Posted on 05/11/2021 2:06:04 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
As liberals continue to attack the Jacksonville Jaguars and Tim Tebow over supposed “white privilege,” they ignore the fact that Colin Kaepernick made a mockery of the NFL’s offer to continue his career.
Twitter went wild on Monday when news broke that the Jags were set to give Tebow a shot at renewing his pro football career. Many leftists accused the NFL of indulging “white privilege” for allowing Tebow to get another shot at the NFL while Colin Kaepernick remains unsigned.
But what these detractors have ignored to push their narrative is that Colin Kaepernick refused repeated opportunities to continue his NFL career.
Indeed, when he turned free agent in 2017, Kaepernick turned down an offer from the San Francisco 49ers to stay with them. Kaepernick decided not to return to the 49ers and to offer his services to the league as a free agent.
That was not the only chance Kaepernick had to continue his football career. In 2018, for instance, John Elway revealed that the Denver Broncos offered Kaepernick a contract that the national anthem protester turned down.
The two offers above, though, are the least of them. In 2019, the NFL bent over backward to offer Kaepernick a workout to prove that he was still ready to play. However, despite the generous offer made only to help Kaepernick get his career back on track, he refused the league’s offer to work out in front of team representatives and, instead, set up his own workout at which few team reps attended.
Kaepernick’s stunt seemed to prove that all Colin Kaepernick wants is a platform to speak out about his social issues instead of an opportunity to prove he is still ready to play pro football. Meanwhile, Tim Tebow just wants to play football.
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Watch me turn down the 49ers, the Broncos, and also blow off a team tryout and get a huge contract!
This is the dumbest things I have ever heard. It’s all white privilege for a league that barely has any white people playing in it. So stupid.
Colon Kraponastik? Nobody cares anymore. Hell, hardly anybody cared then.
If it wasn’t for the ridiculous media giving him a soapbox, he’d have run out of football money and would now be selling cars in the San Fernando Valley somewhere
I’ve been wondering what he’s been doing to keep his tossing arm in shape.
Take a knee Kaepernick, it’s what you do best.
I bet that afro tickles his boyfriends belly.
leftists are the most hate filled people ever created
Kapernick is a dope who is led around by the nose by his Marxist commie gf.
He doesn’t know anything but he knows to avoid actually trying to earn his way to a NFL contract.
After some early success, the NFL coaches designed defenses to reduce his effectiveness. It was so successful, he crashed and burned hard. San Francisco moved him to third string.
Even so, they offered to renew his contract. He walked. As a free agent his NFL “career” tanked.
He’s been doing nothing but getting free publicity for commies ever since.
Tim Tebow on the other hand is just a great American an even nicer man.
Tagline. Read.
Maybe Colon K. figured out he can make more money from being a perpetual victim, instead of a football player?
Krap had the chance to be a backup qb and he refused...
Kraperfink tried to change the venue demo location about an hour before start time. All those NFL team Reps who traveled there to see him at a specific location and start time got dissed. Wasted trips, time and resources. Who wants to hire such a fool for a prestigious skilled position on an NFL team? He Krapped on his own chances only himself to blame.
Kapernut is a typical liberal....he’d rather have the issue than the solution.
Additionally, Tebow’s one-year contract is for $600K guaranteed. This is the NFL MINIMUM. There are playtime and performance bonuses built into the contract as well.
Anyone think Colon would accept a contract like that? Not in your dreams. He would use such a contract offer to make even more noise about the NFL being RACIST!!!
In 2012, SF finished 11-4-1. Kaepernick's started the final 7 games. He was 25. They lost in the Super Bowl. Amazing start, amazing PR for any young QB. Yay!
In 2013, SF finished 12-4. Kaepernick did well, but not as well as 2012. Most interesting is that in their 12 wins, Kaep had a QBR of 90.8. In their losses, his QBR was 10.8.
In 2014, SF finished 8-8. Kaep had more INTs and fewer TDs than 2013.
Coach Jim Harbaugh leaves the team to go to Michigan.
In 2015, without Harbaugh, the Niners go 5-11. Kaep is injured in Week 9. They went 2-6 until then. They went 3-5 under Gabbert. Got that? They IMPROVED under Blaine freaking Gabbert.
In 2016, Blaine Gabbert was the starting QB, ahead of a healthy Kaepernick!! Kaep was a backup for a poor Niners squad until Week 6. He starts 11 games, LOSING EVERY GAME except a 1 point win over the equally pathetic Rams. The Niners finish 2-14, with both wins against that Rams team.
Kaepernick's numbers for QB Rating, Completion percentage, attempts per INT, etc were all WORSE than Blaine Gabbert's... behind the SAME Offensive Line, using the SAME playbook. Kaep's stats were in the Bottom Three in most categories for 2015 and 2016. He was a miserably poor QB by every measure.
With Coach Harbaugh, Kaep went 31-16.
Without Harbaugh, he went 3-16.
Got that? 28 fewer wins for the same number of losses!!
So... FIVE YEARS AGO, he was a washed up backup QB, in the bottom 3 of many major statistical categories. Since then, he has not played a single down. He is not 25 anymore, when he was in the Super Bowl. He is not 29 anymore, when he went 1-10, and was being out-performed by journeyman Blaine Gabbert on his own team. He is now THIRTY FOUR, when most non-elite QBs retire at about age 32. He is out of shape, out of practice, he is older and slower, and he has only 3 victories in the last SEVEN YEARS.
Leaving aside the fact that his political stances will clearly lose any team some part of their fan base, and leaving aside the fact that the Woke Sports Icons (like LeBron) are watching their sports ratings fall like a brick, you STILL have ZERO reason to give this has-been more than a polite chuckle when someone asks if you're interested in them. Race has nothing to do with it. There are 9 black starting QBs for the 32 NFL teams... meaning that blacks are already FAR overrepresented as a percentage of the US population (28% vs 13%).
This race-baiting garbage should simply be scoffed at and ignored when it has zero relation to reality and common sense.
Several months ago, Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll did an interview where he whined and moaned wishing Seattle had signed Kapernick, blah blah blah. It was pathetic - I thought he might start lactating or something. I used to like the guy, long ago.
Let those bastards pile on Tebow some more. The only reason the Heisman Trophy winner and winner of TWO National Football Championships, and some pro Play off games as a QB, is that he was not ashamed to proclaim his Christian Faith! OMG. What a show boat. The totally Godlessness of the Media . NFL and so-called sports media is astonishing. Persecution for religious beliefs. Wow. That’s a new one. The Inquisition meets cancel culture.
Unless of course it is their solution, which only creates more and larger problems
Kapernick isn’t a liberal. Not in any usage of the word, past or present.
He’s the tool of Leftists. His gf is a commie. She “infected” him.
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