As we play the latest version of quarterback roulette. This was kind of how last year went as the front office bad-mouthed and whispered down the ability of Colin Kaepernick amid a team that lost all cohesion in the coaching staff and players.
The savior was of course the guy who is sucking now. Blaine Gabbert. A guy who has plenty of time and little to show for it. Kaepernick’s detractors have gone awful quiet as Gabbert has missed wide open guys, thrown ill-advised picks, and skipped passes on his way to a 1-4 record. All the while getting better than average protection.
With Kaepernick’s restructuring, the team is suddenly talking about letting him play. This after stating for the past 2 months that Kappy isn’t ready. Really. Frankly i don’t give a shit who plays, as long as it isn’t Gabbert. He has lived up to his 9-33 record.
And the Bills? God only knows. They fire Roman, and their defense plays better. The Von Ryan Express always has the possibility of becoming a train wreck in its own right. Huzzah! Kappy is playing for his NFL life at this point.
Hey, Badford is suddenly the hottest guy in the league. It could happen.
Forty Niners Forever 
Too bad we can’t get Jed to admit he’s a crappy owner. Nepotism in sports is a curse. It will take years for the Niners to recover. We can always hope for Mommie Dearest to recall him to Youngstown.
No, Winder, it makes you a realist. Try posting those in the play pen and you will be labeled a racist.
chuck- One good thing about this year is no one really thought we were gonna do much anyway. If all this crap helps us to get rid of the dead weight on the team and FO then bring it on. Jed will have to do something pretty soon.
This in from the WebZone where it was copied from ? So I can’t give credit where credit is due.
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To put this latest stage of Colin Kaepernick’s NFL career in context with his current claim to fame: The 49ers’ chickens have come home to roost. (Hat tip to Malcolm X.)
After everything chief executive Jed York and general manager Trent Baalke have done the past three years to unravel Kaepernick’s status with the 49ers, the quarterback is still standing, right back where he was before.
It seemed unfathomable a year ago that Kaepernick would still be on the roster today. Yet here he is, the starter again, even though it’s amid a pile of rubble of York’s and Baalke’s creation. Karma is as cruel as the 49ers’ 1-4 record, and just as real.
As admirable as it is that York has had Kaepernick’s back while he makes his widely unpopular protest stance, for football purposes it’s a minor miracle that Kaepernick has survived all the stabs management had delivered to his back.
He may not be capable of taking the 49ers back to the Super Bowl — with that roster, who is? — but he still got his job back, he appears to have his health back, and he’s proven that he’s got more game, and more credibility, than many gave him credit for.
Be certain of one thing: the 49ers brought this on themselves. Their own actions since their last playoff trip in 2013 brought them to where they are now: stumbling around in the NFL’s basement, promoting Kaepernick out of desperation, admitting their failure in parading Blaine Gabbert as a legitimate starter and inspiration reclamation project.
York and Baalke are the ones who engaged in the power struggle with then-coach Jim Harbaugh and, eventually, nudged him out of the door at least as much as Harbaugh sought to leave. They undermined him almost shamelessly. Kaepernick, Harbaugh’s own quarterbacking project, became the collateral damage.
There’s zero reason to believe that York and Baalke meant for Kaepernick to get caught in the original crossfire, but it was inevitable, and it made a mess of a talented young player’s future. And all the shenanigans that went on concerning Kaepernick afterwards, that was all avoidable and all lands in management’s lap.
The smears on Kaepernick’s character, professionalism and locker-room comportment were inexcusable. The way his injuries ended up cutting last season short is still shady; it took a disturbingly long time for the bad shoulder he was playing with to become public knowledge, and the 49ers put out a foolish, easily-discredited excuse to hide whatever they were hiding.
Even the contract extension he got was deceptively team-friendly; if not for his surgery, who doesn’t believe he wouldn’t have been long gone from Santa Clara already?
The arrogance of promoting Jim Tomsula and picking an offensive staff that was no help to Kaepernick, helped no one. The elevation of Gabbert as someone to sell the public as a smart alternative was insulting.
It was as if they were writing a textbook on how to derail a young quarterback’s progress.
The public, to their detriment, ate it up. It ended up feeding an incredibly demeaning and deflective plot line to Kaepernick’s detractors during his national anthem protests: he’s a scrub, he’s about to get cut, his career is all but finished, he’s just doing that to draw attention to himself because he has nothing else left. Hey, why listen to him, he’s the guy who couldn’t beat out Blaine Gabbert.
Those detractors don’t have that crutch left. Kaepernick does have something left.
He has his job back, with the team that tried so hard to make him feel as if he didn’t deserve it.
