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How do you feel about NFL being sued by Kaepernick? (https://chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=310859)

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Originally Posted by jaa1025 (Post 13156692)

He has no case. It's extremely difficult to prove and not hard to understand why people don't want to hire him. If I'm an owner I wouldn't even hire him to clean the place after the games.

I'd hire him to sweep under all the seats and concession stands. what with being able to sweep up better with the kneeling and all.

Jodi Foster gave him a role back in 2011!:D:D:D

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Originally Posted by jjchieffan (Post 13156027)

1) Just because nobody wants to hire him doesn't prove collusion. Where is the smoking gun? Also, I guess that Mel Gibson should sue the movie industry. He was pretty much blackballed a few years ago. Where is his lawsuit! The SAG didn't go to court for him? Guess what neither did the NFLPA but they are supporting anything that takes 5 years off their CBA agreement. Union slimeballs...

2) He can voice his beliefs on his own time. Not on the sideline where he is employed to play football. He didn't voice them he acted in a manner that disrespected the flag and the words of the anthem. And yes he shouldn't have done so on the time clock. Yet he broke rules that were not punishable by the NFL and the 49'ers were too scared to act on his action and suspend him.

3) Not really relevant to the conversation, so I'm not addressing it.

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Originally Posted by Iowanian (Post 13156695)

If he was good enough to be worth the hassle to have him around he would be on a team, but he isn't. He should deal with it like every other discarded journeyman who isn't good enough to be in the league.

**** that drama queen.

I'd buy more of his hero complex if he were spending his unemployed days in impoverished communities actually doing something about his concerns, but he's a whiny bitch and that's all.

I second this.

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Originally Posted by jjchieffan (Post 13156218)

Oh but he most certainly is voicing his opinion when he kneels. He went out and stated his reasoning for doing it. So every time that he knelt, he was repeating that statement in his actions. His actions are his voice. Don't try to change that because he isn't vocally saying it on the sideline. But I believe that I have seen the NFL policy on player conduct during the anthem. I haven't verified to see if that policy actually exists. But assuming that it does, the policy that I saw posted says that players are to be standing with their hand on their chest. He would definitely be in violation of that.

Correct yet there is no penalty, they are supposed to not have helmet to helmet contact but it happens. Unlike the contact which gets your team a 15 yard penalty and the player a fine there is no penalty for not standing for the anthem. There are things a team can do for actions on and off the field that hurt the team and or the franchise the 49's didn't do anything to stop it.

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Originally Posted by thegame214 (Post 13156254)

Kaep has some support, Ray Rice would hurt his case associating with him given the video/backlash.

Kaepernick is buying that support from his so called foundation that I can't seem to find financial's on....

IMHO: Fans in GB would start digging a grave in the feed lot for the bones and have him in it before he ever played a game in a Packer uniform.

I don't think KC would welcome him either..

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Originally Posted by Dayze (Post 13156310)

https://sports.yahoo.com/boomer-esia...152244156.html

Spoiler!

Sunday saw the Packers potentially lose Aaron Rodgers for the season while Colin Kaepernick filed a grievance against NFL owners for collusion. Could all of this be solved by the Packers signing Kaepernick? Boomer Esiason doesn't think so.

Appearing on Toucher & Rich Monday morning, Esiason stressed the lack of attention played to both Kaepernick's ability and his contract demands when noting why the 29-year-old remains out of the league.

"There is no way in the world that Colin Kaepernick could go in there tomorrow, learn that offense and go out on the field and play next week," Esiason said of a fit with the Packers. "I don't know what people are thinking about. I don't know why they don't understand that the NFL and offenses in the NFL are extremely difficult to pick up, and that's why I give former Patriot quarterback Jacoby Brissett as much credit as I possibly can, doing what he's doing what he's doing with the Indianapolis Colts, and he's been doing it on the fly."

Added Esiason: "The other aspect of all of this with Colin Kaepernick is how much does he want? And how much more is he going to let somebody else talk for him? When is he going to open his own mouth and say, ‘Yeah, you know, I want to play and this is how much I want' Everyone just assumes that somebody should just sign him because he went to the Super Bowl a number of years ago and they should write him a $10 million check because he's some sort of activist.

"I'm sorry. It doesn't work that way. You're either prepared to play and when you go in and you get an opportunity, you make the most of it. Remember, he's the one that walked away from the San Francisco 49ers. He's the one that said, ‘Hey, I'll go walk away from my contract and the amount of money you're going to pay me.' At the end of the day, other teams decided to interview and didn't want him."

Esiason says that there is "no way" Kaepernick will be able to prove collusion on the part of the NFL. Rather, Esiason hinted at the move being a publicity stunt.

"This is just another thing in the media, it's just another thing to promote what he's trying to do, it's another thing to put a black eye on the NFL," Esiason said. "In my eyes, that's what this is.

"He could be fighting for social justice and be the greatest human being in the world. At the end of the day, football teams want players who want to play football and who are good at it, and I don't believe he's either one."

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Originally Posted by Gravedigger (Post 13156243)

Some court will give it to him as a severance package. I have no problem with it, their are tons of worse lawsuits out there than this one, by far.

I agree. The NFL will settle, which is what Komrade Krapernick wants, imo.

I can't believe people actually defend the nutjob.

Denver might give him a job

Maybe if the dumb **** hadn't of opted out of his contract he'd have a job. **** Kaepernick.

Someone can always find a lawyer for a deep pockets case. This is it for Kap.

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Originally Posted by scho63 (Post 13156359)

Being a talent isn't what it is ALL about. The NFL is a business.

Why isn't Ray Rice in the NFL? :hmmm: He is more talented than many running backs playing today.

He was mostly worn out when he hit the spot in that elevator.

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Originally Posted by Iowanian (Post 13156695)

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Originally Posted by Buehler445 (Post 13156228)

Right. But it's not a new development.

Weeden Cassel and Hogan had jobs last year too. All while there is some schlub on his couch that put up 500 yards at Nowhereville A&M would be better. This is not evidence. This condition existed before Kaepernick.

You don't make any sense.

If he does get a job I hope he gets joe theiseman'd on the first snap. He can kneel on the field and look at his upside down foot on front of him.

He opted out of his contract and would be the turd in a punch bowl for any team that signed him. I have no sympathy for him.