A small problem for Colin Kaepernick. (Just so everyone knows I haven't drained my whole Dixie-cup full of cool aide.)

Two summers ago I was watching one of Steve Mariucci's shows for the NFL Network. The one where he went to a professional training center and talked to and worked out some of the college prospects before the NFL Draft.

In the episode I'm talking about one of the prospects was a young QB named Blaine Gabbert. (The kid who has been having his brains beaten out for the Jags for the last two years.)

Anyway... most of the show was just a lot of happy happy talk for TV. But when Mooch had Gabbert out on the practice field he got real serious about one habit of Gabbert's. Gabbert would drop back to pass... see an End or a LB coming free at him from the left, and he would spin to his right, turn his back on the line of scrimmage, and keep spinning all the way around again, until he'd "supposedly" escaped the would be sacker.

It was pretty obvious that this move made Mooch, the former QB coach, tear his hair out. He actually began numbering the reasons this reaction was wrong wrong wrong.

You're turning your back on the line of scrimmage.

You can't see what's happening down field at all.

To get away from one man, you are running the wrong way, so that if you are caught you'll lose an extra 10 to 15 yards.

And finally... you will be caught, because as fast as you are, NFL DEs and LBs are faster than anything you saw in college. And once they've seen that spin move... and they only have to see it once... they'll beat it, they'll catch you, and you'll end up losing your team huge chunks of yardage, plus the down, not to mention the beating you'll take.

Gabbert said that that's what he'd been coached to do in that situation. Mooch mentioned that he'd seen that move a lot in college games, mostly from spread QBs, and he understood why they did it. But he insisted that it was a bad idea to try that in the NFL.

Back to my point. I've seen Kaepernick do that same spin move a number of times. And in the last two games, I've seen him take big hits, and get sacked for big losses twice, making that same stupid spin move.

Maybe our coaches could get a copy of Mooch's show, and show that episode to Kaepernick. And then maybe they could read him a description of Gabbert's career thus far. Because in that show, Gabbert had the look of a kid who is sure he knows better than the teacher. And though I haven't watched much of Gabbert's career, I suspect he's still spinning whenever he gets the chance. (Not now, of course. He's on IR.)