If Flynn wasn't injured, he was probably the perfect intersection of reliable enough and not good enough to start.
There is a fundamental disagreement between player prep time and coaching time. Player time has decreased. Coaching time has not. So, like in college, coaches still devise new schemes but need to winnow down the decision making flowchart for QBs with less practice time. McVay is doing this with Goff in Los Angeles. They run the college get lined up early, read the D, coach calls in audible from sideline.
But if you have a franchise QB, or for the teams that are planning to get one any day now, they still have the New York phone book of an offense. Then the backup comes in and what do you know? The playbook has to change and be winnowed down.
Your choices are either draft Flynn, sign Kaepernick (run a dangerous version of a new offense) or Gary Danielson (veteran former starter who know one really wants to start anymore).
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