Two-time NFL Player of the Year Kurt Warner revealed what he hoped Colin Kaepernick will learn from their offseason work, although Kaepernick might not want to hear it.
Ninersnation.com reported on an interview that Warner, the NFL Hall of Fame quarterback, did with Bay Area radio station 95.7-FM The Game, and Warner talked about what he wanted to see from the San Francisco 49ers quarterback that would make their pairing a successful partnership.
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"So I think the bottom line when you watch teams that are successful, and teams that go to championships, those teams are primarily based off of guys that can play the position inside the pocket," Warner said. "And then guys that can do different things, like a Russell Wilson, and extend a play. But I think it really just needs to become a balance of the two, but more importantly, let's design a pass offense that Colin feels comfortable with. And then, he can make those every day plays. And then when that's not there, or he's not comfortable with it, now we'll let him create, and let him do it five, six, seven, ten times a game. As opposed to running an offense where that could happen 20, 25 times a game.
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"Now, it's harder to survive, it's harder to be successful in this environment. I think the real key is for him to have to grow more as a passing, pocket quarterback, to complement all the other things that he does so well. And I think that's what's going to make him great, very much like a Russell Wilson type, who seemed to find that balance a little better than most guys that we would term as an athletic quarterback.'"
How Kaepernick responds remains to be seen, but Warner said he wanted his pupil to learn how to walk (or in this case, throw) before learning how to run, so to speak. Kaepernick's athleticism taught him the opposite.
"I believe that it's hard to be successful playing quarterback if you're trying to create a play outside the box all the time," Warner said. "You have to be able to make those layups, those easy throws and easy reads, and comfortable getting one to two, and it's oftentimes to three, before you take off. And that's really what we were trying to do was just get him more comfortable in that kind of position. For me, that's where I was comfortable throwing. When I got out of a throwing position, I got uncomfortable. He's exactly the opposite, where when he's outside of a throwing position, and on the run and moving, man, that's where he feels at home. You know, being constricted and inside that pocket, and patient inside the pocket is where he's most uncomfortable."
If Kaepernick learns that balance, Warner will consider his 2015 to be successful.
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