because all they want to do is pimp Kaepernick and talk about some other message board. I don't give a **** about 9ers boards and fully recognize that Keapernick is a better QB to have then Smith. Moving on.

I've tried to leave a couple of you off the list because you seem to be actively engaged in football discussion. You keep doing this shit and you'll force myself (and others) to engage in a scorched earth policy with you damn 49er fans.

Seriously - most of you guys suck. Badly.

WAIT JUST A GOSH DARN MINUTE NOW. I hope you NEVER referenced AS's performance against the Saints because I know for a freaking fact that defense had the worst statistical year in NFL history. So YOU BETTER SHUT YOUR SHIZ NOW.

Fair enough. Done and done.

Fine by me. Kaepernick is just really crazy good.

Better? :)

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lol @ you

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