Current Events > If Colin Kaepernick cares about football so much, why doesn't he sign with a CFL

(+) Yeah! (+)

or Arena league team

I don't get it
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Can't get a passport because he didn't respect the national anthem

Because it's a principle thing I think

He doesn't really care as much about playing football as he does about proving a point.
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They won't play the American National Anthem at CFL games.
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Most NFLers fail in the CFL because it's a different game.

That being said, the TiCats hold his rights. Yes, that team that hired that Baylor coach that enabled/encouraged gang rape committed by his players.

Because he's good enough to play for an NFL team and a group of owners have said (although anonymously) that this isn't about talent. Tom Coughlin, despite the owner of the team he works for sayin he'd be ok with it, flat out rejected the idea of giving him a look and refused to explain why, only to bring on a guy who isn't nearly on Kaep's level

You had the ravens saying they were taking in fan opinions before making a descion on him...lmao what?
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He could play in the NFL if he were willing to be paid a salary more in line with his talent and not be a starter.
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FrisbeeDude posted...

only to bring on a guy who isn't nearly on Kaep's level

You mean the guy that Coughlin drafted and the Jags coach coached in college. Why on earth would they do that.
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Only the leftists would feel bad for a guy who's basking in millions, but in the same breath, hate all rich people.
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AlephZero posted...

He could play in the NFL if he were willing to be paid a salary more in line with his talent and not be a starter.

He would be playing in the NFL now if he didn't have a dumbass girlfriend who made public, racist insults about his future employer:

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ray-lewis-ravens-refused-to-sign-colin-kaepernick-because-of-girlfriends-tweet/

But instead of acknowledging that this is just another way in which he's an idiot who makes terrible decisions, the racial victimization activists on CE will ignore that and pretend the white devil is oppressing him.
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gatorsPENSbucs posted...

FrisbeeDude posted...

only to bring on a guy who isn't nearly on Kaep's level

You mean the guy that Coughlin drafted and the Jags coach coached in college. Why on earth would they do that.

"I drafted a guy in college!"
Ok...cool
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Freedom of expression. Not freedom of consequence.
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Caution999 posted...

Freedom of expression. Not freedom of consequence.

Of course. If NFL owners are such thinned skinned snowflakes, that they'd handicap their teams chance at success because a guy took a knee during the anthem, that's certainly their right. Just have the balls to say it

Of course they won't, because they know how many black players side with Kaepernick
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He also wore Cop Pig socks, and a Fidel Castro T-shirt supporting the tyrant.

But please do go on how he's fighting for the American ideals.
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Notice FrisbeeDude is ignoring the article in #11 because it's devastating to his bullshit racism conspiracy theory.
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The Admiral posted...

Notice FrisbeeDude is ignoring the article in #11 because it's devastating to his bullshit racism conspiracy theory.

Ray Lewis...the unofficial PR guy for the ravens. Cool.
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While the Ravens were presumably interested in Kaepernick as a backup to Flacco, it's worth noting that Kaepernick has a better career touchdown rate, interception rate, average yards per attempt, and passer rating than Flacco.

"B-b-but his girlfriend tweeted a mean thing! We surely can't bring in a guy who may be better than our starter!"
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FrisbeeDude posted...

The Admiral posted...

Notice FrisbeeDude is ignoring the article in #11 because it's devastating to his bullshit racism conspiracy theory.

Ray Lewis...the unofficial PR guy for the ravens. Cool.

So you're doubling down on your racism conspiracy theory with yet another conspiracy that Ray Lewis, who is extremely close with Bisciotti, is lying for mysterious reasons?

Can't imagine why people don't take your racism whining seriously.
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I hope Frisbeedude is actually Kaepernick otherwise his posts look incredibly pathetic

AlephZero posted...

He could play in the NFL if he were willing to be paid a salary more in line with his talent and not be a starter.

False
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Milkman5 posted...

I hope Frisbeedude is actually Kaepernick otherwise his posts look incredibly pathetic

Hey, KD just got busted on fake accounts, it's not outside the realm of possibility.
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"What reason would Ray Lewis have to obfuscate the truth regarding the ravens decision making process for Kaepernick?"

Like...is this real life?

You got the ravens asking FANS for feedback on inquiring a player...fuck outta here. Mara pulled the same shit for the giants. It's absurd
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FrisbeeDude posted...

Caution999 posted...

Freedom of expression. Not freedom of consequence.

