Colin Kaepernick continues to search for work and the players’ union has taken a special interest in his pursuit of a contract. Union chief DeMaurice Smith says that he has been in constant contact with the quarterback’s representatives. 
“We stand supporting our player, as we always have,” Smith told Albert Breer of The MMQB (video link). “We’ve been in touch, we haven’t stopped being in touch with his agents and his representatives and it’s important for the union to consistently balance the issues, needs, desires of an individual player against the issues and objectives of the collective player.”
Smith responded in the affirmative when asked if he finds Kaepernick’s outspoken approach to be admirable. Naturally, not everyone agrees and Kaepernick still finds himself in limbo even as several teams have serious question marks under center. The Ravens publicly flirted with the idea of signing Kaepernick earlier this month, but we haven’t heard anything on that front even as Joe Flacco recovers from a sore back and Ryan Mallett continues to struggle in practice. The Jaguars, meanwhile, seem poised to give the starting QB job to Chad Henne over Blake Bortles, but they’re not in pursuit of Kaepernick or any other free agent signal caller.
Time has not necessarily run out for Kaepernick to sign with a team, but he won’t have enough time to learn anyone’s playbook in time for the start of the season. The season begins when the Patriots face the Chiefs on September 7 – just over two weeks from today.
He made his bed, now he can lay in it
*kneel in it
Good one
If the NFL can assess penalties and fines for touchdown celebrations, why can’t they do the same to players who disrespect our flag?
I know, right? If they can fine players for celebrations and cleats, why not fine players for silently protesting about unarmed black men getting shot by police officers who more often than not get away with it with paid leave. If you’re gonna fine someone for something as dumb as a celebration I guess you should also fine them for not singing a song to a piece of cloth.
Crying whiny waste of a human
Who? U better not be talking about me Danny boy
The cops are doing their job, and accidents happen. Yes, there are dirty cops but placing the blame on the hard working police officers we have in this country instead of looking at the people who cause this mess, the gangbangers, is childish. BTW not a republican or trump voter
I know not every cop is bad, just like every muslim is not a terrorist and not every white person is a white nationalist. But pointing this out each time it happens doesn’t ever help the situation. Of course accidents happen but the cause needs to be looked into, the officers in these cases claim they are “scared for their lives” and “have reason to believe the suspect was armed” when really those are prejudices that affect their ability to do their job correctly. I have never had a bad experience with a police officer, but saying that doesn’t bring back people who have died at the hands of cops, innocently. We should move past excusing people’s behavior as a “well not everyone does that” and look harder at the fact that when things like this happen, cops are protected by the department and are often found innocent and often get paid leave. While victims families have gofundme’s to pay for funerals, cops get years of salary paid to not work in the department. I understand not targeting the good cops while addressing cops as a whole, but we cannot ignore bad cops to further try to justify that. Btw gangs were incentivized to fight each other when the gov’t introduced crack cocaine to the streets to have people fight and kill each other, they put liquor stores on every corner, and systematically imprisoned minorities to perpetuate a system of struggle.
I see you have internet access and opinions
I have too much of both honestly
That’s just the dumbest thing I ever heard.
Maybe he’s just not that good??
He’s at least good enough to have a backup job somewhere. You’re telling me Ryan Mallett is better than Kaep?
You’re probably right but Ryan Mallett comes with no baggage. Kaepernick is an instant distraction.
“Coach, what do you think about Kaepernick not standing? If you think he should stand does that mean you support unarmed black men getting shot by police? What about his support of Fidel Castro? Do you support Castro? Your team has Cuban fans that are outraged you signed him. What do you say to that?”
Kaepernick isn’t good enough to warrant all the baggage he’d bring.
John Harbaugh (hypothetically): “Who gives a damn do you want us to start Ryan Mallett?”
*End of situation!”
Also, is Kaepernick looking for a minimum deal? This is a guy who declined an option for $14 million.
He declined a $14m option to stand in solidarity with those fighting for income equality
Maybe the fact that he’s just not very good might have something to do with it.
Funny how the league isn’t doing the same for Johnny Manziel.
