2025 NFL Draft Thread & Discussion

[Rcal10]

1 hour ago, Hot Sauce said:

I will recant my previous statement as I feel that I entirely misrepresented my own position on the matter. Kaepernick himself was not a distraction. The situation, however, was at no fault of Colin himself. 

So the NFL and the jackass leader of our country created the “situation” and Kapernick had to pay the price by being blackballed? Got it. Makes sense. Even if you didn’t think he was that good a QB, there is no way there were 60 better quarterbacks in football when he was being blackballed. 

[Hot Sauce]

43 minutes ago, Rcal10 said:

So the NFL and the jackass leader of our country created the “situation” and Kapernick had to pay the price by being blackballed? Got it. Makes sense. Even if you didn’t think he was that good a QB, there is no way there were 60 better quarterbacks in football when he was being blackballed. 

Yea, it was unfair. At this point we’re just repeating ourselves. We’re on the same side here.

[BigbadB]

At the time, his choice to kneel during games became a bigger distraction than the actual attraction of the football game itself. No team wanted that distraction. He was better than many backups, and maybe even a few starters, but that distraction came with him. And I seem to recall he wanted $20m a year and didn't feel like he needed to do tryouts to prove he could still play. I think he ended up blackballing himself, not that the owners colluded to blackball him, I think they all chose individually that they didn't want to deal with the controversy of signing him.

[Hot Sauce]

19 hours ago, Derwood said:

Kaepernick was similar to RGIII, Justin Fields, etc. In other words, mobile, but not a great thrower

RGIII will forever be one of the biggest "what ifs" in history. 

[Rcal10]

2 hours ago, BigbadB said:

At the time, his choice to kneel during games became a bigger distraction than the actual attraction of the football game itself. No team wanted that distraction. He was better than many backups, and maybe even a few starters, but that distraction came with him. And I seem to recall he wanted $20m a year and didn't feel like he needed to do tryouts to prove he could still play. I think he ended up blackballing himself, not that the owners colluded to blackball him, I think they all chose individually that they didn't want to deal with the controversy of signing him.

As time went on, maybe he should have tried out again. He should have never been let go in the first place. When he was first let go it was undeserved. You can spin it however you want, he should have been playing football for several more years and would have had the NFL and the president not made a big deal about it. Trump even said “get that son of a bitch off the field”. He is who made it an issue and the owners all filed in behind him. It ok to have men who committed domestic violence against a woman or worse, but don’t kneel for the anthem. That will get you banned. What a bunch of BS. 

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[Derwood]

Jim Irsay has passed away

[Brian707]