🏈 Kaepernick made a big deal about doing a workout for NFL teams. ... This guy doesn't want to play. He just wants attention

[50+yeartidefan]

Just been outta football so long.
Washed up hypocrite

 

[UAgrad93]

His minute and a half speech was all about him and just a chance for him to take another shot at the NFL and Goodell. He’s already squeezed money from the league once and this is likely to head that direction again. It has nothing to do with playing. It’s ALL about him.

 

[sean]

he's nothing but an American-hating punk and needs to be exorcised from this country.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

It was a ploy for attention. I was listening to Kincaid on Jox while I was running some errands yesterday. He said that there were people at the high school setting up for the alternate location the first thing that morning. He added, and as the NFL statement said, he was given the standard waiver form on Wednesday and there were no objections until the night before.

The whole Kunte Kinte' shirt thing, for me, is over the top. The idea of his mistreatment or enslavement is, at best, a fable. His white mother gave him up for adoption, and a loving white family took him in as their own and gave him a great upbringing.

With his physical talent, just imagine if he had his head screwed on like Julio or Ingram. Instead of goading the NFL into providing a payment, he could simply work for it.

 

[footballer]

 

[planomateo]

Everything I've read suggest Kaep was not given a standard waiver form, it was much shorter. I don't think the NFL had any intention of following through with Kaep in the NFL. This was a PR stunt by the NFL.

I also don't think Kaep thought this was a legit shot, so perhaps he flipped the script. He did this on his terms, like it or not. Maybe he planned this from the beginning?

And I'm also of the opinion, the NFL is scared of Kaep. Kinda funny if you think about it, a massive corporation scared of a single guy who spoke his mind and got his peers engaged. That's some power.

I don't think he really understood how kneeling would have been received by society. I wonder if he'd change things knowing what he knows now about kneeling and what a lighting rod it was.

Ironically, it doesn't seem like he's controlled the narrative in any of this. Kneeling was probably the biggest mistake in all of this, as it seemed to have really turned people off to the NFL in general.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

A player at that position out of nfl for this many years...all he can do is pull stunts..
And he wasn't that good anyway...
He has his Nike shit.... now go away...fraud...go far away

 

[Rolltide24]

Can we delete this thread? Super tired of seeing this guys name. he's not even playing and he gest more attention than the players on the field. Something just isn't right here. He wins every time we see or hear his name...

 

[BamaFan334]

Everything I've read suggest Kaep was not given a standard waiver form, it was much shorter. I don't think the NFL had any intention of following through with Kaep in the NFL. This was a PR stunt by the NFL.

I also don't think Kaep thought this was a legit shot, so perhaps he flipped the script. He did this on his terms, like it or not. Maybe he planned this from the beginning?

And I'm also of the opinion, the NFL is scared of Kaep. Kinda funny if you think about it, a massive corporation scared of a single guy who spoke his mind and got his peers engaged. That's some power.

I don't think he really understood how kneeling would have been received by society. I wonder if he'd change things knowing what he knows now about kneeling and what a lighting rod it was.

Ironically, it doesn't seem like he's controlled the narrative in any of this. Kneeling was probably the biggest mistake in all of this, as it seemed to have really turned people off to the NFL in general.

I don't think they are scared at all of him. He messed with their reputation, he messed with their money, he messed with their future and they black balled his ass. That's called a power move and lets you and everyone else know they won't put up with anything they don't want to. Scared? Scared would be to let him keep playing, making noise in the media while on one of their teams, keep kneeling on one of their sidelines, and continuing to damage their reputation because of the repercussion. The NFL ain't scared of ole boy, I can tell you that much. They may have been worried in the beginning and tried to come up with a solution to not give themselves a black eye, but they are WAY smarter than he is and have rid themselves of a problem. Has the BS about kneeling not calmed down a lot this season? They ain't scared.

 

[TerryP]

Everything I've read suggest Kaep was not given a standard waiver form, it was much shorter. I don't think the NFL had any intention of following through with Kaep in the NFL. This was a PR stunt by the NFL.

There's reason to believe NFL's Colin Kaepernick workout was a Trojan horse

Lawyers slipped clauses into a liability release that would create a foothold to fight vs. litigation under state and federal employment laws.

sports.yahoo.com

 

[Justneedme81]

Everyone was quick to blame Kap… but won't take the time to read the full details of what went down.

