One thing that is being left out here as well is that Kaepernick has a tremendous arm. In a draft with rocket arms like Newton, Locker, Gabbert, and Mallett, only Mallet threw the ball harder than Kaepernick. His accuracy and desire to stand in the pocket and deliver the strike are what have really set him apart from the others. He is an elite talent that is perhaps already a super star.

Let’s not forget Alex Smith won 6 of the first 8 games on the schedule this year. 3 out of the first four away from Candlestick. Including the season opener against the Packers at Lambeau.

Colin and Alex co-led this team to the Super Bowl. It’s Colin’s team to lead now. But he didn’t lead them to 6-2 in the first eight games. He led them to 5-2 in the last seven. He also led them to defeat the Packers in Candlestick. And the Falcons last Sunday.

Once this happens, we’ll see how the league manages to tap dance on the blurred line between QB safety and allowing defenses to play defense.
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Ha,ha, they would burn you on a screen all day long!

Read option football where the QB has the option to handoff, run, or throw isn’t new… not a chance… wake up people.

It’s like calling the west coast offense something that Bill Walsh came up with in San Francisco… please it was being run years and years before by Jerry Burns in Minnesota with Tarkenton and Foreman, and probably even before that. Even Walsh was running it in Cincinnati with Ken Anderson at QB.

The execution is good by Kaepernick and he’s built physically to take some punishment, but it’s not new. Even Bobby Douglas ran it when he was in Chicago… he just couldn’t throw it good enough to make it really work.

So the next time someone says they invented something back up the freaking salt truck… they are probably full of it.

At the end of they day though, a drop back and pass QB who can dissect defenses gets you further than a read-option/pistol style/running QB.

There are always gimmicks run when there is a shortage of QBs that can throw. Sure, SF is going to the SB, but it isnt because of the read optio/pistol/whatever you want to call it. They are there because they have great players. They have great players because they drafted in the top 10 for 7 or 8 years in a row. It is how the draft is set up to work.

Here is the problem with the option offense. There are a finite number of QBs who can run it effectively. There just happen to be 3 or 4 guys who can roll with it now. Cam Newton is in a simular offensive scheme, but they lose. Why? They dont have great players, thats why. How about Griffin? He can do it, but he might never play another game because he got hurt running the ball (not a designed run, I know, but the abuse these guys take adds up over time).

Anyway, it is ridiculous to think teams will move to this system. Any one of them would take a great passer as a franchise quarterback over a read option guy. They dont have that, so they use the option game because that is all they have. They also know they have a QB that will be out of football in 3 or 4 years because the option opens up some pass patterns. If all teams have to do is cover recievers, most of these guys are done because they arent accurate enough to throw into coverage. Not to mention these guys get hurt. Just ask Mike Vick or RGIII how the odds turn for injury running this system.

Once this happens, we’ll see how the league manages to tap dance on the blurred line between QB safety and allowing defenses to play defense.

But they lost some games, too, and NFL defenses are bigger, faster, and more physical than college. And if your QB gets hurt, it’s hard to immediately shift gears if the backup can’t play the same system.

This offseason will be the biggest test. It was all new and defenders were learning on the fly. Coaches can know study it for a full offseason.

That said I think it continues to work and this type of QB will be come the standard. Especially with the amount of protection they get.

Defenses around the league will have it under wraps real soon.

It might not be the only formation a team runs once defenses start getting the hang of it, but it gives you a whole set of alignments that you can force a defense to prepare for. And the more you can make a defense need to prepare for, the less prepared they will be in general.