Colts backup QB search just
latest reminder Colin Kaepernick
not welcome in the NFL
New York Daily News,
by
Mike Lupica
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
9/2/2019 5:27:17 AM
Here are some of the quarterbacks with whom the Colts, now in search of a backup quarterback to Jacoby Brissett, have visited in the week since Andrew Luck shocked the football world by retiring:
Brock Osweiler, such a crackerjack at the position that he once got released by the Browns after they’d traded for him because they liked DeShone Kizer better than they liked him.
Matt Cassel, who is 37, who had his best year 11 years ago with the Patriots when Tom Brady got hurt, and whose last start was with the Titans two years.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
NYBruin 9/2/2019 6:09:09 AM (No. 169159)
Kaepernick was benched by the 49ers. Why would the Colts want him?? The objective of the game is to win, not virtue signal.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 9/2/2019 6:30:51 AM (No. 169161)
What does NFL stand for?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
klezmer 9/2/2019 7:08:22 AM (No. 169171)
No Mike, it isn't his politics. It is what he did. He single-handedly lost a significant amount of viewership of the NFL. Haven't you been paying attention? Ratings continue to drop and that means advertisers won't want to spend as much. Do you know what the NFL TV contract is worth? A lot less these days and a significant cause of that can be pinned on Kaepernick.
Mike, I used to go to football games but no more. I went to watch football, not to watch men stoking racism.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 9/2/2019 7:16:29 AM (No. 169176)
O.K. Folks. If you haven’t already figured it out, Mike Lupica is a big leftie. He had his heyday back in the days of Bill Clinton and was a regular on the Don Imus Show when he would spout off liberal nonsense interspersed with sports. It was also the heyday of the failed Daily News. Anyway, the NFL doesn’t, need a trouble maker like Brillo Head. His lefty girl friend goaded him into protesting and look where it got him. He’s radioactive and will never play again. That girl friend is the reason and he’s too stupid in love to realize that she’s his problem. Maybe she’ll support him for the rest of his life.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
franq 9/2/2019 7:32:13 AM (No. 169180)
Colin Komper-kumper-kumpernick could try the CFL, but they may not even need him.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Gruntmedic 9/2/2019 7:41:29 AM (No. 169188)
He's trouble no one wants him.
Plus he wants starter money.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 9/2/2019 7:42:06 AM (No. 169189)
So, I take it that the knee stunt did not work. This man is an embarrassment. Anyone who follows his acts of disrespect for this country is no better than that creep.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
normal user 9/2/2019 7:47:55 AM (No. 169194)
Great virtue signaling Lupica. Now do Tim Tebow.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Jobe 9/2/2019 7:53:35 AM (No. 169199)
You couldn't treat this guy unfairly if you tried. He deserves the WORST that can be given. After taking what this country offered him, the best of almost everything, he turns on it and takes a gigantic bite of the hand that fed, clothed and enriched him. He is a slug, and an ungrateful one at that. If he never plays football again, it will be too soon. When he profanely disrespected the flag of our nation, he put himself into the camp of the America haters, and to my knowledge, he has made no move to leave that camp. Even if discrimination were as bad as he seems to believe, and even if there had been no improvement for the black race in the last 50 years, that self-aggrandizing pile of excrement would still deserve the back of my hand for his insults to this nation. We have come a long way thanks to people like Dr. King, Justice Thomas, and other black leaders who did not crucify themselves on the cross of self advancement. This bozo should recognize how much harm he does with his PHONY demonstration. I must confess that I do not know what it is that he wants nor do I know how he hopes to get it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DW626 9/2/2019 8:09:13 AM (No. 169212)
Here’s the thing. Kraperdork a good athlete with moderate football skills got found out, as endless film sessions show, and became a poor football player and qb.
Since he hadn’t played in a couple of seasons for obvious reasons why would anyone reason his football skills have improved or even remained, why would any team take a chance on him?
