He is a few years removed from the last time he was the next big thing, something like 2012 or around then. Sorry if off by a couple years. He had a promising start, began to falter, and a little after he started sucking, his "take a knee" issue began.
The problem is that while I think he's got every right to do so, as do the rest of the players, at this point it's a matter of "is he good."
I think it's fine to have this tryout, but the NFL should organize tryouts for anybody who once was good and can't catch on with a team, if we're being fair. Clearly, yeah, there's this weird "movement" around him. I agree w/his right to use his platform. I think he chose taking a knee as a respectful way to signal his issues--he picked it in response to a convo with a teammate who had served suggested it (instead of sitting). The pig socks will possibly look different to different communities. They're his right to wear too... with the number of disturbing incidents being routinely captured, I'll at least say he could be forgiven those too.
But what other QBs couldn't catch on? Would they get one-of-a-kind all-32 tryouts if they blamed their situation on their social activism?
What's going thru the activists' minds, to make Kaep himself an issue, and how he can't get hired? Don't they know teams don't let you just fire off whatever crap you want to? Don't they know there are 2-3 guys per team biting back most of their personal opinions? Do they think everybody else is a dumb jock, but Kaep is woke? No, they all have opinions. It might be sad that the NFL's image is not that of a debating society with a football team, but it's not. You cause trouble in your locker room or with your team's fans, where is that ever good?
I don't think the activist fans are really football fans. I don't think they turn the channel from the latest Kaep story to the actual games. I think they turn the channel to something else about "the struggle" in one form or another.
I'm saying this as someone who thinks "more power to ya" when I see people who are trying to redress wrongs.
I just don't see how it's supposed to work after the 1 supposed hoped for result of getting Kaep on a team. I guess the theory is, he became radioactive b/c of his protest, so it's only fair. Okay, if that's the end of it.
But I can just see players protesting having to play w/an out gay player protesting that by not standing with the team for the anthem or whatever. How does it look then? How about some buttwipe white nationalist doing a fascist salute?
I mean, I guess I would have to say, he's using his platform. But then if his contract is up, the team is facing backlash, and he doesn't get signed... does he get his racist or fascist pro day too?
This whole thing is so focused on one guy and one cause. I can be sympathetic to both. But is that same principle valid for all causes and all QBs?
Wow. Can't believe that's where I come down on this, but it is... that should tell ya something I guesss.
