Kaepernick Vindicated - Owners Didn’t Want To Offend Trump

The NY Times obtained recordings of a meeting that took place back in October. It looks to me like Kap’s suit against the NFL is going to result in a lot of damages paid to him. 

“Let’s make sure that we keep this confidential,” Commissioner Roger Goodell said to begin the session.

How is that working out for you Goodell?

The New England Patriots owner Robert K. Kraft pointed to another “elephant in the room.”

“This kneeling,” he said.“The problem we have is, we have a president who will use that as fodder to do his mission that I don’t feel is in the best interests of America,” said Kraft, who is a longtime supporter of Mr. Trump’s. “It’s divisive and it’s horrible.”

I believe Trump's buddy is calling him a racist that will exploit racial divisions in the U.S.  If that is what your friends think of you, the reality must be much worse.  

The owners were intent on finding a way to avoid Trump’s continued criticism. The president’s persistent jabs on Twitter had turned many fans against the league. Lurie, who called Trump’s presidency “disastrous,” cautioned against players getting drawn into the president’s tactics. 

“We’ve got to be careful not to be baited by Trump or whomever else,” Lurie said. “We have to find a way to not be divided and not get baited.”

Dude you just got baited into paying Kap hundreds of millions in damages for blackballing him. 

The Buffalo Bills owner Terry Pegula sounded anguished over the uncertainty of when Trump would take another shot at the league."

Pegula offered that he thought the league was battling a perception and “media problem.” He said it would be great for the league to find a compelling spokesman — preferably a player — to promote all of the good things they were doing together. He suggested that the league could learn from the gun lobby in this regard.

“For years we’ve watched the National Rifle Association use Charlton Heston as a figurehead,” Pegula said. “We need a spokesman.”

I hear Laura Ingraham and Dana Loesch are available. 

I suspect Kap will get 100-200 million dollars from the NFL soon in the form of a settlement or judgment. 

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LOL, of course you are entitled to beleive whatever you want Mal but that that sure doesn't make it true and you sure infer a whole lot of things. There's no way in hell CK gets anywhere close to a 100 mil IF he gets anything at all. All the talk about divisiveness has only one commen denominator and that's colin kapernick, the man single handedly divided a nation almost as much as O did in his eight years.

I don't see kapernick's name mentioned, so this conversation has nothing to do with him

I base that number on what a QB of his caliber would normally get. Two years ago, Osweiler got 72 million (37 million guaranteed.) He only ended up playing half a season on that contract.  Last year Mike Glennon got 18.5 million for playing two games for Chicago.  Those guys were unproven compared to Kap.  Alex Smith, the guy Kap replaced in San Francisco because he wasn’t as good as Kap, just got a 4 year 94-million-dollar contract with 71 million guaranteed.  Kap missed two years as a quarterback in his prime how much do you think the damages should be?   (It is essentially a wrongful termination case.)

As I understand it, since the NFL is a monopoly, all Kap has to prove in his case is that two or more owners or one owner and one member of league management got together and discussed not hiring Kap because of his civil rights protest.  This meeting as reported by the New York Times fulfills that requirement. 

If you would have read the article I provided a link to, you would have seen his name mentioned several times.  The URL of the article even has his name in it. 

Kap "in his prime" resulted in a 2-14 record for the 49ers. The NFL's reaction to player protests, while maybe  considered Trump's disgust of the players' behavior, happened after Kap had been rightfully unemployed for a while. The ratings drops and empty seats in the stadiums were/are what the NFL owners were reacting to, much more than Trump tweets. Football fans were reacting to the players' behavior, many more players than Kap, AFTER Kap took his last snap. The NFL's response to misguided protests about the oppression of black people, being made by multi-millionaire players, has not been strong enough. The league will continue to lose fans if they stay on this course.

Those aren’t his career numbers. San Francisco was awful after they canned Harbaugh and purged the talent from their roster. His career numbers are certainly better than a lot of starting QBs and almost all the backups.  If Glennon is worth 18.5 million a year, Kap is certainly worth more. 

No mention of any collusion of keeping kapernick out of the league

Collusion is an act or acts not something you say.  All the owners along with league managment at a meeting coming to the counclusion they coulden't sign Kap becuase it would make Trump mad is collusion. 

Anyone thinking this washed up athlete deserves any money awarded him is as delusional as he is. The ignorance of some people.....