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Reno, Nevada is a Niners town. Even after an insanely troublesome offseason which featured coaching changes, stunning retirements, and the release of one of their best defensive players, the San Francisco 49ers are still drawing action in Reno for Monday’s Week 1 matchup with the Minnesota Vikings.
At least since the early 1980's the Niners have been a west coast favorite. They come to lay down their money on their team. Good for Reno, not so good for the Niner faithful last year and from the way it looks this year looks like it might be a train wreck. We could see the wheels starting to fall off the chuckwagon by mid-season last year.
I suspect part of the reason why Harbaugh decided to leave was because he realized that Kaepernick didn't have the cerebral capacity to be a successful long term NFL quarterback. For the first year and a half he was able to execute the strength of his game which is read and run and the first read was there more often than not. But once the book was out on him he was unable to adjust to their adjustment, which was to take away his first read. He has all the physical tools to perform well following the script. But if you take away the script, it seems he can't follow through on his progression, from first to second to third read.
Being a Niner fan going on fifty years, I hope I'm wrong. This season will be the crossroad for Kaepernick. Like many of the run option QB's we've seen in the last two decades they have early success but once they've been figured out or get injured they don't last.
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