Alex P Keaton said:
JamesTheScot said:
CapnJB said:
I would hope that Kaepernick would be prepared after spending a season and a half in the NFL. It's not like he only spent a third of the reps with the 1st team in camp before being thrown into the fray.
The stats I listed were just data points from the same time. If you don't think those are acurate depictions of Kaepernick or Wilson, well... that's up to you. But if I said would you rather have had Kaep or Wilson for the second half of the season I'm pretty sure you'd go with Wilson.
Good posting. Kaep's first 8 games aren't comparable to Wilson's first 8 anymore than Aaron Rodger's first 8 are. Kaepernick had a season and half of film study and practice reps before he started. Wilson had a training camp.
Both had an advantage that the other lacked. I don't think we can name a clear winner in that respect.
Do you think that film study and practice reps are equivalent to actual game time?
No. But I know your performance in a game seems to be directly tied to film study and practice reps, so it would be just as foolish to discount it as meaningless.
Do you think having a year to study film, practice in the NFL and adjust to the speed of the game is worthless? If not, then a guy who has sat for one year still has some advantage over a guy that is a true rookie.
That's why I say they both had an advantage that the other lacked. Wilson had his first 8 games, albeit with the training wheels on. Kaepernick had an extra offseason, albeit abbreviated, and a then a whole season of film study, weekly prep and practice reps in 2011 that Wilson didn't have.
I don't think there's an equation where you can say X games started = Y weeks holding a clipboard. Both are valuable and confer a benefit (unless you're Tim Couch or David Carr getting your skull crushed at every turn). But they are different. Rodgers seemed to hit the ground running with very little game experience. But he certainly has gotten better with real game experience as well. So he was able to learn a lot from watching. But he also gained a lot from real game experience.
Why does this have to turn into a debate where we discount one over the other just to prove a point on a message board? For Pete's sake!