Ya it’s funny how they aren’t doing the same thing for ray rice and OJ too
He’s the perfect combination of a sub standard player demonstrating repulsive behavior. He needs to learn to drive a truck and shut the hell up. It’s a free country, no one should be pressured to hire this jack ass.
People are literally being pressured NOT to hire him which is why they now need to pressure people to hire him. It’s like affirmative action.
Affirmative action is NOT always a positive. In a perfect world, no bias is used in judging value.
We don’t live in a perfect world, we live in a world where a job application gets thrown away because the applicant has a “black name”. We live in a world where if you are of color you have less of a chance to go to college. We don’t live in a perfect world, so that is why affirmative action exists. It’s not always a good thing, but it’s SO necessary when one race claims the means of production and puts everyone else at a disadvantage.
Nobody is being pressured not to sign him, nobody wants his attitude, headache, baggage, and bullshit. He wants a high end back up contract also. Gtfo you jerkoff. He has the right to sit on his ass during the anthem and fans have the right to not pay to see that bullshit. Now he has to get off his ass and find a job! Booohoooo.
Ok I’m a jerkoff sure who cares loser but literally multiple owners have come out and stated that they received insane amounts of fan mail saying they’d stop supporting the team if Kaepernick was on it. Literally saying “we won’t give you our money anymore because we’re racists!!” I have a right to wipe my behind with the flag if I want, you can buy that “symbol of freedom and justice” at walmart for like $1, that’s about as cheap as toilet paper! Thanks for reminding me of my right to not give a damn about a piece of fabric and further prove my point that a man who is easily in the top 30 at his job in the WORLD can’t get a job cause of your stars and stripes Billy now go get in your truck and crack open a Budweiser, drive for a couple minutes, and when you get pulled over for drunk driving and the cop lets you off with a warning, remember that black men have been shot for selling cigarettes on the street, or have been shot on their knees with their hands on their head, ready to be arrested when a cop shoots them in the back of the head execution style. Enjoy ur white privilege Billy Pucks!!
For a person crying that job applications are thrown away for a black sounding name you jump to conclusions about billy pucks and instantly assume he’s enjoying white privilege. The hypocrisy is hilarious!
Nice argument Marcin Gortat
Funny how the union says they “stand” with him.
Based on these comments, I guess freedom of speech is a thing of the past. I guess we should fine/fire all of the players from last nights game as well. Kap might not be as good as he was a few years ago, but he’s definitely better then some of the back ups currently playing.
This isn’t a freedom of speech issue. Speech still has consequences. I’m free to tell my boss off, that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t face consequences from my employer.
NFL teams have looked the other way for far worse people than Kaepernick… Vick and Hardy come to mind, but they were deemed better players.
And Vick willingly took a 3rd string QB spot and the salary that came with it plus was gracious for the opportunity at a second chance in his career/life and didn’t come in to be a distraction even though his case obviously came with baggage.
I don’t see anyone here having an issue with Kaepernick exercising his right to freedom of speech. I do see them criticizing what he says with that right. And they certainly also have freedom of speech to criticize what someone else is saying.
There’s a big movement on the web to get people who attended the Charlottesville rally fired from their jobs. Just for exercising their freedom of assembly. No one here is trying to prevent Kaepernick from getting a job although clearly they wouldn’t mind if he doesn’t.
The players union has taken special interest. Now that’s admirable are they doing the same for other players without work? No, I don’t think so because those players aren’t lightning rods for anti owner rhetoric. He made his bed and now let him sleep in it. He totally over valued himself to the game and himself.
Wonder how many families of those lost on the USS Indianapolis would like to see him given another chance. Young men some only 17 gave there life’s so he could play football. Over 800 died from drowning, hypothermia and by killer sharks. My uncle was at Iwo Jima at only 17 years old and he lived till 90 and always stood during the Anthem.
So I say to Bad Colin Kap you don’t deserve the right to play. Go move to North Korea
Im pretty sure those people would be disgusted with the state this country is currently in
Everyone is disgusted with the state of the country. They just can’t agree on what the state of the country is.
