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blackamerica;9543554 said:IceBergTaylor;9543461 said:Jets can't consider Colin Kaepernick in 2017 given lack of growth on field, social stances off it
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The Jets’ painstaking search for a franchise quarterback should no longer include the biggest charlatan out there. For all of Colin Kaepernick’s physical gifts, he’s not worth the trouble anymore.
The Daily News reported in February that the Jets were aware of and intrigued by Kaepernick’s desire to play for them after the signal caller’s rocky couple of seasons in San Francisco. The mercurial quarterback had become disillusioned with the 49ers, angered for myriad reasons, including a midseason benching. San Francisco and Denver nearly worked out a trade in the offseason, but John Elway couldn’t convince the player to take enough of a pay cut.
Kaepernick’s desire to become an agent for social change this summer has altered the equation for quarterback-needy teams. His ongoing national anthem protests are reason enough for some clubs to steer clear when he becomes a free agent in March by opting out of his restructured contract.
“It wouldn’t be my first choice,” Jets owner Woody Johnson said in September about how he would feel about one of his players refusing to stand for the national anthem. “I think I would have a conversation at that point with him to try to find out what’s motivating that person to do that kind of protest.”
Kaepernick’s public disdain for Donald Trump likely doesn’t sit well with Johnson, who has been one of the president-elect’s biggest fundraisers and reportedly a candidate for the United Kingdom ambassadorship in the new administration.
On the field, Kaepernick can be a dual threat, but it’s unclear whether he’ll ever be able to recapture the magic that got him to within one play of back-to-back Super Bowl appearances. He went 21-8 as a starter in 2012-2013, including four playoff wins, before regressing. He is 10-21 as a starter in the past 2½ seasons, including 0-7 this year.
“I’m very confident in my ability to go out, play, succeed and lead a team to win,” Kaepernick said in the run-up to the 49ers’ game against the Jets on Sunday. “There’s a lot of things that go into teams winning football games. But I try to make sure that I do my part as far as being able to lead, being able to come in every day, work hard and prepare myself and try to prepare my teammates to go out and be successful.”
Although the 29-year-old signal caller has shown flashes of his former dynamic self this season (see: Saints and Dolphins games), he’s still only completing 54.5% of his passes. He completed a grand total of one pass for four yards before getting benched in the fourth quarter against the Bears last week.
Kaepernick, who will start against the Jets, hasn’t exactly alleviated concerns about his ability to mentally grasp playing the hardest position on the field. It’s fair to wonder whether he’ll ever clear that hurdle.
Kaepernick would be an intriguing option in a vacuum for the Jets. Chan Gailey once turned Kordell Stewart into a dual-threat weapon who got the Steelers on the doorstep of the Super Bowl.
It’s impossible, however, to consider signing Kaepernick now without factoring in his social stance.
He has revealed himself to be misguided with nothing more than surface knowledge about issues he supposedly cares deeply about. He promises to continue his anthem protest until “this country represents what it says it represents”… yet didn’t participate in the most fundamental process that can affect change in this country. His refusal to vote (or even register to vote in his life) was the height of hypocrisy and ignorance.
Maybe he should pick up a book and read about the Civil Rights activists who died so that future generations didn’t have the discriminatory barriers to the 15th Amendment.
Kaepernick’s decision not to vote not only insulted their memory, but undermined the very principles that he said he stood for. He could have weighed in on health care, gun control and many other down-ballot measures to make his voice heard on Election Day.
There were 17 state-wide platforms in California that surely would have appealed to social activists. There were 25 ballot measures in San Francisco, including a proposition that would have allowed 16-year-olds to vote in school board elections. Wouldn’t that have been a good way for Kaepernick to encourage the next generation to get involved in the process and affect change?
Kaepernick either chose to ignore those ways to make an impact or was too busy wearing t-shirts with images of a dictator with a legacy of human rights violations to understand. He needed to look beyond the obvious. Obviously, he didn’t. -Manish-Mehta
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A few days after Michael Slager was allowed another chance at freedom I don't see how ppl write these articles unchallenged. Injustices for black ppl is a everyday thing now. Yet ppl bring up voting as if that's gonna change white supremacy
Do some people actually think thats what voting is for? news to me. Its to do your part to elect those who are more in line with your political views and wishes. Therefore, by default if you keep white supremecists out of office, they cant enact their laws and policies. Its more indirect cause and effect. But no voting wont magically end racism or anything. It can keep those people out of office though. Therefore effecting a host of things. You vote for who you think is better for you. Aiding them by letting them do whatever they want by not using your power is actually not a very good strategy. Its not complicated either.Its quite simple.
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