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He could not win the starting job over Blaine Gabbert. Blaine Gabbert then played horribly and Kaepernick got another shot. Team continued to suck with him at QB. The next season, SF was done with both of these guys and brought in Garoppolo. If the dude actually wanted to play football, that's one thing. The private workout thing shows he didn't really want to play. It was for publicity and when their crew wasn't going to be able to go in their and film their tv commercial, they bailed. One of the comments on that article was on point: "Guy complains about being unemployed. Guy decides to skip job interview." |
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Yep you nailed it. Which is exactly the point of the article. In a league starving for QBs a guy that would be at worst a very good backup was essentially blacklisted by a certain demographic for the sin of high lighting racial injustices in this country. Yet that same demographic will gladly cheer for a woman beater or a pussy grabber - as long as they don’t bring up race and are “good enough”. That’s essentially the point of the article- yet the majority of the responses are on how bad Kap is as a QB, which is complete BS compared to what else is in the league. But I don’t expect much acknowledgement of that from most on here - because it makes them feel same and secure to say it isn’t about race, just performance.
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As far as the workout, the fact the NFL was offering a workout (not teams) and they settled with him tells you the reality of the situation. I mean the NFL does that with all backup level QBs right? Yeah, exactly. |
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It’s not racist to be offended by someone kneeling for the national anthem.
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Why would he want to go be a backup QB somewhere? He didn't want to. |
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People seem to misremember that Kaepernick went from the Superbowl to NCF championship to protesting to being cut in back to back to back years. That's not what happened. After the '13 NFCC his play significantly regressed in '14 and then he was so god awful in '15 that he was benched for Blaine Gabbert halfway through the season. How bad do you have to be to get benched for Gabbert? Then the following preseason is when all of the protesting started when BTW he was still a back up to Gabbert.
Another thing that never comes up that IMO has a lot of do with no one signing him is how much money did he want back then and does he want now? We know that he walked away from ~$15M when he opted out of the final year for his contract with SF in '17, so one can presume that he thought he should still be a starter in the league or at least make starter like money. If you have a guy who hasn't been any good for 3 years asking for starter like money then you're probably not going to bring him in to begin with. Then add in the head ache and media shit storm that's going to come in with him, and you're not going to touch him. As for now, it's been reported that he wanted $20M to play for the AAF. No fucking way even a bad NFL GM will give him that kind of money. Can you imagine how pissed off we'd be if Ballard signed a back QB who hadn't been in the league for 5 years and played well for 8 instead of putting that cap hit towards LT, WR, CB, etc.? |
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