San Francisco 49ers QB Coach Steve Logan Willing to Sacrifice Accuracy for Mobility

The San Francisco 49ers have experience a good bit of turnover in the coaching ranks this off-season. One of the many newcomers to the staff is quarterbacks coach Steve Logan, an analysts for a news station in North Carolina for the last few years since being let go by the Tamp Bay Buccaneers back in 2011. Starting next season he will be back on the sideline again, and will hopefully figure out how to get the most out of Colin Kaepernick.

He has an interesting philosophy when it comes to quarterbacks. One that will work in Kaepernick's benefit when it comes to evaluations, but does not necessarily produce the best results.

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He has stated that he prefers mobility over accuracy. He said as much while he was coaching at Tulsa back in early 1980s:

“I had an option quarterback that could throw the football pretty nicely. And we didn't know how to protect the passer. We didn't know what we we doing. We were all 20 years old. We were out there playing football. And Texas Tech is blitzing and I go, 'Where did that guy come from?' But I really wasn't concerned about because a kid named Steve Gage, he just makes a guy miss, runs around throws a touchdown pass. I go, 'That's how you do it; ain't nothing to it!' … And the rest of my career, I tell you what, mobility at the quarterback position – this is the antidote to free blitzers. Because the arithmetic of football says this, 'No matter how many people you keep in to protect the passer, the defense can always bring one more.' Offense plays with 10 people, not 11. Offense plays with 10 people. I want to get that point across to my fellow coaches who I sat in room with before that don't understand this arithmetic. The offense plays with 10. The defense plays with 11. Therefore, at any given time the defense can bring one more guy than I can protect with. When that happens, what are we gonna do? We're going to have Russell Wilson or Cam Newton or Aaron Rodgers – you guys got that? – and he's gonna run around and make guys miss and we're going to score. That's it. It's a simple game.”

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To an extent it is understandable. Guys like Kaepernick, RG3, Russell Wilson, and Johnny Manziel have the ability to break plays that would be otherwise broken with their ability to scramble either by turning them in to long runs or by giving receivers more time to get open. If the defense does happen to send one more than you have blockers for you need your quarterback to be able to make someone miss.

But how often does this happen? If you can't complete passes who cares how good his mobility is? Maybe Kaepernick's is not as good as his runs make him seem. Last season he was sacked 52 times, second most in the league next to Blake Bortles.

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