Sgt. Largent":26c95pwg said:
JTB":26c95pwg said:
His beliefs/actions would be conveniently ignored if he was a high caliber QB. The NFL has proved that time and time again.
The activist/protest stuff doesn't help him at all but the driving factor is his limitations at QB and the sacrifices a team has to make schematically to accommodate him. RGIII is getting the exact same treatment.
It also doesn't help that the offensive guru HC at SF, who had experience running a scheme with a player very much like him in RGIII. opted to go with Brian Hoyer and Matt Barkley as opposed to trying to make it work with Kaepernick. This on the heels of having the prior two head coaches (Tomasula and Kelly) bench him for Blaine Gabbert.
I think we're all saying the same thing, what I gather is Si thinks it has more do with the blackballing than some of us do.
Certainly that's playing into it, but IMO it's far more about Kaepernick's skills. He's a very specific style of QB, with very few teams that'd remotely be considered a good fit. You don't bring in a one read option style running QB if you run a pro style drop back progression offense, which is 90% of the league.
Current teams with similar QBs (off the top of my head):
Dallas Cowboys (back up just retired, no contact)
Buffalo Bills (drafted QB with completely different skillset)
Carolina Panthers (who is their backup?)
NY Jets (hell, they don't even have a starter right now)
Seahawks
Titans
and I don't want this to turn into a "Marcus Mariota has a better feel for reading Defenses than Kaep" because that is irrelevant. Both are mobile drop back QBs who use that mobility to their advantage. Mariota is obviously better.
So.. yeah. I think it's more about his stance on politics. Look, we know that NFL teams will look the other way when weighing the fall out of signing someone with transgressions.
However, this is a national level story. It is polarizing. The NFL is all on in supporting the military and police.
I don't know why many want to ignore or waive away the very alarming issue with Kaep with a nonchalant dismissal o0f "he's not very good."
He's not great. But he's a hell of a lot better than what many of you are suggesting, and he's certainly better than the list made by the asshat linked in the article.
(also: bringing RG3 into this conversation is ludicrous. His injury history and inability to actually move on a football field seems to be discounted for the purpose of this narrative)
That's my issue. I don't think he's being considered at all, and I think its a grave reflection on what the NFL thinks of its fans.