Kaepernick doesn't strike me as a guy that really cares about money.

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IMO, if they did they could find themselves in trouble with the players union.

Why do people get fired from companies all the time for speaking their mind?

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Whatever an average backup makes and whatever team needed a veteran backup

Why does he even want to play then?

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Kaep really seemed to have quite the change when the media became critical of his poor play. He went from GQ coverboy to Afro-wearing political figure in no time. Something happened that really made him jaded. Probably had something to do with the asshole who runs the 49ers.

He didn't get fired. Besides, we're talking about a league that literally allows rapists, murderers, drug dealers and women beaters to play. You and I would be fired from any company even if we were the best for those things.

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Early Kapernick does. Not sure I buy that new Kap is real Kap. I kinda think he's a poser in all of this or being led by the gf.

I dismissed what he was doing initially. Something did happen to make him do a 180.

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Come on. We hear stories of players rejecting contracts all the time; one of the main stories of the last two offseasons has been Kirk Cousins doing exactly that . It benefits Goddell and the league's image a lot more to be able to point to any evidence of Kapernick actually pricing himself out of a job than having to release statements saying it's not really blackballing if everyone just individually reaches the same conclusion.

The love of the game.

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Interesting theory. I was surprised to see him taking a political stand. Maybe he's always believed this stuff and once his star dimmed he felt he had nothing to lose.

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If I am the GM of the Seahawks, it doesn't benefit me to start texting NFL buddies about what we offered Kaep.

There is no upside to getting involved in that aspect.

I don't think that's guaranteed. Even without the politics, teams have proven time and time again that black quarterbacks have a shorter leash. There's a reason there never has been a black equivalent of Ryan Fitzpatrick or Josh McCwon and that's because they would be out of the league long before having chance after chance to further demonstrate their mediocrity.

Could be, but hard to imagine he was worried too much about that stuff when he was kissing his biceps.

I think its very plausible that the gf opened his eyes to stuff that he never considered before. Whatever, people are allowed to change.

Jason Campbell kinda played that role.

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I think the fact that he was once great-ish would lead to some GM rolling dice they could rediscover some of what made him great.

You know what they say about women?

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But it's not unpopular with MANY of the customers. It's unpopular with the loud white conservative blowholes. Most people could give a fuck.

What team though? I can't come up with anyone but Seattle that would work and they obviously don't care about his anthem stuff.

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I dont follow the NFL enough to answer that. I figure a guy like him who once had great success would be gambled on by someone

There have been plenty of black quarterbacks be starters and then backups for a while.

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So how do you know for certain he would be signed?

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I explained my reasoning. I guess you cant ever say "for sure"

Huh? He'll be booed in every stadium he plays in. Of course it's unpopular .

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Ryan Fitzpatrick has more career starts than every black quarterback outside of Warren Moon, Randall Cunningham, Donovan McNabb, and Steve McNair. So yes, one only needs to be as good as one of those guys to have a long career in the league akin to Fitzpatrick's.

Charlie Batch?

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Ryan Fitzpatrick has won virtually every QB battle he has ever been in though. He has had a unique career that almost white quarterbacks won't ever have either. It's a bad comparison.

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Fitzpatrick finds himself starting NFL games still because he signs cheap and does whatever you tell him. Then whenever the QB in front of him gets hurt/falters...there he is.

I would disagree with that statement.