NFL Media’s Mike Silver reported on Monday that Seahawks GM John Schneider reached out to Kaepernick’s agent last week.
NorthHawk wrote:You might be right, Sis but he's going from a Super Bowl QB to a backup, so it's going to be tough for him any way you look at it.
It depends on his mental make up if he can or wants to take on some of the feelings he would have coming into former enemy territory.
On the other side of the coin, he may not have too many other offers.
NorthHawk wrote:Mike Bennett said today that he thinks Kaepernick would be a good fit both in the locker room and on the field fwiw.
NorthHawk wrote:I read somewhere that he thinks he's made his point and is moving on.
I wouldn't mind at all if he landed here.
jshawaii22 wrote:If the choice is 1.5m to sit on a bench vs. Zero.... look at Hass, he didn't exactly do himself any harm being behind Andrew Luck for a couple years and I'm sure he wasn't paid 'like a starter'.
jshawaii22 wrote:Obi,
I'm not all on-board either, but Kaep did say he's done with the grandstanding on the politics of the world and has been working with both a mental trainer and a football trainer for the past 4 months to get himself mentally and physically ready to contribute. He says he's 'changed' --
He didn't change his stance until it became apparent that teams were shying away from him because if it. Says a lot about his convictions, doesn't it?
NorthHawk wrote:How can you prove that? It's not like his team went deep into the playoffs so it was his off season when he said that.
To try to determine somebody else's motivation is a very inexact science.
Here's an article from March:
http://www.rollingstone.com/sports/coli ... st-w470204
From the article:
'There are two main reasons why Kaepernick has decided to end his protest. The first is he no longer wants it to detract from the positive change he believes has been created. The second is because he believes the protest did its job by sparking a national discussion about social inequality. Whether or not you support Kaepernick's decision to take a stand against the national anthem, there is no doubt he got people talking.'
Hawktawk wrote:No No No
I hate the MF and it started before his ridiculous stance against the government and nation that made him wealthy. Ill take my chances with Boiken or anyone else. Schneider will truly piss me off if he does this.
Did i hear someone say it would be "funny" if Russ got hurt and this guy won us a super bowl? Good grief...delusional.
Hawktawk wrote:No No No
I hate the MF and it started before his ridiculous stance against the government and nation that made him wealthy. Ill take my chances with Boiken or anyone else. Schneider will truly piss me off if he does this.
Did i hear someone say it would be "funny" if Russ got hurt and this guy won us a super bowl? Good
grief...delusional.
Hawktawk wrote:There are some bad cops, sure. Not many thougth. The thing with Kap is that it went beyond a protest. Wearing pig socks and a Fidel Castro shirt was just too much, as well as defending the choice of Castro attire by praising Cuba's educational system etc. What a Fing tool.Cuban refugee Kiko Alonso blowing him up on the goalline a few weeks later was so priceless.
Beyond all of that I think when you are the QB of a team you are the undisputed leader of that team if you are a winner. You don't sit on your ass protesting ANYTHING. Your position disqualifies you from that sort of activity. Retire if that's what you have to do. You don't grow a friggin Dr J afro. You don't cover every square inch of your body with tats. You're the QB.
You don't talk like a 5 year old and show up at your press conference in a wife beater with beats hanging around your neck.
The guy is a tool. Bring back Whitehurst to hold the clipboard, jeezus.......WHY? JS and PC are highly underestimating the ire of the 12s and the good time feel here if they do this.
Name another method where a single 2 minute non violent protest while he exercised his foremost fundamental right and repeated 16 times created such media attention.
it was a simple, yet highly effective action.
He got people talking about the issue.
burrrton wrote:People had already been talking about the issue *ad nauseum*, and in fact, some considered him late to the game and a bandwagon-jumper (remember all the "oh look who's trying to make himself relevant again"?).
Also, I don't recall a single person arguing he didn't or shouldn't have the right to do what he did.
RiverDog wrote:BTW, nice to see you posting again, Burr!
People had already been talking about the issue *ad nauseum*, and in fact, some considered him late to the game and a bandwagon-jumper (remember all the "oh look who's trying to make himself relevant again"?).
Also, I don't recall a single person arguing he didn't or shouldn't have the right to do what he did.
Hawk Sista wrote:I can't comment on his shift in kneeling or not kneeling as I don't really know it's origin, but I do think he has been criminalized for his expressing himself. I never dreamed I'd defend the man, but this off-season must be so difficult on him. He is better than some starters and certainly better than Gabbert, McCown, Fitzpatrick and others who have been picked up as back-ups. The Jets, by way of example, would be far better with him than whoever they are running out as s would Houston, Cleveland and even the 49ers.
I don't know what type of person he is. He has always bugged the heck out of me, probably (& most notably) because he was a Niner and also used to burn my Fresno State Bulldogs when he played at Nevada. There is something about the sound of his voice and his laissez-faire delivery that always felt like he wasn't my cup of jo. All that said, I think he would be a very solid back-up here, if he could bring himself to do it for what we could pay. That's a major slice of humble pie...even slices. 1st he has to accept that he's NOT the man. Then, he has to take a BIG pay cut and finally, he'd play back up for a team that has been his rival. May be just too much pie for one dude to choke down.
The thing that might concern me more than anything about his signing is the Bennett's and Sherman's of the team who purportedly aren't all that in love with RW. If it would cause a more divided locker-room, I think I'd take a pass. I do not care at all about the kneeling.
Other articles in the national media were filled with sentiments like the first one.
I heard them still talking about it the other day on NFL Radio and it's all because of Kaepernick.
He is better than some starters and certainly better than Gabbert, McCown, Fitzpatrick and others who have been picked up as back-ups.
All that said, I think he would be a very solid back-up here, if he could bring himself to do it for what we could pay.
River Dog - Criminalized? How? Demonized, maybe, but how is he being treated as a criminal?
You also have to keep in mind that pressure of any sort is also an attempt at denying someone their right.
I would think that many of those that wanted him punished are also those that rail against Political Correctness - which this is a form of.
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