The 49ers have the quarterback back who led them to glory they couldn’t, or wouldn’t, sustain. And right now, that’s all they have.
Yeah, nice piece there, RTF. And it is something I’ve said all along. Kaepernick has been treated just like Harbaugh was, so I don’t get the fans who bemoan poor St Jim while excoriating Kaepernick. They went through the same whisper campaign and disinformation stream from the front office, and then the smear campaign when things went south. Colin signed the team friendly deal to ensure the team would be kept intact. Well, things didn’t quite work out that way due to Jed and Trent, and they turned and scapegoated Kaepernick even though they hired Jimmy bag-of-donuts, and an inept coaching staff. Now the team is back where they were before Harbaugh got here.
In the shitter and grasping at straws. The buck stops and starts with Jed and Trent, and their fucking mouthpiece Trent Dildo running point with the media.
Trent has been wearing his teflon suit as he blows through coaches and players and wastes draft picks up the wazoo but the jig is up. He’s on the clock, and I wonder what the fuck Jed does if this season goes swirling down the toilet. It’s looking that way, although the team seems to be having a little bit more success than last year despite the same record. One thing is fio sure, it would be a weird and twisted road to see Kappy and Kelly here next year. I seriously doubt it.
I’ve got a neat one on Baalke from the WZ; let me see if I can find it.
Nah, I’m not going to waste anymore time looking because the post I remember is not on the massive Baalke thread, but rather on some small innocent looking thread. It just listed Baalke’s draft picks by year and how many Pro Bowlers we’ve gotten out of it. Well written and didn’t make Baalke look good. Ach so, if I remember what thread and can find it I’ll repost it.
I hope that Ram win is not the only win this season. That would really be a disaster! You figure even a blind HC can win a couple of games. Kelly may have to head back to college to escape Baalke and Jed and this huge mess in Santa Clara. OUCH!
What’s WZ?
http://www.49erswebzone.com/forum/niners/
Ahhhh.
Yeah, WZ can have some incredible stuff. It can also be mired in hundreds of pages, years long flame wars (which I confess can be entertaining at times).
Wonder how San Diego will find a way to blow this game?
SD giving it away. Unbelievable.
SD is pathetic. Play 3-3/4 quarters and then turtle up and play prevent offense and defense.
Then they forget how to tackle. Saved by the flag.
Da Raiders are alone in 1st place in the AFC West. The Niners are alone in last place in the NFC West. How three years can change everything.
Yeah, Reundead Al finally passed, and the Niners still have Jed.
Here ya go, Chuck. Not sure if this is the one I saw, but it’s plenty good enough:
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At the foundation of the broken home that Baalke built are his failures to consistently draft impactful players. Successful teams are built through the draft and his failures to acquire impactful talent are now becoming impossible to ignore. …
Baalke’s unwillingness to upgrade at quarterback, receiver, inside linebacker and pass rusher based on last season’s 5-11 finish is a pretty egregious oversight.
Baalke doesn’t have a draft class to hang his hat on. Excluding 2010, which is clouded by the transition from McCloughan.
Baalke’s 61 draft picks since 2011 have amounted to just two Pro Bowls and one All-Pro nomination.
Baalke also stubbornly drafted players with falling stock due to torn ACLs. Despite improving medical procedures and rehab, it’s challenging for a player to return to football after tearing any ligament in the knee, let alone adapt to the challenges of the NFL and become a valuable member of the team.
Baalke has drafted seven players with torn ACLs since 2013. Carradine was selected in the second-round, Will Redmond and Brandon Thomas in the third, DeAndre Smelter and Marcus Lattmore in the fourth, Keith Reaser in the fifth and Trey Millard in the seventh.
Only Carradine and Reaser are on the roster, while Redmond is on injured reserve.
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And then there’s this,
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McCloughan was with Seattle from 2010-2013. Look how their drafts have panned out:
2010: Earl Thomas, Kam Chancellor
2011: K.J. Wright, Richard freaking Sherman, Doug Baldwin (UFA)
2012: Bruce Irvin, Bobby Wagner, Russell Wilson
2013: Christine Michael, Luke Willson
If you want to not include the 2013 guys, fine, but that’s still 8 All-Pro- caliber players in 3 years. Half of one of the NFL’s top defenses and their franchise QB and top WR…
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Yeah, Scotty’s track record is pretty well documented. Washington is on the rise now.
New thread is up.
FWIW, I believe in drafting from the lines outward. To that end, I would not have minded spending all of our picks this year on OL/DL. QB and WR would have been a waste with what we had last year on OL.
Ya gotta draft a QB just to groom, they usually don’t start right away anyway. So we go to another year just to draft one next year who won’t start.