Jim Harbaugh: "Colin Kaepernick is our starter this week" - Page 6 - New England Patriots Forums

robertweathers · 11-29-2012, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by ThatllMoveTheChains!!!

Looking at Smith's contract this decision definitely makes sense from a business standpoint. However I have some very real doubts about how much sense this makes on the football side of things. Maybe I'm forgetting some teams, but I'm having a hard time remembering the last team to make some real noise in the POs after swapping QBs down the stretch.

There aren't many thats for sure. Maybe when Trent Dilfer took over for Tony Banks in 2000...

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Originally Posted by ThatllMoveTheChains!!!

I understand the Brady/Bledsoe comparisons, but there are some pretty big differences: BB stuck with the guy who had been the starter for most of the season, Brady had adequate time to prove himself, and the Pats were going from the big armed play maker to the game manager. Kaepernick might very well be the future of that franchise; I just don't buy that changing QBs week 11 is a key to PO success.

I don't want to split hairs but at the end of the day both QB moves were made part of of necessity (injury) and sustained because the play of the new QB made the team better (in their own way...assuming CK actually makes the the team better).

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Originally Posted by ThatllMoveTheChains!!!

All of this is clearly conjecture since no one really knows what's the motivating force in all of this. My gut has just been telling me this is more of a Rex Ryan standing by his guy move than a BB I'm going to field the best team I possibly can under the cap move. It could also be a business move or more realistically some mixture of motivations. The only thing I know for sure is I'll be shocked if they win a PO game with Kaepernick at the helm.

Perhaps but two things are irrefutable.. Harbaugh wants the QB of the SF 49ers to be CK and not Smith and since March the 49ers have not been 100%- all in with Smith being their franchise QB.