 

[planomateo]

I don't think they are scared at all of him. He messed with their reputation, he messed with their money, he messed with their future and they black balled his ass. That's called a power move and lets you and everyone else know they won't put up with anything they don't want to. Scared? Scared would be to let him keep playing, making noise in the media while on one of their teams, keep kneeling on one of their sidelines, and continuing to damage their reputation because of the repercussion. The NFL ain't scared of ole boy, I can tell you that much. They may have been worried in the beginning and tried to come up with a solution to not give themselves a black eye, but they are WAY smarter than he is and have rid themselves of a problem. Has the BS about kneeling not calmed down a lot this season? They ain't scared.

Ok, my opinion the NFL is afraid of Kaep, they couldn't control him. They were scared of any future damage he could do. His kneeling impacted the NFL financially.

 

[BamaFan334]

Ok, my opinion the NFL is afraid of Kaep, they couldn't control him. They were scared of any future damage he could do. His kneeling impacted the NFL financially.

I guess I look at it from a business prospective where any employee could cause you immediate financial loss, but it's your reaction that matters. In my eyes, he is no different than what Myles Garrett did by swinging a helmet and hitting a player, the many actions of Pacman Jones, the illegal acts on the field of Vontaez Burfect, the actions of Ray Rice, trials of Ray Lewis, and the continued failed drug tests of Josh Gordon. These guys and the hundreds of others are all soiling the names of these teams and they are starting to realize, just like the government, that people are fed up and that they better clean up their act before all fans are gone. They have black balled a number of guys recently, after years of turning their heads. All of those guys slowly costs the owners money. Kaepernick is just another problem for them that they are solving. How do you control your employees? You flex your muscle and show your power. I do find it funny that Nike got a partnership agreement, and then goes out and pushes the Kaepernick envelope. I wonder if that is grounds for a contractual break? Now Nike has some muscle, as brought to light with the basketball scandal, but the NFL can easily go in another direction as well and succeed. I see just as many Reebok jerseys out there as Nike ones on fans, and Reebok was years ago. These guys aren't billionaires and some of the most powerful people in the world because they were scared of their worker bees. But if that's your opinion, that's your opinion. No issues with that.

 

[ElephantStomp]

Whether you agree with him or not it can’t be denied he has no interest in being a NFL QB he’d rather be a martyr.

You don’t go to a job interview wearing a shirt like that and make the statement afterwards that he did. The NFL didn’t have to set anything up

 

[planomateo]

Whether you agree with him or not it can’t be denied he has no interest in being a NFL QB he’d rather be a martyr.

You don’t go to a job interview wearing a shirt like that and make the statement afterwards that he did. The NFL didn’t have to set anything up

Or he realized what the NFL was up to...

He has an agenda, just like the NFL does. Don't think the NFL was doing him a favor, it's pretty evident the NFL had a motive that had nothing to do with Kaep getting back to the NFL.

Sometimes things aren't what they seem.

 

[Tidestalker]

Everything I've read suggest Kaep was not given a standard waiver form, it was much shorter. I don't think the NFL had any intention of following through with Kaep in the NFL. This was a PR stunt by the NFL.

I also don't think Kaep thought this was a legit shot, so perhaps he flipped the script. He did this on his terms, like it or not. Maybe he planned this from the beginning?

And I'm also of the opinion, the NFL is scared of Kaep. Kinda funny if you think about it, a massive corporation scared of a single guy who spoke his mind and got his peers engaged. That's some power.

I don't think he really understood how kneeling would have been received by society. I wonder if he'd change things knowing what he knows now about kneeling and what a lighting rod it was.

Ironically, it doesn't seem like he's controlled the narrative in any of this. Kneeling was probably the biggest mistake in all of this, as it seemed to have really turned people off to the NFL in general.

Yes... It's kind of ironic.

If the kneeling has turned people off in regards to watching & buying the NFL product, it's hurt a corporation that has created more black millionaires than any I can think of.

I don't see salary caps going down any time soon, but the TV viewership will directly correlate to the employees revenue share. And this isn't to say that the progress, donations, and support towards the police brutality movement wasn't "worth it" to many of those employees... Just interesting how it all works out.