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NEW ORLEANS — There is no bounty, of course, on Colin Kaepernick. And maybe the 49ers’ Lethal Weapon cannot be rattled.
The Ravens plan on finding out.
Call it Kaeperknock.
There will be occasions when Kaepernick exposes himself as a running back in Super Bowl XLVII, and on those occasions the Ravens vow to make him pay for his transgression.
The strategy: Tattoo him.
“If we can make sure that we stop Frank Gore, and then once we stop him then Colin will probably try to run it more, and we can try to get to Colin as fast as we can and try to hit him hard,” Ravens defensive tackle Haloti Ngata told The Post.
Ngata was asked whether a good hit on Kaepernick might discourage him from using those legs to get to the edge.
“You don’t know,” Ngata said. “You’ve got to wait until you see when you hit him. If you give him a good hit, hopefully that could make him think again about running the ball. I don’t think if you hit him once, it’s gonna stop him from trying to do it again, so definitely, when we have the chance to hit him, we have to hit him hard.”
Can Kaepernick be rattled?
“We don’t know yet because he hasn’t really gotten hit by a lot of defenses yet,” Ngata said.
Why haven’t defenses been able to hit him?
“Green Bay tried to play the dive and got confused a lot of times and he was able to run outside and never really got hit,” Ngata said. “Atlanta tried to box him in, then they ran up the middle. Colin wasn’t hit either game.
“I think a lot of people are scared of maybe possibly getting a penalty or fine for trying to hit him but I don’t know if people understand that if he’s running that option play and you don’t know who has the ball, you still can hit him because he becomes a runner instead of a quarterback.”
The wounded Ravens were shredded by Michael Vick and Robert Griffin III, but feel that facing them has helped them prepare for Kaepernick.
Bernard Pollard seconded that emotion.
“If he runs, you’ve got to hit him,” Pollard said of Kaepernick. “He’s basically a running back who can throw the ball very well.”
“Dramatically,” cornerback Corey Graham said.
“Absolutely,” linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo said. “Especially RG3 and seeing the Pistol [formation], we have a better feel for it, so we know what to expect.”
I asked Graham what his confidence level is for his defense stopping or slowing Kaepernick.
“Ten,” Graham said.
Ngata, whose main task will be stopping the dive play, said: “I think it definitely gave us an idea of what we have done wrong and what we could do better. I think we’ve got to make sure with this game we adjust faster than we did and communicate better at what we’re gonna be doing. So I think this time around we’ll do better.”
Defensive coordinator Dean Pees was asked if he has seen anyone similar to Kaepernick.
“No,” Pees said. “People are trying to say because we played Washington and RG3, I think they’re two different style of guys. I watched him run in Green Bay and Usain Bolt might be a guy I might compare him to. I mean, that guy can run now. It’s a whole different type of offense to me. It’s a zone read, but it’s a lot different.”
The Ravens defenders say Vick and RG3 are shiftier, while Kaepernick is much more of a straight-line blazer.
“He’s definitely more explosive,” linebacker Terrell Suggs said.
Which makes Kaepernick more of a clear and present danger.
“He’s different because he has that zero-to-60, get-out-of-there speed, and all he needs is a crease and he’s gone for a touchdown,” safety James Ihedigbo said. “Preparation’s everything.”
For the front line.
“You’ve got to be disciplined in your rush lanes when you’re rushing the passer and be disciplined in your assignments when you’re going against the Pistol,” linebacker Dannell Ellerbe said.
And for the secondary.
“As a defensive back, you have to be disciplined in your coverage and rely on those guys to make the play,” safety Ed Reed said.
Pees has gotten the better of Peyton Manning and Tom Brady and now must pick his poison with Kaepernick, who can beat you every which way.
“He’s not only got a big arm, he’s very, very accurate,” Pees said.
Adds former Ravens coach Brian Billick: “His throwing action is reminiscent of Warren Moon, and that’s impressive.”
So how do you stop him?
“The prevailing mentality is make him hand the ball off,” Billick said.
And when he doesn’t, tattoo him.
Kaeperknock.
steve.serby@nypost.com