Bob Costas' Halfway House/Kaepernick interview

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(07-24-2017, 03:49 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Tebow won a postseason game, too.

Kaepernick has played in 21 games/19 starts since Harbaugh stopped being his coach.
59.1% completion
3856 yards (183.6 yards/game)
22 TD/9 INT
6.7 yards/attempt

That's not starting QB numbers, and nobody is going to bring in a backup QB who will be a distraction.

Honestly, I see Kaepernick as just another Mark Sanchez. Both came in to loaded teams that were winning with or without them, both had postseason success due to those teams early in their career (Sanchez went to TWO AFC title games). Both were hyped up to be big time franchise QBs (The Sanchize). Both failed at that and teams realized they can't carry a team. (Sanchez had an 88.4 QB Rating in Philly)

The only difference is at that point Sanchez stayed fairly quiet and started getting jobs as a backup, while Kaepernick went loud and now can't get a backup job.

Kaepernick has won 4 post season games, made it to the Super Bowl, and was literally one play away from winning one.

4 of Kaepernicks 5 years as a starter, he's had a QB rating of 86 or higher. 3 of those seasons he had a QB rating of 90 or higher.

In all 4 years as a starter in New York, Mark Sanchez never had a QB rating above 78.2. And he had below 70 QB ratings two times.

Ummm, what? Sanchez never won them any games lol.
Kaepernick has actually taken over games. Like he did in his first ever playoff game.
His 2nd playoff game, they were down 14-24 by half-time. Led them to a 4th quarter comeback.
He's had two 4th quarter comebacks/game winning drives in the playoffs.

Also, anyone can tell you that Kaepernick offered so much more than Sanchez.

How did Kaepernick fail at that exactly? Based off of 2 years? Players are going to have down years sometimes. It happens.

Look at Dalton with his 19:17 TD to INT ratio in 2014. Or how last year he couldn't eclipse 20 TDs with a "loaded" offense.
Did he have low interceptions last year? Absolutely.
Guess who else did? Kaepernick.

Injuries? Sure.
But even with injuries, the Bengals offense had so much more than the 49ers offense.

The reason why Kaepernick isn't getting a shot is because of his stances. That's all there is to it.

Based on play alone, Kaepernick would have been given another shot in the NFL.