The Morning Briefing: Inevitable-Everyone Hates Kaepernick Now

PJ Media ^ | NOVEMBER 18, 2019 | STEPHEN KRUISER

[conservative98]

He Finally Did It

In the three years since Colin Kaepernick knelt his way off of the San Francisco 49ers and out of the National Football League, the one thing the drama has lacked is ambivalence. People either hated him or viewed him as social hero who was being mistreated and prevented from playing the game he loves.

 Now everybody just hates him.

Throughout his supposedly unwanted hiatus from football, Kaepernick and those representing him have insisted that he is staying in playing shape and merely wanted a chance to showcase his skills for a team.

Last week, the NFL offered him that chance. The Nike hero was supposed to work out for twenty-five teams in Atlanta last Saturday.

As most of you probably know by now, the workout was derailed a bit because Kaepernick did what he truly does best: act like an insufferable primadonna.

At 2:30 p.m. Eastern time, with about two dozen scouts waiting at the Falcons’ facility, Kaepernick announced that the workout would be moved to a high school an hour away. Many scouts threw up their arms and headed straight to the airport. Dozens of reporters and cameramen drove south to the high school field.

The NFL -- which often gets things like this wrong -- responded like adults, but if you read between the lines here, you can see that they’re really over Kaepernick:

[MV=PY]

http://www.nfl.com/player/colinkaepernick/2495186/careerstats

[rlmorel]

“You have the right to be a DoucheBag. You have the right to be a Talentless Hack. You have the right to be a Diva. You have the right to be an Ignorant Race Baiter. You have the right to be represented by a Money Grubbing, Race Baiting Attorney. Anything you say and do may and will be used against you in the Court of Public Opinion.”

[outofsalt]

FWIW, I didn’t used to hate Nike.

[richardtavor]

wow. Football is supposed to be a team sport. If I were a lineman on the team that hired him, I would let the guy across from me come across the line, unapposed, every time. When he dragged his sorry butt off the ground, I would agree with him that he doesn’t need anybody but himself....what an racist, selfish ass.

[texas booster]

Yep. Wouldn't be the first pro athlete with decent physical skills to lose a job due to the game being too fast.

And he wouldn't be the first athlete to hang on long after his expiration date.

He wouldn't even be a trivia question if it wasn't for his girlfriend, the (wayy) left wing Pax Pacifica personality, crying racism.

[Colt1851Navy]

Capernik wouldn’t make a pimple on Slinging Sammy Baugh’s rear end on Caper’s best day.

[a fool in paradise]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuEY9imwkfU

[rlmorel]

He had a couple of good seasons when he burst onto the scene, and was doing something that not many quarterbacks have been doing and defenses weren’t trained to handle him. But defenses in the following seasons caught up until it became clear that the unique tool he had (his legs and the plays that leveraged them) could be defensed, and he was no good at reading defenses or doing anything other than delivering a high and fast ball, ie, he had no touch. Couldn’t deliver the short pass.

His deficiencies were exposed, he became toxic as a player with his political stances, he cost the league tens of millions of dollars, and it became clear he wasn’t worth the trouble.

Everyone saw it but him and his sycophants and fellow race-baiters.

The Owners, General Managers, and coaches around the league saw it though.

[duckman]

“Actually the only reason he was liked was because he was the starting QB for the Niners.”

I believe his last couple of seasons with the 49’ers didn’t go that well, and he was doomed to being traded,( my words).

[Howie66]

That’s the truth!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

This farce of a “workout” was never about getting a job in the NFL. It was only ever about face time and an attempt to keep himself relevant. Oops. Failz.

[lodi90]

The NFL is like 70% black players and the owners are terrified of them.

[rlmorel]

Here is a more technical explanation for the thread. I posted this a while back about Kaepernick but took a minute to change some minute wording to account for the present/past tense so it makes for easier reading.

People who are causal football fans (or not even fans) may rightly wonder why nobody ever signed him...after all, he did have a pretty good year once or twice and did make it to a Super Bowl...if he did that as a starter, surely someone would take a flyer on him.

