So now it's Kurt Warner's fault for screwing up Colin Kaepernick.
The demise of the 49ers quarterback, the analysis of which began after San Francisco's blowout loss to the Cardinals in which Kap had four interceptions and two returned for touchdowns, continued after a 17-3 loss to Green Bay on Sunday.
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Kaepernick was put in a no-win situation by 49ers owner Jed York, the San Jose Mercury News reported.
The enlistment of Warner, the Hall of Fame quarterback, was a byproduct of York's bumbling.
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The Mercury News' Tim Kawakami said that York and general manager Trent Baalke may have relied too heavily on the advice of former NFL quarterback Trent Dilfer and decided that coach Jim Harbaugh and offensive coordinator Greg Roman were Kaepernick's problem.
"Yes, working with Kurt Warner last offseason -- right out of the Dilfer playbook -- made it worse," Kawakami wrote. "Again, I never followed the logic of this but it made sense to 49ers management: They believed working on his pocket skills with Warner and also designing an offense suited to his runs would let Kaepernick cut loose.
"But it never made sense, when you put it together. They were pulling Kaepernick both ways and he didn't know enough or wasn't strong enough to stop and say, THIS DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.
"Actual result: He looks like he's hesitating in the middle of every throw, trying to think through the release, then re-think it, neither fully committed to just throwing it naturally or to a clinical approach...
"And that's the worst kind of in-between for an NFL QB."
Kaepernick has completed 22-of-44 passes for 227 yards with zero touchdowns and five interceptions in his last two games combined, and the Niners have been outscored 64-10.
He struggled last season as Harbaugh tried to make him more comfortable in the pocket, but Kawakami wrote that it was never Harbaugh's intent to make Kaepernick a pocket passer.
Warner and quarterbacks coach Dennis Gile had 11 weeks to transform Kaepernick from the style of play he has used his entire life and turn him into a Warner clone.
That worked when Kaepernick wasn't under any pressure.
It's up to new coach Jim Tomsula and offensive coordinator Geep Chryst to find a happy medium to get Kaepernick headed in a positive direction.
That may be forcing Kaepernick to forget what he learned in the offseason, for now.
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