Well said
He’ll probably be talking about how great of a leader Kim Jung Un is when he meets his inevitable death
Yeah, because those soldiers went to war to ensure that football players stand for the national anthem forever!! That’s what they want to be remembered for, that’s why they fought for this country! They died so that everyone can sing the national anthem and that’s very admirable tbh
Check this out ?all of you guys who bashes Keap for what he did that is not right he has spoken up for what he believes in, not to all who say he had disrespected the flag that is not right , the flag was originally was for the confederated solders ,not for people of color, check you’re history before you start jumping on the bandwagon people you guys act like there’s no problem with racism hello wake u
That’s just it, he did not get in front of he cause. He sat on the bench sulking about losing his job, then the story got behind him and it took its own shape. He was in the NFL for years and never offered up a minute or dime of his own to any cause before this one got behind him.
He just won’t go away.
I really don’t care what his view is compared to mine. I don’t always agree with everything our govt does. In the same sentence he’s just not very good. He can’t make the throws need to sustain a long NFL career. Where was all the “outrage” about RG3 not getting a call or Vince Young. Or Johnny Football. What about David Carr or the countless other QBs who washed out? At this point it’s keeping one guy in the news over a “political stance”. Which isn’t what the NFL is about. It’s about entertainment.
Great point
If Johnny Manziel, RG3, Vince Young, Michael Vick, Tim Tebow, or Brett Favre had a 16-4 td to pick ratio last year, they would be on an NFL roster.
God bless America…..
For those of you who’s mind is made up and don’t want to be confused by the facts, here’s one last fact for Colin Kaepernick and the rest of his us informed toadies to swallow. in 2013, blacks made up 42 percent of all cop-killers whose race was known, even though blacks are only about 13 percent of the nation’s population. Little over a quarter of all homicides by police involve black victims.
Do you have a number that shows how many of the victims threatened the officer or officer’s life. Or even innocent people possibly children. I’m no Liberal or Conservative but your “facts” are a bunch of crap
Oh shoot did not realize you were against Kap
You do not understand that you’re proving the point that blacks get killed at higher rates than every other race. If 25% of police homicides are against black people, and 13% of the nations population is black, that means 25% of police homicides happen to people who only make up 13% of the country!! That is not proportional at all!!
Another interesting fact is that 97% of all blacks who were killed by gunfire were killed by another black person. Less 1% of those killed were killed by cops. With blacks making up 13% of the country, 97% is not proportional at all!!
Oh, pfff… get your empirical data away from our emotion-fueled suppositions
Even if you’re right, we’re arguing two completely different things and even if more black people die at the hands of other black people, it doesn’t change the fact that they’re 9 times more likely to die by hand of a police officer than any other race.
Looks like dumbass should start memorizing the words too “O Canada….”
Looks like you got a good start on memorizing that
U mad yoyo, u gotsta relax….lil malt liqueur, gettin all riled up at the man !
I’m off the henny there’s no predicting what ima say next lol
We live in a world where Mike Glennon gets paid way too much to eventually lose his job to a rookie, where Kirk Cousins doesn’t sign a long term deal because he can make more money year to year. Where Brock Osweiler gets paid a ludicrous amount to throw a fit when his name is called due to Tom Savage’s injury in the playoffs and he tries to refuse to come into the game. Ryan Fitzpatrick signs a huge deal and has a terrible year, Brian Hoyer signs to be the starter in San Francisco. Joe Flacco gets hurt and the Ravens sign 2 qbs who are worse than Ryan Mallett. But Colin Kaepernick isn’t in the league because a QB that lead his team to the Superbowl and had a 16-4 td-pick ratio last year is worse than having a starter who is a career backup with terrible stats who has no playoff experience. And to make it worse, his “attitude issues” are that he speaks his mind clearly, in an educated manner, has an afro, and answers questions honestly. OMG so many red flags how could you sign the guy??
How many 49ers games have you watched the last few years?
“We stand supporting our player…”
How about taking a knee for him instead? Glad to see when he needed to stand up for him and sign him they all took a knee as well. Should’ve gone to Canada.
Most police departments do ride alongs for anyone who wants one. It’s free. Then, you can sit next to a cop and explain to him how racist he is for 8-10 hours