Jack Harbaugh Claims Jim Said Kaepernick Was Best Player In 2011 Draft Back Then

[footballisasport]

Remember Collin is from the QB class of 2011. That class has given us, Andy Dalton, Christian Ponder, Jake Locker, if he can stay well, and Cam Newton. That's 5 QBs who have set records or taken their teams to the play offs in their young rookie years.

Collin is in the SB and Cam, not RG or Luck, is who they are always putting him up against. IMO, Collin is a more Urban version of Cam. Consider yourselves lucky that Cam is the measuring stick all the other QBs are put up against. The only difference between Colin and Cam is the team they play for. They are both exceptionally talented young man from a class of exceptional QBs.

[tiger7_88]

So Daddy Harbaugh claims Jim said Kaep was the best player in the 2011 draft?

Really weird drafting Aldon Smith ahead of him then and rolling the dice that the guy you think is "the best player in the draft" may not be there when you pick again in the 2nd round.

[stirs]

they are in the super bowl

we have been out of the playoffs since early November

they can say what they want

[Herbert The Love Bug]

Todd McShay said Blaine Gabbert was the best player in the 2011 draft. So yeah, opinions are stupid and don't mean diddly squat

[Lumps]

they are in the super bowl

we have been out of the playoffs since 2008

they can say what they want

this, but I fixed it for you

[panthers55]

San Francisco was 5-2 with Alex Smith. With Kapernick they were 6-2-1. Truth is that Alex Smith was as responsible for them getting to the Superbowl as Kapernick this year. Funny how he gets no credit at all.

[TheGreatestOfAllTimeCam]

Kaepernick is top 5 out of that draft. His arm will mean he is good for a while. The idiots that think this is all pistol are funny

[panthers55]

Kaepernick is top 5 out of that draft. His arm will mean he is good for a while. The idiots that think this is all pistol are funny

Actually the system makes him better than he is. This is the same system that made Alex Smith look great as well. Don't get me wrong he played very well but lets wait to see how teams game plan for him next year like they did for Newton this year. In fact I want to see how he does against Baltimore once they have prepared for him for only 2 weeks. And wait until Smith goes back to sucking next year like Cassel did while he left NE for KC.

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

Actually the system makes him better than he is. This is the same system that made Alex Smith look great as well. Don't get me wrong he played very well but lets wait to see how teams game plan for him next year like they did for Newton this year. In fact I want to see how he does against Baltimore once they have prepared for him for only 2 weeks. And wait until Smith goes back to sucking next year like Cassel did while he left NE for KC.

yeah some QB hungry team is going to get fleeced by the 49ers to get smith and get a rude awakening kolb/cassel style. it's pretty much a foregone conclusion at this point.

[frash.exe]

Actually the system makes him better than he is. This is the same system that made Alex Smith look great as well. Don't get me wrong he played very well but lets wait to see how teams game plan for him next year like they did for Newton this year. In fact I want to see how he does against Baltimore once they have prepared for him for only 2 weeks. And wait until Smith goes back to sucking next year like Cassel did while he left NE for KC.

last year the 49ers played the Ravens with Alex Smith starting at QB and got shut down 16-6. Obviously the stakes are higher this go around, but I don't think you're doing justice to Colin's superior talent to say they're just as good as each other. It's going to be harder for the Ravens to sack Kaepernick 9 times like they did Smith, and so long as he can evade that rush and extend the play, the longer it's going to take for them to subdue the 49ers offense. That is unless Kaepernick just starts throwing picks everywhere and looks lost trying to find an open man, which I think is unlikely.

I still think Cam would look better than both of them if you throw him in that niners team, but unless either a: the Panthers' administration gets their act together quickly or b: Cam leaves this black hole called charlotte and moves to a franchise that knows how to build a football team, we might never see this materialize. But if it happens I'm totally throwing it in the face of everybody that spent years haranguing Cam for stupid bullshit like 1000 times over.

[panthers55]

last year the 49ers played the Ravens with Alex Smith starting at QB and got shut down 16-6. Obviously the stakes are higher this go around, but I don't think you're doing justice to Colin's superior talent to say they're just as good as each other. It's going to be harder for the Ravens to sack Kaepernick 9 times like they did Smith, and so long as he can evade that rush and extend the play, the longer it's going to take for them to subdue the 49ers offense. That is unless Kaepernick just starts throwing picks everywhere and looks lost trying to find an open man, which I think is unlikely.

I still think Cam would look better than both of them if you throw him in that niners team, but unless either a: the Panthers' administration gets their act together quickly or b: Cam leaves this black hole called charlotte and moves to a franchise that knows how to build a football team, we might never see this materialize. But if it happens I'm totally throwing it in the face of everybody that spent years haranguing Cam for stupid bullshit like 1000 times over.

I don't think Kaepernick is anything like Smith in terms of skills set. I simply said the system they run makes quarterbacks look better than they might be in another system. That is a complement to Harbaugh that he has a quarterback friendly system. But I do think that the ravens will shut down Kaepernick and get in his head just like they did to Brady.

I am being optimistic I know (this is the time of year for it), but I think if Shula will bring in a more traditional NFl offense and will try to win games with it rather than audition for a head coaching job by installing a confusing complicated offense like Chud did, I think we can be very successful. That and working with Cam to be able to come back in the 4th quarter which is a skill he needs to work on. Going to a power run game complemented by a vertical power game should be very successful for us. Even the read option can work if we ran like San Fran or Washington rather than telegraphing like we in 2012. Plus not losing your starting center and having to shift everything on the fly every week with the offensive line,

[FootballMaestro]

I don't think Kaepernick is anything like Smith in terms of skills set. I simply said the system they run makes quarterbacks look better than they might be in another system. That is a complement to Harbaugh that he has a quarterback friendly system. But I do think that the ravens will shut down Kaepernick and get in his head just like they did to Brady.

I am being optimistic I know (this is the time of year for it), but I think if Shula will bring in a more traditional NFl offense and will try to win games with it rather than audition for a head coaching job by installing a confusing complicated offense like Chud did, I think we can be very successful. That and working with Cam to be able to come back in the 4th quarter which is a skill he needs to work on. Going to a power run game complemented by a vertical power game should be very successful for us. Even the read option can work if we ran like San Fran or Washington rather than telegraphing like we in 2012. Plus not losing your starting center and having to shift everything on the fly every week with the offensive line,

You must must mean WIN GAMES in the 4th quarter? :sword:

Cause Cam has brought the team back many times during the 4th quarter the past two years, just to watch the defense (no matter what they were rated at the time), cough up the lead for the Panthers to lose the game, such as Chicago, 2nd Tampa Bay and the 1st Atlanta game this year. And there were others. The Panthers should be at least 10-6 now, from those three games alone.

Did you know that during 6 of Andrew Luck's 4th quarter comeback/game winners (one was a 50+ yd FG), the offense turned the game over to the defense with 2-6 min left and watched them hold the lead, no matter how poorly rated they were at the time or to end the season? That's what helps a QB more than anything/stats. It's situational defense when it counts!

Not that Newton played every 4th quarter great (nobody does). However, he certainly made enough comebacks and gained the lead often enough, his first two seasons, but never got the defense to hold up their end of the bargain during plenty of games when it really counted.

[Russian Bear]

Too bad kap and newton will never win a super bowl cuz of the color of their skin.

[Cary Kollins]

Guys, Jim Harbaugh says all kinds of crazy poo to pump up his team. He did th same with Alex Smith last season. I think he said something along the lines of Alex Smith being a top 3 QB and the "long-term QB of the 49ers".

He says these things to show his unwavering support of his players.