He previously spent the first four seasons of his career with the Vikes, going 14-21-1 in 36 career starts and throwing for 6,658 yards, 38 touchdowns and 36 interceptions while adding another seven scores on the ground. On the other side of the coin was a pair of fumbles, one of which was scooped up and returned for a touchdown while the other occurred inside Houston’s 5-yard line.
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“I thought we were okay”, Kelly told Murph and Mac on Monday morning, the day after a 24-13 preseason loss.
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. – Backup quarterbacks Scott Tolzien and Stephen Morris teamed up in leading Indianapolis to a preseason-opening victory over Buffalo. San Francisco quarterbacks combined to rush for 89 yards on 12 carries.
The 49ers ran 50 (fifty!) plays in the first half against the Houston Texans, and they gained 302 yards. In that year, both Marshawn Lynch and Alfred Morris saw their respective career high’s in yards per carry, and while Frank Gore’s wasn’t a career mark, he went from averaging 4.2 and 4.3 in the two previous seasons to almost five yards per carry in 2012.
No, there wasn’t a ton to love offensively about the 49ers showing against the Texans. Everything is stacked against the 49ers, and we can already see that Gabbert is going to take them exactly to their median expectations. I felt we finally got in a groove the third series.’ He understood how the no-huddle works, which we hadn’t really done that before here.
For now, that’s all speculation – Kaepernick’s still a 49er, albeit one without an arm apparently allowing him to throw.
Colin Kaepernick was supposed to compete with Blaine Gabbert to see who would be the starting quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers. Yeah, it’s really fun. If that’s the case, Chip Kelly isn’t going to admit it. And their first preseason game against the Texans didn’t do much to inspire confidence that it will be getting better any time soon.
With so much uncertainty at the quarterback position, having a player with some National Football League experience, the right skillset to run Kelly’s offense, and experience in that system could have been invaluable out of the potential number three.
That was what Denver demanded-John Elway said he’d pay Kaepernick a salary of $7M max, so the 49ers had to take care of the rest of the guarantee. “We’re running in between the tackles”. The receiver got his hand on the ball, but it was tipped into the air and grabbed by cornerback Lorenzo Doss, who ran into the end zone. Gabbert is the safer play not to be laughed off the field, but there isn’t a range of outcomes where he gets you to the playoffs.
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But with Lewis done for the year, Driskell not performing, Kaepernick not playing, and Gabbert not playing very well, the team had to do something. “When we get rolling and string together a bunch of quality plays and have extended drives, it puts such pressure on the defense to make plays”.
