The Niners - We Made Our Bed

I don't know the right football call - Smith vs. Kaepernick, but as a fan, I know this:  I like our team less right now.  When a man leaves his loving family for his hot secretary, you don't root for their relationship to succeed.  You don't necessarily root against it, but you don't root for it.  The Niners went that way.  We got swept up in the bullshit.  We got swept up by Kaepernick making a few great plays and passing the "eye" test.  Although, as I pointed out last week, the Bears game was a bit deceiving because the Bears did not come to play.  It wasn't like Kaepernick defeated a team who came to play -- and Kaepernick has played against such teams - the Rams twice and the Giant's for a few snaps.  Both times, he looked decent to bad, just like Smith has looked at times.  And if Brooks doesn't intercept that pass at the end of the half against the Saints, that game goes a different way.  I hate rushing to judgement on a rookie, but that's what kind of environment we've built, the type of expectations we've set for ourselves with installing Kaepernick.  He has to outperform Smith to justify playing.  And thus far, simply put, he has not.  Smith has games that can stack up against Kaep's performance against Chicago - Green Bay week 1, Arizona a couple weeks ago, Saints playoff game last year.  Do we forget all this?  And why are people bringing up 6 years ago with respect to Smith?  If we want to go back and look at college tape of Kaepernick, I'm sure it wouldn't all be pretty.

Make no mistake, we lost the game today because of Kaepernick.  Let's not sugar coat it.  We all know that game is a W with Smith at quarterback.  If Kaep is the future, so be it, let's accept the rough spots.  But these Niners are built to win NOW.  We have as good a chance as any team in the NFL to win with Smith at QB.  For chrissake, if it weren't for Kaep, that game is a shutout.  He handed the Rams 10 points with a dumbass safety where he either needed to take the sack early or throw it way and that ridiculous read option play.

And I don't like the look of Kaep's throws.  He takes too long to wind up.  This is not good.  He threw people for a loop, and everyone thinks he's Tom Brady.  It makes me really not like the sports media and the hubris and arrogance of the Niner brain trust.  They made decisions just like all the bankers moving into mortgage back securities and all these other tales of guys thinking they are smarter than they are (Vietnam, etc).