Of course. If NFL owners are such thinned skinned snowflakes, that they'd handicap their teams chance at success because a guy took a knee during the anthem, that's certainly their right. Just have the balls to say it

Of course they won't, because they know how many black players side with Kaepernick

Name one team that would be legitimately better by adding Kaepernick to it, based on nothing but talent.

Dude's not in game shape, doesn't understand offenses not tailored to RPO's, and can't read a defense.

Add in the fact that most teams that have shitty QB play also have shitty offensive play in general - that means the team would STILL suck, AND they gotta deal with Kaep's bullshit on top of it.

If he didn't suck - and he does, there's no legitimate argument against that - he'd have a job. Period.
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Kaepernick was not the only one to kneel but seems he is the only jobless one that did not kneel i hear about

any more of these blackballed or just Kaepernick

http://www.espn.com/blog/nflnation/post/_/id/247658/nfl-players-who-protested-during-the-national-anthem-in-week-1
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FrisbeeDude posted...

While the Ravens were presumably interested in Kaepernick as a backup to Flacco, it's worth noting that Kaepernick has a better career touchdown rate, interception rate, average yards per attempt, and passer rating than Flacco.

"B-b-but his girlfriend tweeted a mean thing! We surely can't bring in a guy who may be better than our starter!"

There is no way to argue that Kaepernick is better than Flacco.
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Kyurem-BW posted...

Kaepernick was the only one to kneel but seems he is the only jobless one that did not kneel i hear about

any more of these blackballed or just Kaepernick

http://www.espn.com/blog/nflnation/post/_/id/247658/nfl-players-who-protested-during-the-national-anthem-in-week-1

I'm still waiting for the video proving Michael Bennett's claims. It has to exist if he isn't lying.
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FrisbeeDude posted...

gatorsPENSbucs posted...

FrisbeeDude posted...

only to bring on a guy who isn't nearly on Kaep's level

You mean the guy that Coughlin drafted and the Jags coach coached in college. Why on earth would they do that.

"I drafted a guy in college!"
Ok...cool

Uh, yah. He knows the guy, obviously liked something about him. And his current coach was his college coach, so again the coach knows him and knows that Nassib knows the playbook.

This whole kaepernick situation would be a lot better if people supporting him knew what they were talking about.

Isn’t it weird to anyone else that only 1 person that’s knelt is no longer in the league. Almost, like that has nothing at all to do with why Kaep isn’t in the league.
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Because the bills and the jets will be lol and will have openings at quarterback soon among with the browns(also lol)

This was just to lol at how bad rex ryan is and his current/former team
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FrisbeeDude posted...

While the Ravens were presumably interested in Kaepernick as a backup to Flacco, it's worth noting that Kaepernick has a better career touchdown rate, interception rate, average yards per attempt, and passer rating than Flacco.

"B-b-but his girlfriend tweeted a mean thing! We surely can't bring in a guy who may be better than our starter!"

"Why don't teams dump QBs for slightly better QBs?" isn't a good take tbh. You'd do better arguing for the teams who just picked up new garbage starters over asking why a team that just signed Flacco to a 3 year contract extension with a lot of guaranteed money doesn't want to go after someone who is comparable.

Because let's be fair here. Kaepernick isn't a tier above Flacco.
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gatorsPENSbucs posted...

Isn’t it weird to anyone else that only 1 person that’s knelt is no longer in the league.

To be fair, Kaep certainly took the brunt of the negative attention for it compared to people who did so after it was already news.
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Name one team that would be legitimately better by adding Kaepernick to it, based on nothing but talent.

Jags, Jets, Bills, 49ers, Bengals, Colts

Dude's not in game shape, doesn't understand offenses not tailored to RPO's, and can't read a defense.

So you don't really know what you're talking about
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There is no way to argue that Kaepernick is better than Flacco

http://presnapreads.com/2017/07/30/colin-kaepernick-is-better-than-joe-flacco/
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FrisbeeDude posted...

Name one team that would be legitimately better by adding Kaepernick to it, based on nothing but talent.

Jags, Jets, Bills, 49ers, Bengals, Colts

Dude's not in game shape, doesn't understand offenses not tailored to RPO's, and can't read a defense.

So you don't really know what you're talking about

I don't have any argument about the Bills, 49ers, or Jets.

But Kaep isn't better than Andrew Luck. And if you're pointing to them because Luck is injured right now, yeah, the earlier person's point that he'd have to be a back-up for them would still be true.

