When Colin Kaepernick‘s choice to work out in Houston this week raised some eyebrows in the football world. We now know why he was in town. Texans owner Bob McNair was deposed on Friday in Kaepernick’s collusion lawsuit against the NFL and Kaepernick sat in on the deposition, according to Charles Robinson of Yahoo Sports (on Twitter).
Kaepernick, who was ranked as one of my ten best available quarterbacks before the start of free agency, has yet to receive any bites from teams as he continues his legal proceedings against the NFL.
Here’s more from the AFC:
- The Titans are after Ndamukong Suh and that could lead to a shakeup on the defensive line, as veteran NFL reporter Paul Kuharsky notes (on Twitter). The nose tackle is set to carry a $5MM base salary in 2018 and $2.5MM of that sum becomes fully guaranteed on Sunday. Williams would not only be redundant in the event of Suh signing – he’d also be taking of cap space that may need to be allocated for the former Dolphin.
- Free agent offensive tackle Matt Tobin met with the Patriots on Friday, Field Yates of ESPN.com tweets.
- The Broncos are working on re-signing free agent offensive lineman Billy Turner, sources tell Mike Klis of 9News (on Twitter).
who cares
Probably the person who commented
I heard the testimony was “Kaepernick isnt good at anything anymore except for complaining and stirring up drama. Why would we want a player like that? It’s not our fault that he sucks.”
yeah. probably said that he doesn’t want his prisoners to have their own opinions about the world.
Just like you aren’t good at using quotation marks and the space bar?
Internet Troll!
Lol wut
MilTown8888: “Kaepernick isnt good at anything anymore except for complaining and stirring up drama. Why would we want a player like that? It’s not our fault that he sucks.”
Except that he threw 16 touchdowns against four interceptions – that’s a four-to-one ratio – and had a 90.7 passer rating on a lousy team in his last extended duty, and ran 69 times, averaging 6.8 yards per carry and scored two TD’s. Yeah, he really sucks…
At this point why would someone want him? There’s going to be a media cloud that follows him. It’s unfortunate for him, but it would be a distraction
Teams put up with distractions all the time, from drug usage to domestic abuse. That’s not what’s holding the teams back. A few of them think he sucks as a player. A few are worried about how their fans and ticketholders would react. But from what I’ve read, I’d guess that around half of the franchises have owners or executives or head coaches who just hate the guy and consider him either un-American or anti-American. In other words, he’s on a blacklist, but luckilly, all he has to prove in his collusion trial is that as few as two teams have colluded in blackballing him. He doesn’t need to prove a league-wide conspiracy.
Show him the money, a**holes!
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The Texans owner said it was cordial but I doubt it when CK showed up wearing a black Kunta Kinte shirt. McNair probably soiled himself. I can hardly wait for Jerry Jones’s turn.
Way to be racist.
I wonder Kaepernick would be comfortable with a back-up job. Obviously the circus that would follow him would be too much for most teams to even consider it, but for the sake of argument, if they were okay with that would Kaepernick be satisfied taking a job where he is a back up and has no chance of starting barring an injury.
He has said he would be. And why do you think he’d have no chance of starting barring an injury to the starter? Not every team has a Tom Brady or a Russell Wilson starting. And again, teams put up with media circuses all the time. That’s not what is holding back most of the teams from even considering signing him.
I was referring to a circumstance where he is backing up Tom Brady of a Russell Wilson. Not that he is incapable of winning a starting job.
Thank you for the clarification.
The three teams that I can remember there being at least some chatter around were Baltimore (Flacco’s back issues, Mallett’s general low mediocrity), Seattle (his and Wilson’s relatively similar styles and the risk to Wilson of their atrocious offensive line) and Miami, which was actually, at the time, an example where I defended the hiring of a Jay Cutler over Kaepernick given the head coach’s past successful association with Cutler. The Jets and Browns were examples where he could and should have been brought in to challenge for the starting job, not to mention Denver and Green Bay after Rodgers went down and Hundley failed.
Why does anyone have to hire him? It’s their company, they can hire whom ever they want. The government needs to stay out of this. It’s truly none of their business! Maybe this person shouldn’t have opened his mouth and stirred the pot while at work??? We’d all lose our jobs if we did that!
Govt? Do you have ANY idea how the judicial system works? The Govt has NOTHING to do with this collusion case.
The internet Troll strikes again!
I wore buttons for all sorts of causes – from “England Out of Ireland” to “Justice for Harvey Milk,” from “End Apartheid in South Africa” to “Boycott Hormel and Spam” – on my job, but then I was represented by a union and had some rights at work. You might want to try it some time instead of justifying being a serf and taking whatever the bosses dish out all the time.
And collusion between employers, whether it involves price-fixing, wage-fixing (Apple and half of Silicon Valley, led by the great guru, himself, Steve Jobs) or blackballing workers, is illegal.
The whole this is pretty meaningless, if they don’t find collusion, which they won’t, they’ll just blame it on white owners and League whitewashing it, which isn’t true but they doesn’t matter to him or his people.
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All they need to do is find two teams to prove collusion, so I wouldn’t count them out, just yet. He’s on a blacklist not because a few teams think he’s a lousy QB, not because a few teams are actually worried about fan backlash, but because half of the teams have owners or execs or coaches that HATE. HIS. GUTS.
Hell, there are a lot of NFL owners dumber than Steve Jobs, and he had e-mails where he was talking about colluding to limit programmer wages – including specific people, if memory serves – in Silicon Valley.
Collin was stupid to open up his mouth while making millions. Once his career was over , he could have made his statement in so many other ways. He screwed himself! Racism is alive in America and taking a knee did nothing to change awareness. It just made people look un-American.
He was stupid for opting out of a contract and then suing the league for not offering him another one.
Except, Mr. or Ms. Hammer, that it was either opt out or accept being cut. He would have been out of a job in any case, and just as blackballed.
It was his choice to opt out and his dumbassed agents choice to rework his contract prior to that to make it that way. He should sue his agent.
Who is Collin?
Okay, Mr. Kaner, so that’s your advice to folks who see something wrong with the world: Be a coward, shut up and take the money, and then come out as having principles when you can’t be hurt for having them.
Matt Birk refused to visit the White House after the Ravens won Super Bowl 47 because he is anti-abortion and then-President Obama was not. Granted, his career was ending, but his prior activism around that issue didn’t seem to hurt his career. Nor did Mark Bavaro lose his job or find it impossible to get a new one when he joined in an Operation Rescue blockade of a New York City abortion clinic in 1988. I would no more tell Birk or Bavarao to shut up, take the money, and only speak out when their careers were over than I would Kaepernick, and I have a hell of a lot more sympathy for his views than theirs.
CFL kap you can kneel for the Canadian National anthem and get paid.