Posted on 07/29/2017 11:32:35 AM PDT by American Quilter
Colin Kaepernick is likely being blackballed, according to ESPNs Adam Schefter. There have been plenty of other reasons and excuses provided by NFL teams to explain why the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback is still a free agent, but Kaepernicks protests from the 2016 season loom large.
In a Thursday morning appearance on ESPN Radios Mike and Mike, Adam Schefter said he believes that NFL owners have tried to keep coaches and front-office personnel from going after Kaepernick.
Do I think that certain owners have blocked teams from visits or interest? I do, I do believe that, Schefter said. And I think that there has been more interest in him from the coaching and front office level than there has been at the ownership level. So it was always going to take a unique opportunity for him to be brought in, in the right place, at the right spot, at the right time.
Many others believe NFL owners have halted general managers from signing Kaepernick, but Schefter is one of the most connected reporters in the league and one of the few to actually say that owners are likely the reason Kaepernick is still a free agent.
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Uhhh Colin....Oscar Gamble called, he said he wanted his hair back.
Excuses???? That’s hilarious. Perhaps the rest of the talk radio yakkers + writers should go stand in the corner + shake themselves until they get Smack themselves into getting some common sense.
Self-inflicted, deservedly reaping what he has sown & it looks like it’s a ‘bumper’ crop.
Colin Kaepernick is responsible for a permanent 3% drop in NFL game viewership. Add to that the left’s desire to destroy football because it is too related to free enterprise where the ability of the players and the marketplace determines salaries.
The leftists want the football players to conform to their version of “fairness” with room for transgenders, homosexuals, etc. They are using the excuse that there is too much roughness in the sport, too many concussions, etc.
Professional football, as we know it, is on its way out. The high water mark took place in years past. Thanks to players like Kaepernick we are at the beginning of the end.
This is about MONEYm understand? MONEY and nothing else.
Any team which signs Kaepernick would cost themselves MONEY.
Therefore, NO team will sign Kaepernick.
If Kaepernick could MAKE money for any team, somebody would SIGN him.
Did you see what this idiot did this last 4th of July?
The a--hole Colin Kaepernick hates America, sympathizes with the Regimes of killers like Fidel Castro, and is thus absolute POISON to the financial bottom line of ANY NFL team he would ever sign with.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that Colin Kaepernick personally flushed his own NFL career down the toilet. Period. End of story.
Those are the FACTS.
Thank you for your time...
That's because NFL fans are apparently not interested in Colin Kaepernick. Buy a clue, morons...
Poor Colin Kaepernick. No one wants to hire a Social Justice Warrior snowflake.
Real Life 101: Most businesses are very reluctant to hire a known troublemaker.
“He sucks at QB.”
Okay, I’m no John Elway, but I don’t remember anyone saying that Tebow sucked while he was taking the Broncos to the playoffs—as a rookie, wasn’t it?
“Right now he is having the time of his life in the minors. He’s happy and loving his life, and drawing record crowds, and “no complaints”. Blacklisting for Tim was a blessing in disguise.”
Good points all.
By their fruits...
>>Okay, Im no John Elway, but I dont remember anyone saying that Tebow sucked while he was taking the Broncos to the playoffs<<
8-6 record with a 72 passer (75 overall) rating and a >50% Int/TD ratio — pretty dismal.
caperdink, by comparison, was an 81 passer at his low point (89 overall) and a 41% Int/TD rating.
The stats don’t always tell the story, either. It is WHEN the INTs happen and WHICH games are lost and how.
They both suck but Tebow was even worse than caperdink. A lot worse.
I liked Tebow and am happy he has a burgeoning career in baseball. But liking him doesn’t make him better.
In my view, statistics don’t tell the whole story.
Yet some of these networks are having such a cow that teams and fans are rejecting him that I am surprised they haven’t tried to get the commissioner to “order” a team to take him.
I see what you did there!
>>In my view, statistics dont tell the whole story.<<
That was included in my comment.
Tebow was bad and at the worst times.
We should all be glad he went to baseball. Baseball players suffer few of the physical ailments that stalk football players for the rest of their lives after football.
Harbaugh left.
Kaepernick went 3-16 as a starter after that. Last year, he was sacked twice as often (9.6% of drop backs vs 6.4%) as his own backup, Blaine Gabbert, behind the same O-line.... and he turns 30 this year, 3 tears removed from his last solid won.
NOBODY stays in the NFL at age 30 going 3-16. It has NOTHING to do with the anthem. Kaepernick's best chance is to follow Harbaugh to the University of Michigan.
Black quarterbacks pay packages matter. Oh that’s right! Sorry Colin you don’t have one
Kaepernick is being blackballed because he sucks. I watched him against the Pats last year. He actually look good for a quarter. Then the Pats figured him out and he was terrible the rest of the game. I know, the Pats were the best team in the league, but still, he was awful.
FINALLY some Common Sense!
PRETTY sure OWNERS can do that, idiot!
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