OT: Kaepernick met with Elway

[signbabybrady]

So this tells me Kaepernick is not really in love with going to Denver...

Or it says he is in love with 4.9 Mil.

 

[rsd]

After seeing how owners treat players like chattel, Kap would be crazy to reduce his money by 5 Mil. Screw Denver.

 

[denverpatsfan]

He will restructure his contract. Donks fans are ecstatic here. Back to back Superbowls they are calling it now.

 

[Todd Bradley]

Kaepernick has absolutely zero reason to give away $5 mill of guaranteed money.

That's just senile stuff.

I'd be highly, highly surprised to see him agree to take off any more than $1 million.

Either way, the Denver Cheaters aren't winning jack sh!t this upcoming season, so Kaepernick or not, it won't make a difference.

 

[Love The Drake]

They need to dump their back to Miami save the cap room gain a draft pick only move that makes sense.

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

Surely Denver can apply some more of that same "cap magic" that they used for 2 years to win their Elway era 90s SBs. I mean, being find a 3rd round draft pick is worth it to violate the cap with off to the side payments & such.

If that doesn't suit them maybe they can ask the league to give them one of those exclusive get out of Cap Hell Free cards like they gave the Jets in the new CBA.

 

[BradyFTW!]

He will restructure his contract. Donks fans are ecstatic here. Back to back Superbowls they are calling it now.

Have they seen Kaepernick at any point in the last 3 years? ****, last year he was replaced by Blaine Gabbert... who was an improvement.

 

[XLIX]

Kaepernick is an upgrade over Manning. <-- serious post

He is definitely an upgrade over Peyton Manning circa 2015. People seem so eager to write off the Broncos because of their offseason QB issues, but QB was never the strength of their championship team. In fact, it was arguably their biggest weakness.

 

[JMC00]

I'm writing them off because they'll have a post-SB slump at some point next year (every team gets it) and it will allow the Pats to be in the drivers seat for the #1 seed.

People want to talk about Pats in Denver. Let's talk about Broncos in Foxboro. 0-5 in their last 5 games at Gillette.

 

[Love The Drake]

I beleive Pitt Oak and Jac will be our biggest challenges in the AFC

 

[XLIX]

I'm writing them off because they'll have a post-SB slump at some point next year (every team gets it) and it will allow the Pats to be in the drivers seat for the #1 seed.

People want to talk about Pats in Denver. Let's talk about Broncos in Foxboro. 0-5 in their last 5 games at Gillette.

Ok. And where is next year's Denver-NE game being played?

 

[Deus Irae]

I beleive Pitt Oak and Jac will be our biggest challenges in the AFC

April Fool's day was Friday, not today.

 

[JMC00]

Pitt

They won't win anything ever again with Tomlin IMO. He was given a gift 2008 when Brady went down in the 1st game and that was mostly Cowher's team. His 2nd SB appearance was another gift when the jests took out Manning and then Brady. Then the next year he lost to TEBOW in the playoffs... Then had 2 back-to-back 8-8 seasons.

 

[JMC00]

Ok. And where is next year's Denver-NE game being played?

So? Pats could go 12-4 with 1 of the losses being against them and the Broncos could go 11-5 and that game wouldn't matter because Pats would have home-field

 

[XLIX]

So?

So your point that Denver sucks in Foxboro is pretty weak considering that in the one game we know Denver is playing against NE will be in Denver.

Beyond that, we have no idea what will happen or if the teams will meet again in January.

 

[Ring 6]

He took a team to two straight NFC Championship games and a Super Bowl and were a goal line stand away from winning it.

He had two down years in seasons where there was coaching turmoil.

Kapernick may not be the force he once was, but he's far from terrible.

He was on a team that carried him there.

 

[Jackson 2]

They won't win anything ever again with Tomlin IMO. He was given a gift 2008 when Brady went down in the 1st game and that was mostly Cowher's team. His 2nd SB appearance was another gift when the jests took out Manning and then Brady. Then the next year he lost to TEBOW in the playoffs... Then had 2 back-to-back 8-8 seasons.

I agree. I believe Tomlin is incredibly overrated as a head coach.

 

[Gronk]

He was on a team that carried him there.

Yes this. The 2011 and 2012 49ers were very good football teams. Not built for the long haul necessarily I remember one of their "things" that announcers would harp on being that they basically only went 11 guys deep on defense, but they ran the ball really well, didn't make dumb mistakes on offense, and for a short time the energy of Harbaugh was a positive effect for them. In 2011 they lost in OT in the NFCCG with Alex Smith, who became a damn good player under Harbaugh and has continued to be very good in KC. It was only getting a concussion that took Smith out in 2012 in the middle of what looked to be his best season yet. I don't remember if he was deemed ok to come back at any point that season but they would have been just as likely to get to the Super Bowl (win or lose) with Smith or Kaepernick. I guess they picked Kaep b/c he was more dynamic, but their career trajectories since then tell you all you need to know about whether they made the right choice.

As far as how it would affect and DEN/NE games, well, QBs that can run around well seem to cause them more trouble than those that can't (even Smith was annoying as hell to watch in the playoff game this year), but maybe that's partly just that it's more annoying to watch. Eli can't move at all but he's been a problem a couple of times. So in that regard I guess I'd say that in a DEN/NE matchup I'd rather see Sanchez for that reason. Whether one of the other would be "better" for the Broncos, eh, I don't know. There's a lot of reasons to believe either would blow up in their face, and yet a few reasons to believe they'll still be a playoff-caliber team with either as well. Sanchez is more of a doofus that's a company man, and Kaepernick seems to have garnered a reputation as a self-righteous douche. The narrative I keep hearing from "experts" is that the defense is soooo good that it doesn't matter who the QB is, which I don't really buy. They always fail to mention the loss of Jackson and Trevathan when they spin that one too.

 

[Todd Bradley]

He was on a team that carried him there.

Except that's not true, considering his legs made him nearly unstoppable to opposing defenses those two seasons.

Maybe go rewatch the SF/Pats game in 2013, where he torched us.

 

[Ring 6]

Except that's not true, considering his legs made him nearly unstoppable to opposing defenses those two seasons.

Maybe go rewatch the SF/Pats game in 2013, where he torched us.

We will have to disagree. Nearly unstoppable? Come on. I was at that game they scored because of out turnovers not kaeoernicks running.