The good folks at TheShadowLeague.com asked me to contribute to their Cover 3 article this week.
1. A home loss to the Colts have got some SF fans talking real reckless about Colin Kaepernick. Considering their WR situation, what are their options in elevating their passing game?
Richard Boadu: Good players make plays, which make them look good. Great players make plays AND they make everyone else around them better. Nothing is given to you in the NFL and no one is going to feel sorry for Colin Kaepernick. Tom Brady is 3-0 and he’s throwing to unknowns right now. If Colin wants to be elite, he’s got to figure out how to work with what he’s got.
Brandon Scott: Thing is, the problem right now is Kaepernick’s inaccuracy, and as we’ve indicated, teams know the only way for Kaepernick to beat them right now is with his legs. Three games in, the Niners don’t have a receiver with more than 15 catches. The 49ers are out there looking like an FCS squad.
DJ Dunson: Even if he was out with Aldon Smith all night, there’s no excuse for a consecutive game of completing fewer than 50% of his attempts. He’s struggling throwing downfield with Vernon Davis missing time over the last two weeks. It may be time to take a page out of the dusty, old dink and dunk playbook they abandoned when Alex Smith went by the wayside. On that same note, the Niner’s offense has inexplicably begun directing the offense away from Frank Gore, like the RedZone channel avoids commercials.
Checkout the rest of Cover 3 at TheShdadowLeague.com.