Private workout will be held for Colin Kaepernick...

[jetstream23]

4 hours ago, T0mShane said:

He had a 4.0 GPA through both high school and college, and scored a 38 on the Wonderlic. 

You would think somebody that smart wouldn't act like a moron.

[More Cowbell]

5 hours ago, JetsFanatic said:

Why are they indulging this ass hole?  Why don’t they have a private workout for Luke Falk also?

Because there actually is a chance Kap can play. 

[jetstream23]

2 hours ago, T0mShane said:

iirc, the pig socks picture was taken before the kneeling started, but it definitely made people who were inclined to sympathize with him back way off, imo. He could have used better advice.

Better advice?

Why does he need advice about not insulting the people who put their lives on the line to serve and protect us everyday?  Why does someone have to tell him....don't wear anything that lets people know how you really feel?"

The guy was kneeling to bring attention to the mistreatment of African Americans in certain situations in this country.  That is a 100% noble cause, but he went about it in such a poor fashion and that's what was disappointing to me.  It was an opportunity missed.  Sitting during the National Anthem in a league where 70% of the players are black and the average salary is about $3M in order to protest the oppression of minorities is just a bad look to most people because he never really explained what he was doing and why before he started doing it.  JMHO.

[Philc1]

1 minute ago, jetstream23 said:

Better advice?

Why does he need advice about not insulting the people who put their lives on the line to serve and protect us everyday?  Why does someone have to tell him....don't wear anything that lets people know how you really feel?"

The guy was kneeling to bring attention to the mistreatment of African Americans in certain situations in this country.  That is a 100% noble cause, but he went about it in such a poor fashion and that's what was disappointing to me.  It was an opportunity missed.  Sitting during the National Anthem in a league where 70% of the players are black and the average salary is about $3M in order to protest the oppression of minorities is just a bad look to most people because he never really explained what he was doing and why before he started doing it.  JMHO.

I’m a Combat Veteran and I don’t care about what Kaepernick did.  

[jetstream23]

1 hour ago, Jet_Engine1 said:

My sons name is Connor. But he has a Turkish middle name....

Hey...uhhh....any chance he can throw a football?

 

[T0mShane]

5 minutes ago, jetstream23 said:

Why does he need advice about not insulting the people who put their lives on the line to serve and protect us everyday? 

[fusionCA]

1 hour ago, Jet_Engine1 said:

My sons name is Connor. But he has a Turkish middle name....

his name is Forkan Korkmaz? 

[jetstream23]

1 minute ago, Philc1 said:

I’m a Combat Veteran and I don’t care about what Kaepernick did.  

And that's an opinion you are entitled too.  My point is that he didn't communicate things well enough about what he was doing and why. IMO it was a type of appropriate protest that to my understanding he had spoken to some veterans about before hand.  He was told it would be disrespectful to turn your back to the flag but taking a knee in almost a wounded stance to symbolize that, in his opinion, the country was hurting, would be appropriate.

[DRJETS]

1 hour ago, Jet Life said:

Ok, you’ll be cheering for Herndon even though he drove 100mph drunk and hit a 75 year old. Same stuff. I love this country and am not even a Kap fan, I just focus on what happens on the field. In my opinion only a snowflake would quit watching because of what Kap did 

Snowflakes is the definition of rich liberal /socialists kids at universities demanding free space for whatever grievances they feel at the moment.  

When I stopped following  Football, I exercised my God given freedom not to follow a product that I did not feel comfortable.  If the league would had entertained that azzhule and the many players that followed him with their social justice BS, then I would had walked away and not come back.  The same way I stopped watching ESPN.

Let me tell you a little about me so you get an idea.  Growing up I was a die hard baseball fan and I was HS all-city playing In NYC went to play at both old Mets and Yankee Stadium for allstar game.  After the strike in the 90’s, my love for baseball went away.

[jetstream23]

2 minutes ago, T0mShane said:

It was a serious question, but if you're ill-equipped to answer it should I assume that ageism is just as cool as racism based on this picture???

[T0mShane]

1 minute ago, jetstream23 said:

It was a serious question, but if you're ill-equipped to answer it should I assume that ageism is just as cool as racism based on this picture???

Ageism is cooler than racism. I was kidding. I agree with you that he screwed up in his messaging because he did it in a way that allowed right-leaning types to portray his protest as a direct assault on police, veterans, and the military, which is what happened to great effect, as we saw in your opening paragraph. Why, if you know that’s not what he meant, would you say that’s what he meant? Because it’s a tidy and convenient way to avoid considering the actual merits of his intent. 

