Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll and general manager John Schneider were deposed in the collusion grievance filed by Colin Kaepernick this week, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter (Twitter link).
Expanding on the subject, Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio recounts that the “Seahawks were planning to bring in the quarterback for a workout, but the team canceled the session when Kaepernick declined to commit to stand for the national anthem.”
Despite the case, Carroll has not closed the door on the former 49ers quarterback joining the team. As Florio writes, however, “It would be awkward, to say the least, for Kaepernick to sign with Seattle after his lawyers questioned Schneider and Carroll under oath…”
Seattle is still the only team to have brought Kaepernick in for a visit since hitting free agency after the 2016 season. This long saga still appears to be far from a conclusion.
Here’s more from around the NFL:
- Earlier this week, the Raiders signed longtime Chiefs linebacker Derrick Johnson to a one-year deal. The details of that contract came out today, with the 13-year pro set to make $1.5MM. The contract includes a $200,000 signing bonus and $500,000 total guaranteed. With incentives, the deal could top out at $2.25MM, NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero tweets.
- Former Browns receiver Greg Little appeared at the Cardinals rookie minicamp, Kyle Odegard of azcardinals.com writes. Little, who hasn’t played a game since the 2014 season, was a promising second-round pick who flamed out after three seasons. The Cardinals offered the 28-year-old wideout a tryout this weekend and impressed new head coach Steve Wilks.
- ESPN’s Dan Graziano took a crack at projecting the next big-money quarterbacks. To no one’s surprise, Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers tops the list in 2020, but the sides are expected to come to a deal before that time. Among the other signal-callers who could surpass Kirk Cousins‘ big deal are Russell Wilson, Carson Wentz and Jimmy Garoppolo.
This “saga” was over a long time ago. All the defense has to do is show the judge the years of kaepernick game film and his failure to develop the skills needed to go with his tremendous athletic ability.
Actually, in order to prove collusion you have to be able to prove there was a coordinated effort to deny Kaepernick any chance at a job in the league.
The burden of proof is on the plaintiff’s lawyers. It be like the anchovy business suing pizza makers for not buying their product and saying, “It’s a conspiracy! They’re all doing the same thing- ergo, they’re all in on it together.” Is it true? No. It’s just nobody likes anchovies.
Sounds like you took the anchovies too literal. #BustAKaepInGameFilm
I think it’s hilarious that predraft, everybody was salivating over Josh Allen and when you look at him skill wise…he’s Kaepernick, and people on here say Kaep sucks. Funny how peoples minds work 🙂
Allen is 21 and has time to develop, Kaepernick never did develops it’s really not that hilarious.
Your mind isn’t working. Kaepernick and Allen’s game are nothing alike.
Really like the pizza analogy
Anchovies can suck but in your analogy, people are putting much worse things on their pizza. I’d say Kaep is more like pineapple, people either completely hate him or love him. And that teams are putting anchovies on their pizza, and Kaep is sitting there wondering why everyone is hating on pineapples while they eat up all the anchovies.
“Actually, in order to prove collusion you have to be able to prove there was a coordinated effort to deny Kaepernick any chance at a job in the league.”
Yes, true, but by as few as only two teams.
Greg Little had hands of stone and seemingly celebrated after every catch, even if it was on a 3 yard slant route…his numbers don’t look terrible but man was he a bad receiver.
He’s actually celebrating your comment right now.
What a farce! Let’s look at the timeline for Kaepernick. He was in the option year of a contract year. He thought he was worth more than he was getting paid. He didn’t keep it quiet that he wanted out of San Fran and wanted to get paid more than he $14M he was to get. He figured let me make myself a pain to the organization in preseason so they’ll either trade or release me. Didn’t work as hey kept him and his play suffered. He opts out at end of the year and figures the offers would come pouring in, they didn’t. He turned down an offer to be a backup QB because he says he’s only a starting QB. If he was confident he would take the offer and prove to the organization he should start. Now it’s everyone else looking to keep him out of the league? Please, before, during and after this whole ‘revelation’ how much has he done to improve he situations he’s ‘fighting’ against? Not much other than a few speeches, and one $200,000 donation. Let’s remember Colin grew up in a wealthy bi-racial family and has never had to face the things that minorities have had to experience growing up in poverty stricken areas. If he was serious about this he would be doing more, being out there trying to right the wrongs he sees, not worrying about getting a starting QB job.
