Official Based Colin Kaepernick Appreciation thread

Can we take a minute to realize based Kap won? He's got the country talking about racial inequalityl

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>Who is Colin Kaepernick?
NFL Quarterback who last played for the San Francisco 49ers.
>Is he a good QB?
TL;DR: Debatable, he used to be pretty good but started really falling off these past two years he played. Also the Super Bowl year plus the following year after that, many people could suggest he was being carried by one of the most dominant Defensive squads in recent history as well as the top O-Line in the league for rushes. Also runny QB's like Colin and RG3 started falling off because defenses started understanding how to combat them. The league currently favors passing-heavy QB's like Rodgers, Brees, and Brady.
He was known to be highly athletic and could literally outrun a defense. He was a run-first pass-second kind of QB. He ended up replacing Alex Smith who was the previous 49er QB, who was just starting to get into his prime. Alex and Colin were two different types of QB's, Alex had a lot more experience and veteran wisdom, he could run, he could make short passes well and played very risk-adverse. Colin was a newcomer who did things differently and had more upside according to many speculators remarks from various NFL analysts. Colin could immediately open up the pass game by simply running for +20 yards (look up 49ers vs Packers where Rodgers calls Colin a Gazelle).
>What controversial thing did he do?
Started to get into Black Activism and used his public figure to do things like kneel during the national anthem and not vote in the US elections. The NFL, having a good relationship with the US military and many of its fan are military families, frowned upon Colin's gestures.
>Is he still on the 49ers? What is he doing now?
He is no longer a part of the 49ers. He opted out of his contract back in March 2017, thus making him a free agent. As I'm writing this comment, he is still a free agent. Recent news alleged him meeting with the Ravens, with head coach John Harbaugh. Nothing seemed to go anywhere.

>So what now for Colin?
Dude is literally at the mercy of any team's decision. He has learned that Activism and playing in the NFL are two different things. Teams have avoided him because they don't want to deal with the drama surrounding Colin. We will have to wait and see if any team is willing to give Colin a chance.

I think you'll find the people who dislike him are a vocal minority, but in general, the people who dislike him do so because they think his (very peaceful and non-intrusive) protests against discrimination towards minorities is disrespectful and un-American.

>but protesting is un-American REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Protesting is one of the most patriotic things you can do. Being anti-protest is just authoritarian and anti-patriotic when it comes to the US. Also protesting as a popular person is a lot more effect than voting. As a voter your action matters no more than any other person, however your protest actions as a popular person matters a lot more. It affects a lot more people. It doesn't undermine what he did or we wouldn't be having this conversation. Whether you think it is undermined or not, it has created conversation about our morals and rights in this country. Much progress has been made in the country that didn't require voting.

I served in the military for 6 years and didn't vote during that time. Does my military service to my country not count as patriotic because I didn't vote? I sure hope not.

Do you write for Salon or Mother Jones by chance?

This. Blind nationalism is fascism

>used his public figure to do things like not vote in the US elections
this is not true, according to himself he never voted because he never cared, not even before he became an 'activist', not even the first time there was a black presidential candidate (that won without his vote). That's how much he cares about the black cause and shiet

>but everyone hates Kaepernick REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Not everyone dislikes him. In fact, there are people protesting on his behalf, including Spike Lee, based on the assumption that Kaepernick is being blackballed by the NFL.

Last season Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem to bring attention to social injustice, and it was not received well by owners. But he's also been an inconsistent performer on the field the last few years, and at age 29 he's unlikely to get better, so it's unclear why he is currently unemployed. That being said, he's said he's given up his protest, and if a quarterback gets injured this season, as often happens, he could make a comeback.

Quick! Now's my time to virtue signal on Sup Forums better not miss this chance!

Can you believe it's the current year and PoC still can't shoot cops?

Kap a benched qb from san francisco...

>this is what the half sandnigger is kneeling for
lad status: wew

Way to prove my point.

And by that comment you just virtue signalled your own beliefs and what your personal morality is too.

And frankly your signalling was in a form completely devoid of relevant content while his at least flowed from the conversation.

