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No one thought kaepernick played well in 2016. He didn’t throw ints (he did fumble though) using a td/int ratio to imply few ints equals good play otherwise is disingenuous. He passed for less than 200 ypg, his team scored less than 19 ppg but scored over 22 ppg with Blaine gabbert at Qb
He completed 59% of his passes.
His offense scored 22 td in his 11 starts.
Nothing he did (other than not throwing ints along the way to not having any passing offense) was good.
I can't abide Kaepernick's fraud shtick but why is it people that want to blast him struggle with presenting him in a fair light and letting him and his 50¢ head be damned for who he is rather than trying to bury him with cherry picked bs or outright misrepresentation? Of course the team scored more points with Carlos Hyde, Vance McDonald and Torrey Smith healthy and available early in the season when Gabbert was starting. Gabbert had fewer ypg (154), a lower completion % (56.88), lower Y/A, a QB rating 22.3 points lower and a horrifically worse td/int rate of 5/6 running the same offense with better players. The truth is Kaepernick did more individually with what the team gave them both to work with than Gabbert did. That doesn't necessarily make him a 'good' QB but it sure makes him a better one than Gabbert. The truth is 2016 Kaepernick was more or less Tyrod Taylor and that by itself is more than 'good' enough to have at least a backup job in today's NFL, not with every team but certainly with some. The fact is his 2016 performance doesn't exist by itself, nothing happens in a vacuum and with the fan backlash attached to Kaepernick and his own inflated idea of his value the juice simply isn't worth the squeeze. Kaepernick's fraud ass dug the hole he is in and it's fair to ask why any owner should put his team in the crosshairs and face a potentially alienated fan base and the attendant revenue loss for a borderline starter. Other than defending your own BS why is it so damn hard to recognize an obvious business decision and just call it what it is instead of trotting out silly crap?
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