[JohnnyLV]

12 minutes ago, DRJETS said:

 

Let me tell you a little about me so you get an idea.  Growing up I was a die hard baseball fan and I was HS all-city playing In NYC went to play at both old Mets and Yankee Stadium for allstar game.  After the strike in the 90’s, my love for baseball went away.

I was as big of a Mets can as you can be . I was not wealthy or old enough to be a STH, but between 1972 and 1987, I went to 200s of Mets games and saw almost all the rest on TV. I had a real Mets jacket before you could go to the store and just buy one. I used to geek hard on newspaper stats, and Bill James stuff and even when I moved to San Diego I still found a way to see most games and went to dozens of Mets games in Dodger stadium and Jack Murphy. Then 1996 came and the cancelled the World Series. I have seen like 4 games total since then. All Padres games as social outings, except when I went to see Barry Bonds tie Aaron. Baseball just ceased for me. I get it.

[ZachEY]

22 minutes ago, T0mShane said:

Ageism is cooler than racism. I was kidding. I agree with you that he screwed up in his messaging because he did it in a way that allowed right-leaning types to portray his protest as a direct assault on police, veterans, and the military, which is what happened to great effect, as we saw in your opening paragraph. Why, if you know that’s not what he meant, would you say that’s what he meant? Because it’s a tidy and convenient way to avoid considering the actual merits of his intent. 

Oh come on... I appreciate you trying to walk the middle here, but you can't actually believe that Jello-brained consumers of Tucker's White Power Hour would be receptive to 'better messaging' and would have found their way to the latter part of your post with ease.

[DJF71]

Waste of time. He wasn't any good when he left.

[funaz]

4 hours ago, JetsFanatic said:

He's not black listed, he's a divisive mediocre QB playing the ultimate team sport. 

He is 100% blacklisted. There isn't any denying it. The owners are scarred of the mighty twitter of potus and will not sign him. He is better than 70% of the QBs in the league. 

[GreenFish]

5 hours ago, T0mShane said:

He had a 4.0 GPA through both high school and college, and scored a 38 on the Wonderlic. 

Was the 4.0 on a 5.0 scale? 
Just kidding. The kid is obviously in the top end of the intelligence scale. 
 

There’s a lot of anger flowing in this thread. Very therapeutic. Has anyone in this thread actually met him?

[DRJETS]

1 hour ago, johnnysd said:

I was as big of a Mets can as you can be . I was not wealthy or old enough to be a STH, but between 1972 and 1987, I went to 200s of Mets games and saw almost all the rest on TV. I had a real Mets jacket before you could go to the store and just buy one. I used to geek hard on newspaper stats, and Bill James stuff and even when I moved to San Diego I still found a way to see most games and went to dozens of Mets games in Dodger stadium and Jack Murphy. Then 1996 came and the cancelled the World Series. I have seen like 4 games total since then. All Padres games as social outings, except when I went to see Barry Bonds tie Aaron. Baseball just ceased for me. I get it.

Just like you my life evolve around baseball.  Remember back in those days I used to go late to bed listening WFAN for their every 20 minutes update just to see what was going on around the league.  I used to buy the daily news almost every day just for their scorecard.  They were the only paper that carried the late game from the west coast.  I really liked Bob Murphy calling the game and I used to glued to the tv for every postgame on kiner korner.  

[King P]

This topic has been discussed ad nauseam, so I'm not gonna go into it again. All I'll say is this...

I keep seeing people call Kaep a communist and a Castro supporter. Neither of which are any close to being true. All that shows me is that you weren't paying attention and you're completely brainwashed. I guarentee 90% of you completely uneducated as it pertains to the Latin America, specifically Cuba and it's history (including the pre Castro days when Bautista was running the country). So you shouldn't even speak on that.

[CrazyCarl40]

5 hours ago, DJF71 said:

Waste of time. He wasn't any good when he left.

That’s not even remotely true and people keep saying it. He wasn’t a top QB but he certainly wasn’t in the bottom tier. He was a mid tier player on a terrible team that couldn’t elevate the trash around him. He’s not unemployed because of talent or ability. That’s why the NFL had to settle with him. 

[The Crusher]

Ok. It was nice run but I see this heading in the wrong direction.