I said it last year and in years past that if somebody can find me a realistic worse QB name to add to the team than Colt McCoy then go ahead and try but you probably can't do it. I said to friends when he was in college that I'd legally change my name to Colt McCoy (awful name) if he could become an average-above average quarterback at any point in his career.
I said when they traded for him that any of you probably couldn't name me a realistic quarterback I'd want LESS on the 49ers as a backup than Colt McCoy. He literally was at the bottom of my list. Last. Nobody behind him. I'd rather have McLeod Bethel-Thompson who was on the 49ers backing up Kaepernick than McCoy.
Gabbert is slightly above McCoy but not by much. It's not a shocking move to me, though. Harbaugh was on his believer list when he came out, according to reports. This feels more like a Harbaugh move than a predominately backed Baalke move with some kind of support from Harbaugh.
I'm not going to act like most fans and think that there's this long list of guys that were realistically available for the 49ers to pick from, but this is another one of a semi long list of depth players that I don't/didn't like.
On a childish, superficial level. Gabbert is EXTREMELY hard to look at physically, too. That doesn't help.