Andy Dalton is also ahead of Kaep in most important metrics if you look at 2016-2017 stats.
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to the people saying he is better than flacco

Colin Kaepernick- 0 superbowl rings
Joe Flacco- 1 superbowl ring(gotten by beating the 49ers and Colin Kaepernick)
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FrisbeeDude posted...

Name one team that would be legitimately better by adding Kaepernick to it, based on nothing but talent.

Jags, Jets, Bills, 49ers, Bengals, Colts

Dude's not in game shape, doesn't understand offenses not tailored to RPO's, and can't read a defense.

So you don't really know what you're talking about

The only effect adding Kaepernick would have on the first four as far as team performance is earning them a shittier draft pick

Bengals I'll reserve judgment on for a couple more weeks and the Colts are far better with Andrew Luck than Kaepernick
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FrisbeeDude posted...

Name one team that would be legitimately better by adding Kaepernick to it, based on nothing but talent.

Jags, Jets, Bills, 49ers, Bengals, Colts

Dude's not in game shape, doesn't understand offenses not tailored to RPO's, and can't read a defense.

So you don't really know what you're talking about

None of those TEAMS would be improved by Kaepernick. MAYBE a few would have a slight improvement at QB, but he can't run their offenses, so they'd still be shit. Not worth the headache.

Also, his inability to read defenses and run a traditional pocket passer offense are well documented.
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Anteaterking posted...

gatorsPENSbucs posted...

Isn’t it weird to anyone else that only 1 person that’s knelt is no longer in the league.

To be fair, Kaep certainly took the brunt of the negative attention for it compared to people who did so after it was already news.

True, but there’s been zero backlash towards the people doing it now or did after Kaep. Zero. Wouldn’t there be just a tad bit of backlash towards them because of that if kneeling really was the problem. And people did it before Kaep, he definitely wasn’t the first. So remember that as well.

He ran his mouth and in life sometimes that comes back to bite you in your ass. You can either accept it and move on, or you can bitch about it and blame other people.
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Because nobody who still has a shot in the NFL goes to the CFL where u get paid less than an NFL practice squad player and have the same amount of injury risks
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Kaep will be respected more for this later down the line. right now people are just being emotional and using alternative facts to attack him.
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BilalPowell posted...

They won't play the American National Anthem at CFL games.

Why not? Up here in the north part of the US we play their anthem, even if there are no Canadians participating.
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I'm surprised people still support him after the dog fighting thing

Because he wants to play in the NFL.
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Because the CFL is a pass heavy league that wouldn't let him take advantage of his considerable run game

The Admiral posted...

AlephZero posted...

He could play in the NFL if he were willing to be paid a salary more in line with his talent and not be a starter.

He would be playing in the NFL now if he didn't have a dumbass girlfriend who made public, racist insults about his future employer:

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ray-lewis-ravens-refused-to-sign-colin-kaepernick-because-of-girlfriends-tweet/

But instead of acknowledging that this is just another way in which he's an idiot who makes terrible decisions, the racial victimization activists on CE will ignore that and pretend the white devil is oppressing him.

His girlfriend is crazy experienced in media from her position it wouldn't be logical to comment on it if they where still considering keap.


So either she in that moment lost her decade worth of media common sense

Or ray Lewis is lying

That's not obvious either way
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RickyTheBAWSE posted...

Kaep will be respected more for this later down the line. right now people are just being emotional and using alternative facts to attack him.

Oh? What 'alternative facts' would those be?
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FrisbeeDude posted...

Because he's good enough to play for an NFL team

Not as a starter and no one takes media baggage for a backup
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darkjedilink posted...

RickyTheBAWSE posted...

Kaep will be respected more for this later down the line. right now people are just being emotional and using alternative facts to attack him.

Oh? What 'alternative facts' would those be?

"he hates the country!"

"he doesn't care about Black people! why did he wait until his career was ending?"

"HE'S DISRESPECTING VETERANS!"

the type of shit morons say, basically.
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FrisbeeDude posted...

There is no way to argue that Kaepernick is better than Flacco

Who are you quoting?
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RickyTheBAWSE posted...

darkjedilink posted...

RickyTheBAWSE posted...

Kaep will be respected more for this later down the line. right now people are just being emotional and using alternative facts to attack him.

Oh? What 'alternative facts' would those be?

"he hates the country!"

"he doesn't care about Black people! why did he wait until his career was ending?"

"HE'S DISRESPECTING VETERANS!"

the type of shit morons say, basically.

I haven't seen anyone on CE say that, only rightly attacking his horrendous play and shittier attitude.

And if you think he doesn't hate America, look at his Twitter account. He shits on America every chance he gets.
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