Believe you me, if any team in the nfl thought he had the quarterback skills to lead their team to wins, they would’ve signed him.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
philsner 9/2/2019 8:30:10 AM (No. 169234)
"...fans who decided that dissent in the United States of America was the same as a lack of patriotism, a notion dumber than dirt."
No one thinks dissent is the same as a lack of patriotism, but that isn't what is happening here. Kaepernick hates the United States and all it stands for. That isn't dissent and he has zero patriotism.
Mike Lupica thinks I am "dumb". That really makes me want to tune in on Sundays.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Nevadadad46 9/2/2019 9:08:24 AM (No. 169261)
Sometimes people can make themselves so odious to the general public, they simply are ruined regardless of their playing ability. I can think of several athletes, politicians, industrial and business leaders, and movie stars who have done that to themselves. The public image is just as important as the professional image. Just ask Marge Schott, David Hasselhoff, opera singer Kathlene Battle, Boy George, Pee-Wee Herman, George Michael, and Jennifer Grey. Your public image matters. Colin Kaepernick demonstrated his unpopular political beliefs and it cost him a valuable, in fact, all but priceless, football career. He should not have been so utterly stupid.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 9/2/2019 9:09:04 AM (No. 169262)
I can't comment because I haven't watched NFL football in three seasons, NONE. If a team wants to kill their hopes of playing other teams with a nuclear toxic person like Brillo Top this would do it. Kaperneck would enter the stadium and all bets would be off booing and garbage throwing on the field would occur. Fans would walk out of the game if they had any sense.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 9/2/2019 9:23:14 AM (No. 169280)
What a beauty contest. Not. The NFL has become a joke because they still espouse the Kaepernick knee dogma, but have failed to engender any new fans. I still have a couple favorite teams in my head, but not in my heart. Buh-bye sukkas. Buh-bye big bucks and 'gold' trophies.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 9/2/2019 9:27:56 AM (No. 169286)
Kaepernik's career is over, and everybody knows it. Occasionally somebody demands some team pick him up, but never a response. Everybody goes silent. They guy is trouble for the bottom line with good reason. Most fans despise him.
Now somebody wants the Colts to pick him up. This is like the third or fourth attempt to find him a team. Its not going to happen.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
udanja99 9/2/2019 9:52:21 AM (No. 169325)
Now it’s time for Nike to dump him too. Especially after the Betsy Ross flag fiasco.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
papasparky 9/2/2019 10:00:20 AM (No. 169337)
Over the years, several quarterbacks have left the field of play because of knee problems acquired there.
Kaperflick is the first one I can recall that left as a result of sliding off the bench onto his knee because of "sweet nothings" whispered into his left ear by a Delilah imitator.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/2/2019 10:05:37 AM (No. 169343)
Kaepernick is the equivalent of Teddy Kennedy after Chappaquidick, damaged forever. In terms of NFL dollars they could have signed ten quarterbacks with what he lost for them.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Italiano 9/2/2019 10:33:42 AM (No. 169366)
I doubt that Lupica would be spewing the same sanctimonious outrage if the QB in question was a MAGA hat-sporting Evangelical Christian.
