Kaepernick

TMZ releases a video of Sio Moore and Kaepernick talking shit to one another in the tunnel at halftime.

On Cowherd yesterday, Dilfer and Cowherd were talking about how Kap is a broken man and how he used to be such a fun loving, nice, smart kid. Dilfer thought he needed a Mike Holmgren type coach who would hug him and nurture him. I never saw it. I always felt like the media and some people in the football world looked at him through rose-tinted glasses. The guy never once has displayed the ability to read defenses or succeed consistently in the pocket. And while he did run well, the Niners running game as a whole suffered right from the beginning of when he played because he never audibles at the line (as you see Peyton, Brady, Brees, and yes, Alex Smith do) into a hand off because he spots the defensive mismatch.

Kaepernick reminds me of Matt Barnes, personality-wise. Both guys are mixed race and raised in predominantly white areas. Both have a lot of tattoos and see themselves as "tough" guys, and get into needless scrapes because they have chips on their shoulder for some reason. They aren't tough in the way Anquan Boldin is tough or Justin Smith is tough. Those guys are unspoken tough guys. You don't see them getting in fights because no one wants to fight them. They are tough, without having chips on their shoulders. Kap and Barnes aren't even tough in the way Steve Smith is tough. Smith is feisty and has a Napoleonic complex and is an instigator. Kap and Barnes are punks. They are petty. They overreact to slights by the other players. They feel the need to overcompensate and prove their toughness.

Matt Barnes is a competitor and has been a productive player on some teams, but he is more like a bench player. You would not want Matt Barnes as the face of your franchise. And this is the problem with Kap. He has the make up of a football player, but maybe not a quarterback. He isn't a leader. How in the world is your quarterback getting into a halftime shit-talk with a rookie linebacker on the 1-11 Raiders? That is pure stupidity and immaturity. You can say all you want about Kap being a nice kid, etc, etc, he just isn't a QB or a leader.