Joe Montana Comments on Colin Kaepernick’s Relationship with 49ers Teammates

Joe Montana was the quarterback during the golden age for the San Francisco 49ers, and he recently discussed the concerns surrounding his old franchise and current signal-caller Colin Kaepernick with Sports Illustrated (via Mitch Sanderson of The Score):  

(The quarterback) is usually the leader of the team in most cases. And people look to (Kaepernick) at this point, and he’s a quiet person. You know, he doesn’t share a lot, he doesn’t talk to a lot of the guys. And that’s difficult for an offense to operate because the communication between the quarterback and the receiver is one of the most important things.

Even with your offensive line, when there’s problems, you have to be able to talk to those guys and figure it out while you’re out on the field. And when you have a guy who doesn’t really want to be there, you don’t know whether to put yourself behind him or not. And you want to believe in him, but if he doesn’t want to be there then—I’m sure they did everything they could to try and get him to some place he’d be happy because it would be best for both teams.

If anybody would know about leadership and communication with teammates from the …

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