Bay Area Writer: Kaepernick One-Read QB, Cam Actually Reads Defenses

[IGSaint]

Wonderlic Score 2011:

 

Cam Newton, Auburn - 21

 

Colin "King" Kaepernick, Nevada - 38  (Also he got accepted to Harvard, but declined)

 

 

 

 

Ryan Fitzpatrick scored a 48 on the wonderlic and he is horrible. Are you sure you want to brag about wonderlic scores?

[MichaelNewtonII]

Where does it say cam reads them? I just see it saying kap doesnt

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[fieryprophet]

Where does it say cam reads them? I just see it saying kap doesnt

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Where it talks about Cam going through his progressions. That's what reading a defense is.

[propagandamachine]

and Cam is working Magic with a nobody cast and tearing up the Joint. 

[IGSaint]

Where does it say cam reads them? I just see it saying kap doesnt

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Did you miss the entire point of the article?

[Mr. Scot]

My favorite part-

And Newton doesn’t need great receivers – he doesn’t have any. Kaepernick does. Kaepernick needs Michael Crabtree and Anquan Boldin and Vernon Davis, or else the other team can double-cover Kaepernick’s primary receiver, and then Kaepernick is out of options.

The same reason Alex Smith was able to take them to the NFCS.

 

 

Actually, I think these paragraphs are more telling...

 

Trent Dilfer, who played for Shula when Shula was the Buccaneers’ offensive coordinator from 1996 to 1999 and currently is an analyst for ESPN, recently told a Bay Area radio station there are no progressions in the 49ers’ passing game. “They’re calling a play for a defense, for a player and, if that play is called wrong, that second, third, fourth option isn’t going to get the ball very often. They don’t have the type of offensive structure and Colin isn’t the type of quarterback that there are five eligible receivers and anyone can get the ball.”

 

This style of passing offense allows coaches to do most of the thinking, and it makes quarterback, the most difficult position in sports, much easier to play: Just fire the ball to the primary receiver if he’s open and, if he’s covered, run for your life.

 

When the 49ers’ passing game is clicking and Kaepernick is hitting wide-open receiver after wide-open receiver, that means Greg Roman is guessing correctly. He’s calling plays designed to get one player open against the type of coverage he expects the opposing team to use on that play. When Roman guesses incorrectly, you don’t see Kaepernick reset his feet and find his second and third targets. There are no second and third targets. Those guys are decoys clearing space. When Roman guesses incorrectly, Kaepernick has to flip the ball to a running back in the flat, or scramble, or get sacked.

 

Shula’s passing game does not work that way.

 

The success of Shula’s passing game does not depend on Shula guessing right. It depends on his quarterback, Cam Newton, making good decisions. This is the essence of the “erto.”

 

“A good decision means (Newton) is getting the ball out there on time, his feet are set, he’s going to the right guy,” Shula told the Charlotte Observer. “When he’s making those good decisions, we’ve won games.”

 

“I don't think he's just throwing to one particular guy anymore based on the pre-set,” Panthers’ tight end Greg Olsen said about Newton to the New York Daily News. “He's letting the play kind of unfold the way it's designed and goes bang, bang, bang. It takes him to the right guy more times than not. That's when you're playing quarterback at a high level.”

 

You never hear Harbaugh talk about Kaepernick that way.

 

Ouch :unsure:

[propagandamachine]

Wow - This is a Masterpiece... love the writing : dude is rooting for us to take 9'ers apart. 

[pstall]

Domo Arigato....Mr.Roberto

[TheRumGone]

But but but.... The inability to read defenses is overblown!!!!

Seriously kap is a physical freak otherwise Smith would be the 49ers starting qb right now.

[JJT]

Declined Harvard to attend Nevada? Sounds pretty stupid to me (if it's even true).

 

II wouldn't want to be around Massholes, either.

 

[MaineManPanther]

Certainly gives you even more confidence going into this game. The question is wether our secondary is up to the task of not allowing the likes of Davis, Boldin and Crabtree to be open on the first or second read.

[Panthro]

Wonderlic Score 2011:

 

Cam Newton, Auburn - 21

 

Colin "King" Kaepernick, Nevada - 38  (Also he got accepted to Harvard, but declined)

 

 

 

 

I don't see Stephen hawking throwing screen passes or looking off safeties...bro

 

[Mr. Scot]

Colin "King" Kaepernick, Nevada - 38  (Also he got accepted to Harvard, but declined)

 

 

Not quite the full story...

 

Dartmouth, Harvard and Yale recruited him hard, but Kaepernick's dream was to play Division I football. San Jose State coaches dangled a scholarship, then disappeared. Oregon State expressed strong interest, then stopped calling. Tennessee told Colin, "You're the No. 1 player on our board," and invited him for a visit. A week before the trip, a Tennessee coach called to cancel the visit and rescind the scholarship offer. And that's how Kaepernick ended up at the University of Nevada.

 

Taking the wraps off Kaepernick

 

I have to wonder why so many schools gave him the stiffarm.

[KingKaepernick]

Fellas, it should be noted that this "Grant Cohn" character, is well known in San Francisco's "alternative lifestyles" community.  One anonymous source went as far as to say he had witnessed several different 49er facility managers flouting his unwarranted advances.  

 

As such, I and many 49er fans are convinced his articles/blogs are his reprisal towards our franchise.  

 

One should note, he favors the Panthers this weekend and coincidentally his "needs" have always been regarded as "resilient".