Posted on 08/10/2017 4:11:51 AM PDT by C19fan
I mean, he’s not wrong. It definitely would have an impact on the fan base. The NFL as we know it is going away sooner or later. Why not have it go sooner, in a burst of social-justice glory? Via the IJR:
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It isn’t that the NFL has become political so much as the side they have chosen. Why would they side with the same idiots who want to shut them down? Then they complain?
This safe-helmet might come....but by the time you figure the cost, and the court fights on high school football, NCAA football, and pro-ball....it’ll be too late. You could be looking at tens of billions to pay off the lawyers and players. TV advertising will never be able to pay enough for the NCAA or NFL to survive this...my humble opinion.
Do it. Help society end the public funds/SJW ripoff that is the NFL. They have chosen the wrong side as well as sucked too much public funding.
Bayless is the idiot who wrote about the Cowboy’s QB, Troy Aikman, that he was gay based on total hearsay and lies. He is a bozo, first class.
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I can imagine that such an attitude would not be suffered much on some teams, especially the Cowboys. I’d think that they’d find capable replacements quite easily.
Colin Kapernick unemployed?
How could a superstar like that be unemployed, who Ron Jaworksi opined could end up as the greatest quarterback of all time (A statement for Jaworski very much like General Lewis Armistead’s hand on the cannon at Gettysburg! Some might say it was all downhill for Ron Jaworski after that...:)
So, how could this player Colin Kapernick, who advanced with his team to the Super Bowl, end up as a bum? Has to be racism, right? (When you are a nail, everything else looks like a hammer to you.)
I heard a great explanation from Scott Zolak on Boston radio on why Colin Kapernick is unemployed. I have to paraphrase a bit here, because I don’t have the transcript.
When he was inserted into the starting role to replace Alex Smith at the end of the 2012 season, the San Francisco offense was well suited to exploit him, using the read option, as it was a fad beginning in 2008 - 2009, and until 2012-2013 it hadn’t been used in the pros except as a gimmick mostly. Kapernick at the end of 2012 and into 2013 was tearing up a league that wasn’t ready for him. He was unstoppable when he came in for Alex Smith at the end of the 2012 season.
But eventually teams figure you out. Once they had a full season (2013) of film on him, the writing was on the wall. And after the 2013 season which was his professional best from a win-loss perspective, San Francisco pushed all their chips onto the table and signed Kapernick to a big contract, one that would cause them many headaches in the future.
And then the bottom fell out. The NFL figured out how to defend him, and he wasn’t talented enough (in pure quarterbacking skills) to adapt to a different style of play. That’s it, pure and simple.
Zolak talked about how after the rest of the league had film on Kapernick, defenses would widen the tackles, putting them further off center, getting linebackers to fill the gaps, and taking a more patient approach, steering the quarterback into lanes where they would be able to tackle him. (Zolak says that defensive coordinators don’t get enough credit for that aspect of the game. The negative performance is often heaped on the quarterback, when the truth is, defensive coordinators get paid to figure out ways to neutralize opponents strengths. And it is a copy cat league. One team does it...they all do it. It is a scheme adjustment, and once they figured it out, Kapernick’s days were numbered. He just didn’t (and doesn’t) know it.
Once teams figured out how to defend that, Kapernick realized he wouldn’t be able to run anymore, and his coaches knew it too, they knew he had to become more of a pocket quarterback.
But he lacked two major assets to make that work:
1.) He had (and has) no touch. He could throw long bombs, but anything else would get delivered, inaccurately, at high velocity/low trajectory. He had (and has) zero touch or finesse for a professional pocket quarterback.
2) He can’t read a defense. Zolak said the book on him was to simply watch him when he got the ball and dropped back. Watch the stripe on his helmet. When he gets the ball snapped to him, he looks to the right or the left. Good quarterbacks like Brady, Rodgers and Brees look straight up the field when they get the ball. Kapernick looks to where he is going to throw, and apparently, nothing has changed and he cannot break the habit. And defensive backs got the book on him: Watch the stripe at snap, you know which side of the field he is going to.
Kapernick cuts the field in half for the defenders. And when he can’t get the first read, he is lost. He can’t progress through his reads and what makes it even worse for him, he has no touch, so dumping it off is a real challenge. He is hot and inaccurate on those kinds of passes.
