Colin Kaepernick struggled against the Seahawks on Thursday night. As usual.
In Seattle’s 19-3 Thanksgiving night win at San Francisco, Richard Sherman picked off Kaepernick twice and the 49ers’ offense never got into the end zone. In fact, the 49ers only got into the red zone once, and on their one and only red-zone play, Kaepernick was sacked and the 49ers were pushed back out of the red zone.
That kind of game has become commonplace for Kaepernick against Seattle. In Kaepernick’s five starts against the Seahawks (counting the playoffs) he has completed 77 of 146 passes for 820 yards, with three touchdowns and nine interceptions. The 49ers have lost four of those five games.
That’s a far cry from Kaepernick’s numbers in the rest of his career: When not facing Seattle, Kaepernick has completed 629 of 1,031 passes for 8,336 yards, with 50 touchdowns and 15 interceptions. Kaepernick has never thrown more than one touchdown pass in a game against the Seahawks but has thrown more than one touchdown 14 different times against other teams. On the other hand, Kaepernick has only thrown more than one interception in a game four times. Three of those four were against Seattle.
The 49ers will need Kaepernick to figure out Seattle’s defense in a hurry. The teams meet again in Seattle on December 14, in a game that looks like a must-win for the 49ers.
