Through three games of this season, Kaepernick’s rushing average is half of what it was that January night in Candlestick Park. What’s happened?
“It’s like anything. Whenever anybody’s had success, you study the heck out of it in the offseason. People are going to study it and work on it,” Packers Defensive Coordinator Dom Capers said.
In that playoff game, the Packers got caught off guard. Kaepernick had used the read option sparingly in late-season games, but it wasn’t until that playoff game the 49ers turned it loose.
“They had two weeks to prepare. They got into some looks they hadn’t shown,” Capers recalled.