I would like everyone in this thread to read this.

fivethirtyeight.com/features/yes-its-strange-that-colin-kaepernick-doesnt-have-a-deal-yet/?ex_cid=538fb

He only started kneeling when his career went south. He didn't give a shit before that, he used it for attention because he realized he was fading into obscurity.

What appalls me the most is that Kaepernick has been to a Super Bowl and carried the 2012-13 49ers almost entirely on his back.

Yep, people are sleeping on Kaep. He's had a terrible supporting cast for a while now and he's still performed adequately. I posted a blind comparison yesterday and it's pretty unanimous from an efficiency perspective that Kaep has been better than Andrew Luck to this point in their respective careers. He gets a bad rap, but when given the opportunity, he's been better than the highest-paid QB in the league.

He's well worth 10 million from a football standpoint to a team that needs a QB. Hell, Mike Glennon just got 15 million a year, and he hasn't played in 2 years, has a smaller body of work, and the body of work that he has is not as good.

Why would Based Kaep would want to bring on so much negative attention on him from fascist Drumpf supporters?it takes allot of balls to do that on the national stage platform

Well I mean do you realize how shit his supporting cast was at the time his career went south? Jeremy Kerely, who couldn't make it as detroits number 4 WR was their leading receiver, Carlos Hyde has gone to IR in December for the past two years, Their Oline is certainly not what it used to be, Vance McDonald isn't exactly a receiving TE, and their defense is not too good anymore.

The break down of the 2014 was monumental. It's safe to say Kaepernick got the short end of the stick. This has nothing to do with his protests, it has to do with the NFL deliberately putting him in this position because of organizational incompetency on York's end.

Kaep gets cali talking noone cares about kaep

He's not garbage. He's had a shit supporting cast around him for the last few years and would make an excellent backup or even a semi-okay starter under the right circumstances. This 'Kaepernick is useless' circlejerk needs to die.

Here's why Kaepernick might be blackballed.

There are other factors that may be at play, such as his reported desire to compete for a starting job (and earn a low-starter to high-backup salary). That would encourage him to wait and see what happens with Romo and the ripple effects that Romo’s move could have on the rest of the league.

This seems to only acknowledge the choice Kaepernick has in regards to this, but ignores how this also severly limits his market in terms of teams who can provide him tht.

If you look at every team in the NFL, you have about 8 teams potentially looking for a QB: Broncos, Texans, Jags, Browns, Bills, Jets, Bears and 49ers. Broncos have Siemian and Lynch so they are only going to be looking at Romo, Jags have Bortles who they still are waiting on, Bills kept Taylor, Kaepernick voided his deal with the 49ers.

So that leaves the Texans, Browns, Jets, Bears. Bears sign Glennon so they are out. That leaves 3 with the draft still to come.

When Minnesota starter Teddy Bridgewater went down just before the 2016 season, the Vikings traded a 2017 first-round pick and a 2018 fourth-rounder for Bradford’s services as an emergency starter. Kaepernick is only a year older than Bradford was last season, but his value has dipped from a fourth-round pick in Denver to seemingly nothing at all.

The amount traded for Bradford was the result of desperation from the Vikings, not solely based on the value of Bradford unlike what this seems to be implying. The 4th round pick from the Broncos only means that that is the value Kaepernick had to the Broncos/49ers at the time which for reasons already mentioned, no longer exist.

Literally never said any of that, I simply said he was no longer winning and no longer in the spotlight, and that's when he started to kneel. You should hop off his dick before you criticize people "circlejerking"

The other thing this ignores is what Im calling the "Tebow Effect". Kaepernick is still famous and remembered for previously having success as a starter so even if he agreed to become a backup, he wouldnt be like any other backup because unlike a Chad Henne or Case Keenum, the moment the starting QB struggles, there is going to be a lot of noise about how Kaepernick is the obvious solution for the team.

And one more thing, if you re going to make a argument that he is a good enough pocket passer based on the fact some writers who did a analysis on him think so, then you should also acknowledge that other writers who also did a analysis who dont agree with that opinion.

Yes, Kaepernick is helping millions of white people realize they are actually the most oppressed group in America.

