But the welcome offered to San Francisco starting quarterback Colin Kaepernick in the parking lot wasn’t almost as warm.
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Running back Carlos Hyde could see a difference on Sunday in how the Buffalo Bills defend the zone-read game with Colin Kaepernick replacing Gabbert at the controls of the 49ers’ offense.
Kaepernick will try to help the 49ers improve on their 1-4 record while attempting to reassemble his National Football League career. From this point in the season forward, if Kaepernick plays in 50 percent of the 49ers’ snaps, he will collect on the $1 million incentive. He has continued to take a knee throughout the regular season. If Kaepernick really is quickly going through his progressions, he would make that quick throw to the open receiver and defenses will actually respect him as a QB.
“I enjoyed coaching LeSean in the two years that we had him in Philadelphia”.
But Kaepernick represents everything we thought Kelly’s offense needed when he left OR after creating the most potent offenses in the country with mobile quarterbacks.
“For sure, that’s way behind me”, McCoy said. We’re trying to get better in all aspects. “And I think we will be”. Signed after his breakout season in 2013, the contract was structured in such a way that the Niners would have been on the hook for $14.5 million in 2017 season if Kaepernick got hurt this year. The result was his maddening habit of throwing short of the line to gain, asking his overmatched check-down options to make plays after the catch. “That’s not happening here; we’re not good enough to overlook anybody, let alone the 49ers”. But this offence should be good for him. That was the area where he kind of took a step back.
After getting benched in the middle of last season, Kaepernick underwent season-ending surgery on his left shoulder.
“It’s not Blaine’s fault, ” Kelly said. He was cleared medically in August.
“Hopefully those are things that we progress on this week and show Sunday”, he said.
After all, remember in 2013 when the National Football League world wondered what a Kaepernick and Kelly pairing would look like?
Then other athletes – from elementary schools to professional sports teams – began following his lead.
(Garnett will) “continue to play more and we’ll see how that goes based on how we are in (practice)”, Kelly said.
“We had been talking about doing this for a while even before we found out he was starting”, Caitlin Blue, a 21-year-old from Buffalo, told The Huffington Post, speaking by phone from outside the stadium. The only position we don’t rotate on the offensive side of the ball is the quarterback.
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“I think we live in a society, No. 1, that there are no secrets”, Kelly said.
