The NFL Thread 2012: Baltimore Ravens win Super Bowl XLVII

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RolStoppable said:

amp316 said:

If the 49ers don't at least reach the Super Bowl I would have to say that he is doing the wrong thing since Smith took them to the NFC Championship game and almost won it last year. 

I thought it was the 49ers defense and the kicker that did most of the work and Smith just so happened to play on the same team. I don't consider him a better QB than Cutler, for example. And the fact that Akers had to kick so many FGs points to an inefficient (redzone) offense.

This doesn't mean that Kaepernick will be better (we need more than a few games to judge him properly), but it is already known that Smith isn't a particularly good QB.

Hey, I'm not going to lie and say that I'm a big Alex Smith fan because I'm not.  But he has gone from number one overall pick that was a huge bust and was benched repeatedly to a guy that barely won the starting job last year.  He has improved steadily over the last two seasons and statistically this was by far his best.  It just seems like to me that he worked his tail off to get to where he was in order to have the rug completely pulled out from under him.  I'd understand the move if Smith was playing mediocre or even average, but he was actually was doing some positive things and not just staying out of the way like last year.  

And like you said, what happens when people get a scouting report on Kaepernick and tailor their defenses to stop him?  Do you expect him to still excel?