I dig it
Making yourself “a pain to the organization” does NOT get you more money. It doesn’t matter what his background was growing up, or how much money he has, he is a black man and is standing up against the injustices that the black community faces. Like getting shot by cops for no reason. If you’re trying to say he knelt for the anthem for money, then why mention that he grew up rich? You literally proved that he doesn’t need the money. He is donating millions of dollars to charities and spending time in communities with underprivileged children because the United States won’t provide any resources for them. They’d rather spend money on missiles than education and urban development. So you could say Colin Kaepernick is doing more for underprivileged people than the US Government. It’s just ridiculous that you’re saying he knelt to get paid more. If that’s how it worked, every player would be kneeing. What really happened is the two guys who knelt first, and the most often, have no jobs. That’s a lot less than they were both making the year prior huh?
By that comment the same case could be made for Tim Tebow… this isn’t about the anthem it’s about a quarterback who was propped up believed the hype and now can’t come to terms with the fact he isn’t great! Maybe ole Colin should try baseball
First off if you read my post and actually understood what I said, I said he was attempting to get either released or traded from the 49ers. I never said he was trying to get more money from them. He opted out in the blind faith that he was going to get a big contract from another team OTHER than the 49ers.
Also, for you fact that he donated ‘millions’ of dollars to charity supporting his cause you couldn’t be further from the truth. He by his own admission stated he donated a little over $200,000 to charities that support his stance. This is a far cry from the $39.4 million he earned in the last 3 years of his contract.
Also you say he is a black man standing up for injustices against black men. Let’s set the record straight, he is BI -racial, having a white mother and a black father. Therefore he is both white and black. As for the injustices? Have you ever heard him speak on specifics that he is educated about? I haven’t? This is the same man who when going to Miami to negotiate a potential contract wore a Fidel Castro T-shirt to the meeting and at his news conference. Do you or he realize that Miami has a large population of. Cubans who fled Cuba because of Castro and his oppression of his people? So he’s showing support for a man who killed, imprisoned and oppressed his own people, but yet on the other hand is preaching to change just that here? A little hypocritical don’t you think? So before you just make this a black/white issue with CK, look at the facts and the hypocrisy behind his actions.
Kap grew up in a white house with adoptive parents. He took his adoptive parents last name. My daughter’s OBGyn is related to him through the adoptive parents. I don’t remember how. She has the same last name.
The majority of the money he donated was through Jersey sales. His jersey sales picked up so he decided to donate the money he got from that to charity not really money out of his pocket. I also heard he was donating some other money out of his own pocket to charity but have no idea if he did.
As a fan watching him play at least twice a year I could see his flaws. Not saying I am on NFL scout level but he had big flaws. Could only make 1 read etc. Teams figured him out. He was easy once you took his running lanes away. He can blame everyone else for his failures but he never worked to improve his game. Now he is suing because he can’t take the blame. It is always someone else’s fault.
For Seattle, no good deed goes unpunished.
I like my chicken baked not fried.
Very spoiled and very stupid!
He’s better than Flacco, and Flacco is making 20+ mil and starting.
Exactly
You must be Kapernicus’ boyfriend dude. Wow.
Kapernick and Rosen do not have similar abilities.
Deposed? Look at all the time, money, and effort being wasted on a Clown Show like Copernicus!!!
SMH
The “Pioneer,” has kneeled his way to permanent unemployment!
Usually when you’re suing the company you’re trying to get a job in. You don’t get a job. And second, the reason they didn’t sign him wasn’t the kneeling for the flag. It was the fact that he and his representatives did not have a plan on how they would handle the scrutiny that would come to him. That came from Seattle beat writers. So that tells me that they were considering signing him if he knew what he was planning on doing and trying to figure out ways to support him that didn’t hurt the team. Seahawks have always supported their players that speak their minds. They obviously didn’t want every media day to turn into the Kap show, let’s see what shirt he’s wearing, what crazy thing will the back up QB do next. I support the message Kap is trying to get across, but his handlers need to go. IMO they cost Kap a job