This post below, while a bit long, is a summary of the football perspective that explains why he has never found another job:

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WHY COLIN KAEPERNICK MAY NEVER PLAY A DOWN OF USEFUL FOOTBALL AGAIN

I heard a great explanation from Scott Zolak (former Patriots quarterback) on Boston radio on why Colin Kaepernick is unemployed. I have to paraphrase a bit here, because I don't have the transcript.

Granted, Zolak was never great shakes as a quarterback, he simply wasn't as gifted as you need to be to make a poor team a competitive or good one, but he worked hard, is able to see the issues with Kaepernick, and has talked with other quarterbacks off the record about Kaepernick's strengths and weaknesses, so I think his insight is worth considering.

When Kaepernick came into the league, and started the last five games of the 2012 season, the San Francisco offense was built to exploit him using the read option. It hadn't been used in the pros as more than a novelty or gimmick, he was tearing up a league that wasn't ready for him. He was nearly unstoppable because defenses hadn't paid attention to the scheme.

But eventually teams figure you out. Zolak talked about how after other teams had enough film on Kaepernick and the option, coaches 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 (by the end of 2014/beginning of 2015 seasons) Kaepernick's days were numbered. He just didn't (and doesn't) know it.

Once teams figured out how to defend that, Kaepernick 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 Kaepernick lacks two major assets to make that work.

WHAT CRUCIAL SKILLS Kaepernick LACKS TO BE AN NFL QUARTERBACK:

1.) He has very little consistent “touch”. He could throw long bombs, but anything else would more often get delivered, inaccurately, at high velocity. He had and has very little "touch" (throwing nuance) for a quarterback that could be engaged consistently.

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. Kaepernick looks. He can't break the habit. And defensive backs got the book on him. The defensive coaches said: "Watch the helmet stripe."

In summary: Kaepernick 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. When he goes to his safety valve (usually a running backing the flat) after his initial reads fail, that back is dependent on getting the ball delivered in a way that allows him to catch it in the simplest possible way so he can begin running, usually because someone is on him immediately. Often there are defenders nearby, so the quarterback may have to loft the ball a little to clear outstretched arms. Kaepernick can do neither of these, so the ball arrives at the safety valve running back too hot to catch, or the ball is batted down by a defensive player. That's Kaepernick the quarterback in a nutshell.

And there are more impediments for him:

NON PERFORMANCE REASONS Kaepernick IS NOT SUITED FOR AN NFL ROSTER SPOT, EVEN AS A BACKUP:

1.) He fits very few schemes. At one time, 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 a few years back. The guy they had at the time, 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 as a quarterback, but was a better fit.

2.) His off field BS does have an effect. Backups should be invisible, create no waves. Any team that signs Kapernick will have a circus on his hands. Not worth it.

Think about it from the perspective of a manager hiring a person. If you were going to hire someone, and they had a history of public conflicts and legal conflicts over personal issues that ended up in papers or in courts, would you hire him, even if he was better than some bland person with 90% of the skillset the problematic person offered? Of course not. You are going to hire the bland person who works hard, keeps his head down, and does his work, even if it is only 90% as good. That last 10% of lost ability is EASILY made up via "addition via subtraction".

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. That is more important to him than football.

So, when the GM or Coach is told to evaluate Colin Kaepernick for their team they watch the film on him, look at his toxic personality and issues:

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 played.

[a fool in paradise]

They want promotion in the organization after they no longer play the game and the corporation is fighting that.

[Lopeover]

Kaepernick is hated by JayZ who went out on a limb for him with the NFL, and this event was the result. A number of SJWs wanted him back playing football.

[jjotto]

Average NFL career is 3-4 years. CK got his.

[xp38]

The only NIKE product I have is a pair of hand me down gym pants. Should I toss it, deface the logo (it’s small at the base of one leg) or wear them til they die.

[gundog]

[Politically Correct]

Watch it again...he says 15% not 50%.
And the boycott won't be effective because there are few black men paying any attention to these guys.

[RoosterRedux]

Kaepernick and those representing him have insisted that he is staying in playing shape

I think one has to play to stay in playing shape even if some of that play is only in practice with teammates.