Kaep isn't as bad as the one half of you people think he is, and he isn't as good as the other half think he is. But the key thing that most people are missing is the fact that his strength isn't as a QB, it's as a QB that can turn into a RB at any opportunity. But he's going to be 30 this season, his running game isn't going to hold up any better than an actual RB which means his value is only in starting now there's no chance he's a starting QB in 4 years like any other QB. That limits his worth to teams that aren't currently contenders and leaves him with only a couple viable options. Factor out the teams that aren't looking for a QB, even if they maybe should be (Jags, Broncos) and you really only have The Texans left. The Texans are set on Romo and won't even look at Kaep until that's off the table.

Kaep lost because he opted out of his contract like a retard

He wouldn't have a job either way because he's not good enough to justify the circus (see also: Tebow, Tim), but at least he'd still be getting paid if he didn't opt out.

The funny thing is retards think he's been 'blackballed' for his protest. Ignoring that players like Marshawn are working, and they protested the exact same way. The fact is he sucks dick. I said he sucked back when I saw him in his first training camp for the Niners, no fucking touch at all. He sails balls over receivers heads. Fires it in when he doesn't need to. Can't read a field or go through progressions for shit.

Fact is this half breed sucks dick and he's trying to pretend it's because he's a retard politically. He'll probably end up with a guest spot on the View, or whatever other dumbass show needs a retarded nigger to fill in and give the 'black' perspective.

Kaep was already benched b4 his bullshit

Perhaps you didn't read some of the other posts around you. Someone pointed out the 49ers cheated him when the team broke down after 2014. So in a sense, Kaepernick might feel cheated from the organizational standpoint?

A lot of balls to say dumb lefty things you know the media will immediately back you on? Okay lol

Its about WHEN you're choosing to protest, the anthem (and honestly sports in general but the anthem especially) has an unspoken rule about no protesrs and even no gimmicks/shenanigans for that matter. This is why Roseanne Barrs awful trolly version was booed heavily live.

Just like Sup Forums was once warned by the NFL: Don't mess with football
The NFL and everyone in sports should be reminded: Don't mess with the Anthem

Okay and that is relevant to my argument in what way?

He wants way too much money for the position for him you just described you idiot

> muh media

How much Putin pays you?

>reddit spacing
>muh russia

>racial inequality

Yeah! Blacks aren't shooting enough whites to compensate for all the blacks they're shooting.

youtu.be/qBCQby1-JWo

What specifically about racial inequality?

>Sup Forums - sports
Great sports-related post my friends!

Not as much as Soros pays you

JUST cuck my shit up senpai.

>kaepernick
>got the country talking about racial inequality

Lol no he didn’t. Who is kneeling and who isn’t is a much bigger story than why they are doing it. The people who are mad they are kneeling are only thinking about how they are disrespecting the country. Not racial inequality. The people who are happy they are kneeling probably just don’t like Trump lol this bullshit “protesting” is a waste of time and won’t accomplish anything

If niggers really faced external systematic oppression, explain all the overt virtue signaling from everyone in a position of power outside of trump and the NFL fans

>Protesting is one of the most patriotic things you can do.

Are you dumbasses going to keep saying this Reddit shit for the rest of the year? Nobody is saying they don't have the right they're saying it's stupid.

And nobody is talking about the issue anymore. Just the kneeling itself, nobody cares about the issue just who's kneeling. That's what's retarded about these things firstly, just like the ice bucket challenge shit. Also people are annoyed because African Americans want to endlessly blame the system, get us to not trust our judges, hate our policemen, military, and be un patriotic shits. FUCK them. The truth remains their community is in shambles because they can't stop fucking with cops, breaking laws, and promoting violence/degeneracy in their communities. Fatherless homes are also insanely high l same with black on black violence.

>all niggers should die

you're wrong, black lives matter

so what happened to the narrative that nobody wants to hire him cause they don't want the media circus? seems every owner is pretty satisfied with the circus now.

>he won even though his career is over and he has no other life skills that can get him a real job
THE ABSOLUTE STATE OF NIGGER POLITICS

dailycaller.com/2017/09/25/espn-turns-into-a-daylong-anti-trump-talk-show-video/

Espn did this to sports not us, blame them