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What Lupica and other pundits seem to forget are the police as pigs socks he also wore on the field.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Johneboy2 9/2/2019 11:00:05 AM (No. 169396)
Mike ranted for several pages about Colin K being "blacklisted". However, I did not see any mention that CK was not released by SF … he quit. He thought he would make a bigger paycheck on some team that appreciated his disloyalty act. Turns out he was wrong, but it's his own fault he's not employed.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
john56 9/2/2019 11:07:40 AM (No. 169408)
I wish someone would sign him just so we all could remember he wasnt that good.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
DVC 9/2/2019 11:09:14 AM (No. 169411)
Only because is isn't any good as a player.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/2/2019 11:11:56 AM (No. 169416)
Kaepernick was not that good. Fading. Now he is older and he has made himself (with the help of his black radical activist honey) into a one man third rail. Toxic. No team needs that. He should cut his hair, change his name and try to get some kind of real job. Or just lie back and let her support him.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
stablemoney 9/2/2019 11:14:12 AM (No. 169422)
This article is not accurate about the people the Colts are looking at, but the writer has an agenda, and does not care. As for the QB position, that is a relationship between the QB and the coach, team, and fans. Kap rejected that, deciding his priority was his relationship with Mohammed, not his job. That will not work in the NFL.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
bobn.t 9/2/2019 11:17:37 AM (No. 169428)
Colin Krappernut
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
kono 9/2/2019 11:54:32 AM (No. 169456)
Even if ALL the controversy over Kaepernick's protest were to magically go away, his prospects as NFL QB would be nothing more than a fantasy. He had clearly lost even the backup-QB competition on the Niners that preseason and was set to be cut, before he took to the knee (which made any decision to cut him a political and racial one). He was already washed up as a starter then, and the years since then have put him WAY past his expiration date in the league.
The events of his season of protest can be debated; but the league's non-interest in him as a player today are not open to opinion -- he's not even close to being qualified to play now. Even the veritable poster boy of being washed up (T.O.) is way better suited to compete in the NFL now than Kaepernick.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 9/2/2019 12:02:25 PM (No. 169463)
American doesn't need the NFL. But the NFL cannot function without America.
And, neither the NFL nor America need Kaepernick.
And I, personally, have no use for this Mike Lupica guy. I can lecture too.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 9/2/2019 12:23:57 PM (No. 169480)
Regardless of whether or not he can still play, no one is going to hire him because he is what they call "clubhouse poison." No coach is going to bring in a malignancy guaranteed to destroy team moral.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 9/2/2019 12:38:44 PM (No. 169491)
About a year after the Kaperdink kerfuffle started, he actually got offered a contract to play. It was not for one of the glory teams, but he could have been playing. His decision, most likely thanks to his GF, was that his message was more effective if he was unemployed.
The race baiting media has been helping him continue that hoax. He has had chances to play, he chooses not to do so. Thanks #4 for the reminder of who this writer is. I thought he sounded familiar. For those who may have forgotten, Vince McMahon is bringing back his XFL league, and I am betting that not only will it be old school football, but he will not allow the politics of the Left to enter into his league. I cannot wait.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
kdog 9/2/2019 12:44:26 PM (No. 169493)
My favorite part of this episode is how Kaepernick's decision to turn down 49er starting quarterback money to become a free agent was based entirely on his exaggerated opinion of himself as both a football player and social icon. Smart move Einstein.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Czigan 9/2/2019 1:26:08 PM (No. 169518)
I understand that we are in America and that these uneducated knee takers think that the police are racists, even though all the data suggests that the police act in accordance to the threats they encounter and that it is the appropriate response in nearly all the instances. BUT.....those officers of the law who work for cities, counties and states are NOT paid by or under orders from the Feds except in the case of the FBI, and the FBI are not normally involved with lowly street crimes where young black men's lives are shortened. If the uneducated footballers want to protest the flag more closely tied to those law officials, then it should be the flags of the cities, counties and states and NOT the flag of our Military and Federal Government.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 9/2/2019 1:54:56 PM (No. 169543)
Michael Vick got several QB jobs after his dog-fighting (and murdering) conviction and stint in Federal prison (why I'll always despise the Eagles, Phillies and the Steelers), so I could argue that there's something else keeping Kaepernick off any NFL roster. Could it be that he sucked his last season??????
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
vinegrower 9/3/2019 1:01:24 AM (No. 169900)
This article is not only poorly written but the facts are wrong. Kaepernick was the quarterback for one superbowl game but the 49ers lost. Lupica has the outcome wrong. The only reason Kaepernick is not playing is because he got an inflated opinion of his talent and quit. Left the 49ers to get more money and it never happened. Kapernick's last couple of seasons were terrible.
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