Popeyejones
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JTB":yddj216x said:Popeyejones":yddj216x said:In Benoit's defense he's always been insanely low on Kaepernick, but that he's worse than half the backups in the league is ridiculous.
To convince me of Benoit's point, you'd have to convince me that Colin Kaepernick is considerably worse than the backup QBs who have actually been signed this off-season, which is just laughable.
People really want to argue he's worse than ALL OF Aaron Murray, David Fales, Kellen Moore, EJ Manuel, Matt McGloin, TJ Yates, Austin Davis, Chase Daniel, Blaine Gabbert, Josh Johnson, Geno Smith, Mark Sanchez, Case Keenum, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Matt Barkley, Landry Jones, Josh McCown, and Nick Foles?
Sorry, but at the end of the day you can take any measurement of quarterbacks you want and save for Nick Foles' one great year five years ago this is a list of 18 guys who have never even gotten close to sniffing Kaepernick's jock strap.
I'm fine with pointing out Kaepernick's flaws, but if you want to talk about his flaws as a player, you have to talk about the players who are being signed ahead of him. That he's somewhere worse than ALL OF these guys (let alone any of them) is simply laughable.
Only 5 of those guys were on Benoit's list and he clearly states that his evaluation is based on the ability to play from the pocket in a conventional offense. In addition, I'd point out that a lot of the guys that have signed are competing for a job and at the veteran minimum salary. We still don't know what Kaepernick is looking for contract wise.
There's two issues:
1) He just states an opinion and he doesn't support it. He easily could have pulled Kap's stats from in the pocket to support his argument, but didn't. I'm guessing he looked at them and left them out because they exposed how unsupported his argument is.
2) To know if it's an ability problem that's keeping Kaepernick from being signed, we don't need to look at backups that didn't move this season, we need to look at backup QBs that were signed over him this off-season. If it's ability you have to argue that he's so much significantly worse than the 17 guys I listed he's only worth one team who signed a backup QB this off-season even poking around. That's an argument that's just impossible to take seriously.
As for money, there were multiple reports that money was not the issue between Kaepernick and the Seahawks. Remember this is also an offseason in which the bears gave 15 APY to Mike Glennon, whose best year is worse than Kaepernick's worst year.