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I've been a pretty big critic of Russell Wilson as being "overhyped" but the Seahawks problem right now is A)Their offensive coordinator is not very good and B)their offensive line has been an unbelievable dumpster fire for a few years now. Apparently "actually played football" is pretty low on their list of qualifications for playing football, like having a STARTING LEFT TACKLE in George Fant who never IIRC played offensive line in his life before this year. I think it's early to say the wheels have come off him yet. Maybe they think because they have a mobile quarterback they can just throw anyone out there but it's obviously not working.
I'm not penciling Prescott as a top 5 QB for the next decade or anything, I just think he's far more likely to end up on the good side than turn into another Kaepernick/Robert Griffin/<insert other flash-in-the-pan QB>.
You obviously know the team better than me and I've long had a bias towards Alex Smith in thinking he's underrated but I think it would have been smart to wait to bring in Kaepernick for another year or so, though I would have eventually switched to Kaepernick down the road. Alex Smith was having a really good year before he got concussed and that defense was filthy. It seemed to make more sense to keep a veteran in on a team like that where you didn't need to hit home runs when you had Frank Gore and a defense like they had, not to mention that Alex Smith did have some firepower in him when it absolutely had to come out.
Maybe Harbaugh thought there wouldn't be another window to do it in his tenure (and he may have been right).
I'm not penciling Prescott as a top 5 QB for the next decade or anything, I just think he's far more likely to end up on the good side than turn into another Kaepernick/Robert Griffin/<insert other flash-in-the-pan QB>.
I dunno, for me the Kaep replacement was never about Kaep being better in that moment than Smith. It was more that Kaep had more upside than Smith. Smith was competent and safe. He'd never lose you the game, but he wouldn't really win you one either. Kaepernick, with his speed, the arm, and deep accuracy was the sort of player with the potential to put the team on his back and win games. Which he did that year. So, at least to my mind, the conversation was never "which of Smith and Kaepernick is better right now," but rather, "which player has more upside going forward considering the receiving corps and coaching staff we had," and in light of that information I think it made more sense to go with Kaepernick, who was never not a project QB. Even though he's decidedly failed to pan out, I still think opting for Kaepernick made the most sense at the time.
You obviously know the team better than me and I've long had a bias towards Alex Smith in thinking he's underrated but I think it would have been smart to wait to bring in Kaepernick for another year or so, though I would have eventually switched to Kaepernick down the road. Alex Smith was having a really good year before he got concussed and that defense was filthy. It seemed to make more sense to keep a veteran in on a team like that where you didn't need to hit home runs when you had Frank Gore and a defense like they had, not to mention that Alex Smith did have some firepower in him when it absolutely had to come out.
Maybe Harbaugh thought there wouldn't be another window to do it in his tenure (and he may have been right).