Posted on 11/18/2019 8:19:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind
After capitulating to mounting pressure from Colin Kaepernick and his political base, the NFL announced that they would organize a private workout for the former quarterback, whose absence from the league since 2016 has been at the center of an ongoing feud. His advocates argue, without any evidence, that the refusal of all NFL teams to sign Kaepernick is a symptom of white supremacy in action. Anyone with any understanding of statistics or private enterprise understand that the true reason for Kaepernick’s free agency is the fact that he is a demonstrably average quarterback.
Kaepernick’s supporters, who demand that the NFL provide him with employment, see his repeated failure, both as a player and a leader, as an irrelevant detail. They do not see the NFL - or other professional leagues - as meritocracies which are intentionally blind to political orientation, and view their insistence on rewarding success and punishing failure as a tool of suppression. When you reject the fundamental premise of professional sports in favor of aggressive politicization, the metric of success is no longer sporting prowess, but activism.
The private session provided by the NFL would have allowed Kaepernick an on-field workout and an interview, with video footage made available to every team. The NFL practically bent over backwards to cater to Kaepernick, with the obvious goal of enabling his re-entry into the league. This would seem like an astonishing opportunity to anyone who claimed to be motivated solely by their desire to play professional sports.
Instead of attending the private workout at the Atlanta Falcons’ practice facility, Kaepernick cancelled the session thirty minutes before it was scheduled to begin and announced that he would conduct his own workout at Drew High School in Riverdale, Georgia. As final proof of his true intentions, Kaepernick wore a “Kunta Kinte” t-shirt during the session. Apparently, the voluntary rejection of an opportunity to demonstrate sporting ability is equivalent to the brutal treatment of slaves dragged to the United States from Africa.
Kaepernick has proved to us, yet again, that he is motivated exclusively by his narcissistic activism for which his continued state of assumed victimhood is a vital component. He must remain in a perpetual state of victimhood - even if this means repeatedly rejecting the opportunity to avoid such alleged “ill treatment” - if his activism is to be taken seriously by his “woke” support base.
The reason Kaepernick relies heavily on his pre-emptive and self-prescribed victimhood status is that he is fully aware of his own limited abilities in the apolitical realm of sports, with his workout performance described as “average.” Anyone who still believes that Kaepernick has a right to employment in one of the most competitive athletic organizations in the world despite his demonstrated mediocrity are not interested in sports. They only wish to hijack the platform of professional sports to further their own political objectives. Kaepernick is a willing participant who is trying to use activism as a proxy for talent. The fact that his protests only began after his career began to disintegrate is further proof that he is trying to leverage the politicization of every element of our society to his advantage.
Kaepernick has shown time after time that he is only interested in playing football on his terms, where his historically-average performances are forgiven in favor of his political views. The success of professional sports is built upon a non-political meritocracy where success is rewarded and failure is punished. If we allow the woke Left to monopolize sports for their own cynical political objectives, we will be conceding the very nature of professional sports to an audience who couldn’t care less about football, basketball, baseball, hockey, or even soccer. If they cared about football, they would understand that having a bottom-of-the-league 59.2% pass completion rate and throwing 2,241 passing yards doesn’t give you the right to demand employment when your primary role involves throwing a football.
If Kaepernick wants to continue kneeling to protest supposed police brutality and systemic racism, that is his prerogative under the First Amendment. However, until the woke Left can point to the line in the Constitution or Bill of Rights which guarantees an NFL roster spot for a quarterback who can’t throw a football, Kaepernick will have to continue to earn millions of dollars for “sacrificing everything,” even if his supporters refuse to acknowledge that his is actively trying to avoid sacrificing anything.
Just like Kunta Kinte?
He would be a corrosive influence on team cohesiveness and morale.
Nothing else need be considered.
Far, far, far below average quarterback.
For some more commetary (some pretty funny) on this special camp (which I don’t recall the assclown nfl doing for anyone else) go here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3794544/posts
I believe I read someplace they support him, so...........
in the NFL...these “running” qb’s get figured out pretty quick....they cant read defenses quick enough and just take off running...they never last.
From what they showed of his throwing, before they moved the cameras, he couldn’t hit the receivers. I would not even call him average. There was no one defending.
he was an average QB, certainly not a star talent...
he had a very very good job and he deliberately destroyed it for himself
he didn’t just once accidentally make a mistake
he acted intentionally and contemptuously
(and besides, insulting your paying customers/fans is never a great success strategy, ha!)
The dude beside him looks very unhappy.
If it's about race - FINE - then 70% of all players MUST be WHITE. YOU can't have it both ways Kaepernick - it's either political or merit... it's NOT activism bullying so whatever 'team' Kaepernick is on gets the 'win'...
Calling this guy average is a compliment
Colin believed that his SJW stats would get him a better deal, that is why he left the 49ers. It did not happened. If someone gave him that advice, they were a bigger fool then Colin was.
NFL cares about your athletic stats/ability/wins/losses, the SJW crap means nothing to a winning team. If this guy was an above average quarterback, he would have been playing by now.
Colin just needs to face the fact that he is retired from the NFL. Go find something else to do or destroy.
I’d like to see Kaepernick re-enter the league: fumble on the first series, throw and interception on the second, and have his head taken off on the third.
The story going around behind closed doors in the offices of NFL teams is that there’s a general consensus among team owners and GMs that Colin Kaepernick has no interest in playing pro football anymore.
Sounds right, I think he is doing this stuff to keep his name relevant. He is looking commercial spots, etc (the easy money)
He was on the low end of average when he was let go... After 3 years of not playing in the league... I’d say odds are he is well below that....
NFL should be ashamed of themselves for even giving this bozo the time of day...they are only not just starting to recover from the damage this buffoon did to their brand.
Once the defense took away his primary receiver, he sucked.... Pretty much as you pointed out....
He was a low average QB at the time he was let go....
And after 3 years of not playing I am sure he’s less than that....
NFL were beyond dumb to give this guy the time of day... they are only JUST starting to recover from the damage he did to their brand...
I see what you did there....
Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!
Well why wouldn’t he think it would up his chances? After all a guy who didn’t deserve anything on merit came out and got a deal just because he came out.. of course he never made it to actual play in a real game because he wasn’t good enough... and eventually wound on someones practice squad for a bit before being gone all together...
NFL pandered with that draft... so he thought he could get some too..
Lord knows I haven’t bought anything NIKE since they got involved with this buffoon... but I’m sure NIKE is fine with that.... after all, who wants a customer???
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