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Kaepernik/NFL reach settlement

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Terms not announced.

Hopefully, teams will stop discriminating against a player for peacefully using his 1st Amendment rights.
 
Terms not announced.

Hopefully, teams will stop discriminating against a player for peacefully using his 1st Amendment rights.

HMMM, they settled with Eric Reid also, so was he discriminated against too? No because he plays for the Panthers and is actually good
 
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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
 
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

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
 
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.
 
 
Makes sense. NFL was clearly going to get hosed if the process went to its fullest extent.

Eh, a large piece of the money is also to move on and change the conversation hence the confidentially agreement. The NFL is smarter than Matt Kuchar.
 
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.
 
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.

Punitives would be more likely that pain and suffering.
 
The NFL takes in $14 billion a year in revenue. A $60 million settlement is less than $2 million per team. That is nuisance value to the NFL. Worth it to make the issue go away as the deal has to include an iron-clad non-disclosure clause.
 
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?

FALSE!

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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

While he’s a system guy, he’s better than almost all back up qbs in the nfl right now. The redskins could’ve won the nfc east last year had Smith not gone down, but they rolled out shit back up after shit backup. He could’ve helped them. But they’d rather claim chronic domestic abusers.
 
And he wasn’t beaten out by Gabbert. Kaepernick started the 15 season and was replaced by gabbert in like week 5 or 6. The 49ers also happened to have the most under qualified head coach in nfl history at the helm and lasted only 1 year.
 
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.



This is a remarkably dumb take.

Look at Joe Flacco's career production and salary history. Compare to Kaep.

$60-$80MM is a low-end estimate on what Kaep would have made riding out the rest of his post-Super Bowl career using his passer rating as a guide...
 
tigerswood is definitely not triggered by this news, y’all
 
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.
 
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.

hence why we should probably wait before passing any sellout-related judgments
 
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