Terms not announced.
Hopefully, teams will stop discriminating against a player for peacefully using his 1st Amendment rights.
Yeah, the dude wants $20 million to play in the freaking AAF. He's a clown who is too arrogant to realize he's not good.
**note, this post has nothing to do with politics - RJ, do not have a shit fit
Word is the settlement is between 60 and 80 million.
Makes sense. NFL was clearly going to get hosed if the process went to its fullest extent.
If he got paid that much money, that's insane. Again, he got beaten out for a job by Blaine Gabbert. You're telling me he would have somehow made $60-$80 million over the last two years? He made $14.3 million his last year of playing. Let's say some team gave him a generous offer of $10 million a year for his next contract, despite how bad he was. He's now getting 3-4 times that as a settlement. I guess somehow that's attributed to some sort of "pain and suffering" or lost wages?
This has also given him a massive increase in popularity (again despite sucking on the field), resulting in the Nike and other endorsement deals. It's great to see the NFL look shitty, but it's funny how people portray Kaep as a victim here. He does seem like a genuinely good guy though, and hopefully he'll do a lot of charitable work with the money to further his causes.
Before today that made a lot of sense. If he had signed for less, his settlement with the NFL would likely have been impacted.
Furthermore, he's worth more than that to the AAF. He'd be their first big name, would add to their gate revenue and ad revenues.
But why use logic or business sense?
Yes, I'm sure a fledgling league/team, who pays their players $250,000 over 3 years (non-guaranteed), should fork over $20M guaranteed to someone was last beaten out for a job by Blaine Gabbert.
#RJlogic
If he got paid that much money, that's insane. Again, he got beaten out for a job by Blaine Gabbert. You're telling me he would have somehow made $60-$80 million over the last two years? He made $14.3 million his last year of playing. Let's say some team gave him a generous offer of $10 million a year for his next contract, despite how bad he was. He's now getting 3-4 times that as a settlement. I guess somehow that's attributed to some sort of "pain and suffering" or lost wages?
This has also given him a massive increase in popularity (again despite sucking on the field), resulting in the Nike and other endorsement deals. It's great to see the NFL look shitty, but it's funny how people portray Kaep as a victim here. He does seem like a genuinely good guy though, and hopefully he'll do a lot of charitable work with the money to further his causes.
Would be really interesting to see what the confidentiality clause looks like. The NFL obviously isn’t going to let Kaep disclose terms of the agreement and his discussions with NFL teams post kneeling. But wonder if it also tries to silence him on making statements about racial injustice in a way that continues to keep the NFL in a bad spotlight, since what they’re really paying for is to make the issue go away. But if Kaep agreed to something really broad where he gets out of the racial injustice conversation altogether, then it’s a big sellout move by him.