Center JC Tretter

[Murdock2420]

(03-22-2022, 06:40 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Don't think it's about him being the president of the NFLPA.

The Bengals signed Eric Winston while he was NFLPA President and kept signing him for 4 years.

He might just be one of those guys that aren't in a hurry.

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As for Kap, there seems to be a whooooooole lot of "forgetting" when it comes to him.

He threw for 59% completion, 6 TD/5 INT, 6.6 YPA, 78.5 QB Rating while going 2-6 in 2015 before having season-ending shoulder surgery. During the offseason he would also have both knee AND thumb surgery. He started 2016 on the bench because of the three surgeries, got back the starting job, and proceeded to lose 9 straight games, going 1-10 on the season.

HE then CHOSE to opt out of his contract with the 49ers. He wasn't cut/waived/released, he opted out. (There were rumors that he'd have been cut if he didn't opt out, but who knows if those were true, he chose to leave first.)

Even after ALL of that he was still about to be signed by the Ravens in 2017 before his girlfriend publicly compared the Ravens owner and Ray Lewis to a slave owner and his slave.

There's a whole lot more to it than "gets blackballed for taking a knee" and saying otherwise is disingenuous at best. The NFL has proven time and time again, if you're talented enough they will overlook all kinds of baggage. Once your talent no longer outweighs the baggage, they move on. I mean shit, Mike Vick went to prison for two years for fighting, hanging, and drowning dogs and NFL teams still signed him because he was already a multi-time Pro Bowler MVP-finalist who ran for over 1,000 yards at 8.4 yards per carry his last NFL before prison.

This to me is the most important thing people forget about when talking about Kap.

He didn't even start with a knee, he started by sitting on the bench for the anthem and his first time doing that was August 26, 2016 during a preseason game. 

https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/breaking/ct-colin-kaepernick-timeline-liststory-20200607-b5gigmlp7jf53itj7d6xxdvgo4-list.html

When he was winning and the star in 2013 and 2014, he didn't say a word about any social issues and that was the time he should have done it. Instead, he waited till he was on the bench and potentially going to lose his job to speak out.