The Seattle Seahawks “postponed” a meeting with free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick after he declined to stop kneeling during the national anthem next season, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
According to Schefter, the Seahawks made a “last-minute stipulation” over Kaepernick’s protest, which sought to raise awareness for social injustice, asking that he stop kneeling during the national anthem, and he would not give them that assurance.
To be quite honest, I’m not a Football fan, I might watch a half dozen or so games a year at most.
Kaepernick ruined Football completely for me.
It’s good to see that Seattle had the guts to just say no to Dopes.
I was a lifelong Seahawks fan that walked away from watching the NFL and the Seahawks last year. The fact they are even willing to talk to Kaepenick in the first place is a negative. They are one of the biggest SJW teams in the league and I simply can’t watch anymore. That’s o.k., it was liberating. I got so much stuff done, and had so much fun on Sundays that I doubt I’ll ever watch again.
He had a back up position with the Baltimore Ravens, then his radical Muslim, activist girlfriend publicly criticized the owner.
Former Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis said that his former team was close to signing quarterback Colin Kaepernick before the free agent’s girlfriend posted a tweet ridiculing Lewis and Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti.
“We were going to close the deal to sign him,” Lewis said on Showtime’s Inside the NFL on Tuesday night. “Steve Bisciotti said, ‘I want to hear Colin Kaepernick speak to let me know that he wants to play football.’ And it never happens because that picture comes up the next day.”
The Aug. 2 tweet by Nessa Diab, which Lewis described as “racist,” compared a picture of Lewis hugging Bisciotti to a scene from Django Unchained.
News of the pickup will certainly add to the controversy as teams continue to pass Kaepernick over in favor of other players, especially since Morris has never appeared in a single regular season game since he first joined the league as an undrafted free agent in 2014.
And if Kaepernick had some value, well, that sealed the deal. Seattle passed on Kaep in order to essentially pay someone who has sat on the bench since the 2014 season.
See, Stupid does Hurt.
BTW, if Kaepernick is still working out, it is so he looks good standing next to his girlfriend on the beach, you know, the girl in the Burkini…
Unbelievable any team would consider this guy. I guess they want to see how low ratings can go.
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On second thought, they probably had decided to sign Morris, but for PC cover had to look like they were interesed in CK. Similar to how a black guy always gets interviewed for a coaching position even if they have already decided to hire someone else.
Huh? It is not “racism conspiracy theory”, but league policy…
Google “Rooney Rule”. Let me help you out:
The Rooney Rule is a National Football League policy that requires league teams to interview minority candidates for head coaching and senior football operation jobs.
I’m not sure why they interviewed him, but to avoid controversy, makes sense. They probably knew he would screw up before he got in to the parking lot.
Do I care about Kaep? No, but I love me some karma.
I live and work in King County WA and this has caused a lot of wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth this week. Some of the football inclined SJWs are claiming the Hawks didn’t pick him up just because of his kneeling antics and somehow that is a violation of his right to play football and his First Amendment. Kaep is learning the hard way, via unemployment, that the right to free speech doesn’t mean there aren’t consequences for your actions. No one owes him a job in the NFL and people are right, no team wants to deal with a mediocre Social Justice Warrior QB with baggage right now.
I remember watching him in college and he was pretty ok then playing for Nevada in the WAC. He was an alright pro QB and went to a Super Bowl in the 2012 season. It was a slide downhill ever since. The guy is 30, has realistically been out of the NFL since he was benched in 2015. He’s not playing because he’s just not that good compared to the younger guys in the league. Combine that with his baggage and he is unemployable in the NFL. Life’s hard, it’s harder when you’re stupid.
I don’t know why all of this is so hard for him to understand? While you’re on the clock, you do what the company asks. Your personal agenda is on your own time. I believe he has the right to protest, but not on someone else’s dime. Every job in America has requirements. You either choose to work there and fulfill those requirements, or you move on. His choice, his priorities. Apparently his ego means more to him than a paycheck. Glad he’s staying home, maybe the NFL can get back to being entertainment, like we pay to see. Maybe Kaepernick can go to work for CNN.
How about the employees, exec’s and what not either fired or forced to resign for a statement made on Facebook… if CK has a right to employment regardless of his kneeling or other actions, then so do those other folks. At least the other folks I speak of did it on their own time at home.