Posted on 11/18/2019 11:15:41 AM PST by conservative98
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- If there is anything we learned from the fiasco that was Colin Kaepernick’s workout Saturday is that it was more about appearances than it was ever about football.
For the league, the original, hastily organized, workout seemed to be about protecting itself from a potential second collusion lawsuit than giving Kaepernick another chance to play in the NFL. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have put media restrictions on it or presented him with an “unusual” waiver to sign just hours before.
For Kaepernick, the workout, which was scrapped and moved at the last minute to a high school 60 miles away, appeared to be more concerned with calling the NFL on its bluff and sticking it to the owners, while, at the same time, bringing more attention to his social-justice cause which, apparently, now includes himself.
Each side had its own self-serving motive to go along with this charade. If it was ever about how deep Kaepernick could still throw the ball, any NFL team -- including the eight that followed the workout to the high school -- could have had him in for a tryout on any Tuesday during the season the last three years.
Still, if Kaepernick, NFL scouts or a team’s fanbase clamoring for a quarterback genuinely thought his performance Saturday would result in a job Monday, the plan backfired, at least according to the talking heads on ESPN and elsewhere.
“Does Colin Kaepernick really want to play football?”, ESPN’s Mike Golic said on Monday’s edition of “Golic and Wingo.”
“As much as everybody’s applauding you for taking over the narrative, you cost yourself. If your goal was to play football, in my opinion, you cost yourself by not performing in front of 25 teams,” the Cleveland native said.
“Congratulations, you controlled the narrative and then you basically said the NFL should stop running scared afterward. And I don’t think there is a team out there that is going to bring you in and sign you,” Golic said.
Later, on “Get Up,” former Jets head coach Rex Ryan said Kaepernick would be a too much of distraction in the locker room.
“The NFL doesn’t have to have this kid play. I’m sorry,” he said. “As a coach, you don’t want this circus in the locker room. And, I’m sorry, but that’s what it is. Is it going to be worth all the extra media? You’re going to have a backup quarterback having press conferences.”
“First Take” host Stephen A. Smith posted over the weekend on Twitter that he thought Kaepernick was more interested in “being a martyr” than an NFL quarterback. He also appeared on “Get Up,” saying Kaepernick canceling the NFL workout at the last minute in favor of his own an hour away was “clearly orchestrated.”
“It reeks of a PR stunt, a PR campaign, the kind you’ve accused the NFL of doing,” Smith said. “I want him in the league. I think what’s happened to him is unfair. But the manner in which he has handled this, if an NFL team never called him again, what can we say?”
On FS1′s “Undisputed,” Shannon Sharpe, who has been a big supporter of Kaepernick’s, said the quarterback blew his last chance to play in the NFL.
“You can showcase your talent for the media all you want to, you can try to appease your fanbase all you want to. But they will play no role in you getting a job,” he said. “Kap, you show up to a job interview with a Kunta Kinte shirt? You’re trying to antagonize... I get it, Kap keeping it real. Kap gonna keep it real and keep being unemployed.”
Ouch! Truth hurts!
Learn to code, Kap.
He's crying all the way to the bank.
I posted it just for that line.
“Sticking it to the owners” isn’t a good means of landing a job.
The boss normally makes the rules. It’s part of what makes a boss a boss.
What the NFL could offer for a 2nd rate 2nd string QB is chump change compared to him endorsing another shoe or shirt.
Stephen A. Smith and Shannon Sharpe do not strike me as MAGA hat wearing, stand for the anthem or else types.
And both seem to think he has blown any chance he had.
I think Mike Golic, Sr. may be the last rational person on that channel.
One NFL team will be forced to take him. The narrative would fall apart, if he was treated “equally” and rejected because of lack of talent and being a locker room cancer.
He’s a journeyman player. Such players are easily replaceable.
And as noted, this guy could be a bad influence in the locker room. I can easily imagine any team needing a back up quarterback, simply saying no.
He can NEVER EVER make what he would have in the NFL.
100s of millions compared to what?
No he’s just a d.ck.
According to celebrityworth.com
Colin Kaepernick net worth:
$20 Million
Colin Kaepernick’s Salary
$12.4 Million
Trump has unemployment so low that even Colin Kaepernick got a job interview
Wouldn't surprise me if people lobby for him to be inducted in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in another two years.
Send him to the Cleveland Browns. They are the thug team of the NFl
His workout was nothing but a stunt as proved by his moving it to a high school more than an hour away 30 minutes before it was scheduled to start. He had his own film crew to use for his political goals and getting back in football is the last thing he wants. He can’t continue to be a victim if he is on a roster somewhere.
Ouch! Truth hurts!
Learn to code, Kap.
Who cares? The guy is a freak look at him. He looks like something that crawled out of a lagoon in a 50s horror movie.
But in modern day America, Kaepernick has an constituency and audience. Hence this hateful man will find his niche and get paid from companies like Nike.
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