Now, add on the following elements for a potential backup job:
1.) He fits very few schemes. Seattle might have been a backup spot, but he was apparently asking $9 million a year. This is the precise reason Miami didn’t sign him. Cutler has his issues, but he is a plug-and-play guy for the Dolphins. They would have had to completely revamp their offense for Kapernick. Not enough time. Cutler with his issues is a better fit.
2.) His off field BS does have an effect. Backups should be invisible, create no waves. Kapernick will be pursued after any team activity, and it will be a circus. Not worth it.
Lastly, in my opinion, he is a douche. Wearing the Fidel shirt just confirmed for me what I already knew. I don’t think he is a particularly bright guy, and to make it worse, he has a woman leading him willingly around to use him as a social justice tool.
In short, he is a muscular specimen, tall, fast, can throw the long ball, is inaccurate and helpless on short and intermediate passes, and is a dimwit to boot.
Nope. Not worth it. I think he won’t play again in this league, even if someone gets desperate. And it won’t be because he is being blackballed.
It will be because, in today’s NFL...he simply cannot play the game it is being paid, and he is more interested in the Social Justice BS than working at changing his game and learning how to read defenses.
Not when the Raiders are peaking !!!
Completely agree.
First, at best...he’s back-up material, and I wouldn’t offer him more than $2.5 mil a year.
Second, I would insert a line into the contract that says if any knee comes down in support of some social justice gimmick...you go to half-pay for the remainder of the season.
Third, if I were to predict how this goes....about six weeks into the season...some team will have a big injury situation and likely go to procure him for a highly reduced salary. He’s got probably one single season left in him at best.
The cold hard truth of the matter is CK is a B-list QB at best. His stats, his skills on the field are middle of the road for NFL QBs. Sure, they are good enough to keep him in the league - he'd be a decent backup QB behind a franchise QB.
His non-football related actions and statements however have made him positively toxic. No owner or GM wants to touch him. He would be a divisive force in any locker room.
If he were a truly gifted QB, a far end of the bell curve stand out... Maybe, maybe someone might take a chance on him, see if they could rein him in and get him focused back on a professional career instead of staring in his own un-reality show. But he is no-where near that inate talent level and lacks a work-ethic that would ever bring his learned skills close to that level.
I believe he has been in the league long enough to realize he was never going to have the career nor fame he desired. So here he is now, getting his 10 minutes in via other means. His football career is over. I would be surprised if he ever takes another snap.
Bayless is a typical liberal. “With my guilt and your gelt, we can do anything!” The players would lose money, their careers might be ruined but Bayless but get some very temporary relief from his neurotic mindlessness. Nevertheless the pressure on the NFL is immense and there is little doubt the the politically correct spineless Commissioner Godel is trying to force a team to sign this creep.
Completely agree.
“Hiring him would be like hiring Lena Dunham as head hostess at a Hooters franchise. It would be a bad business decision.”
Beautiful. Early candidate for post of the day.
That's a great point and a subtlety sports commentators will never get.
Well said...well said.
People have a right to express themselves. But if they are doing it while in a role as an employee, the company also has a right not to have them reflect poorly on them.
I pretty much guarantee, if the dimwit had done this on his own time, nothing would have been made of it. It would have simply been another brain-dead athlete taking up a stupid, baseless, cause on their own time. Sports is full of those.
But you work for fictional John Smith, who depends on Americans buying his product, and you put on the recognizable, iconic Red Blazer (associated by Americans with the John Smith Company) and you go on national television and do things that will become negatively associated with the John Smith Company, (and the John Smith iconic Red Blazer) John Smith (if HE has half a brain) is going to fire you tout suite.
And that is how it should be.
Bayless quotes (for which he got paid!):
“The Houston Texans will forever regret it if they do not take Johnny Manziel with the No. 1 overall pick. He will haunt them.”
“Long term give me Josh Freeman over Cam [Newton]. Better leader, more consistent passer, more clutch, more poised under fire, more careful with ball.”
“Browns just stole a starting QB: Brandon Weeden. Much better than Tannehill. Will soon beat out Colt, have 6-7 good yrs. TRich AND Weeden!”
And there are plenty more like those.
^^^^ yeah me too....
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