"In the $60M-$80M range"
I guess the NFLFU has reached a point where it's willing to pay tens of millions of dollars to make problems go away rather than deal with them. Whatever.
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Yeah, this thread is a bad idea.
Pretty sure the problem is the NFL and military worship for a few more bucks.
Sounds like a national emergency to me
They should have built a 30 foot wall around Kapernick. Then nobody could see if he was standing or kneeling.
It appears that the NFL was motivated by fear. Every teams books, email, texts, etc would have been available during the discovery phase leading up to the trial. I can only imagine what might have been discovered on Jerry Jones, deceased Texans owner, etc internal communications. Apparently it’s the first time the NFL has settled (at least a major case) instead of using its power to force its preferred solution.
This was it's preferred solution. Making the issue go away.
Where are you getting "in the $60-$80 million range"??
ammo posted:They should have built a 30 foot wall around Kapernick. Then nobody could see if he was standing or kneeling.
The Snoopy blimp sees all
The NFL should have been motivated by fear and this would have been an easy case to litigate and win with damages far greater than a settlement. In the end, it’s only money but for a business that can literally sit back and print money they (owners and commish) really make some stupid decisions. It’s really amazing to sit back and watch just how badly they **** some things up.
ammo posted:They should have built a 30 foot wall around Kapernick. Then nobody could see if he was standing or kneeling.
As long as they didn’t hire Compers to build it.
Boris posted:Where are you getting "in the $60-$80 million range"??
Here's one source:
NFL paid Kaepernick 60-to-80-million in collusion settlement
Mike Freeman admits in his tweet that's just speculation. Seems to be a consensus that it's likely $50 million or more and the league probably views that as a reasonable price to pay to make it disappear.
Maybe they should stop black balling players for money because it makes some of their fans go poopy.
Kind of like the concussion settlement? The NFL has zero integrity. They preach “protecting the shield” which basically means adopting a strict means to end financial philosophy over anything else.
They don’t care about the players. They can (and have) held cities hostage. Hell, I’m not sure they care about the fans. They care about making money. And not just making money- but obscene profits.
At some point the gravy train will end and it will be spectacular to watch.
Henry posted:Maybe they should stop black balling players for money because it makes some of their fans go poopy.
Or maybe he was not worth a hiring. He really was not all that good toward the end anyway. What kap done was more like blackmail than black ball.
PackerPatrick posted:Henry posted:Maybe they should stop black balling players for money because it makes some of their fans go poopy.
Or maybe he was not worth a hiring. He really was not all that good toward the end anyway. What kap done was more like blackmail than black ball.
He was not a top 15 QB anymore, but did you see some of the guys that got shots to play again before he did? Mark Sanchez? Josh Johnson hadn't thrown a pass in 5 years and was never any good - but he got signed by the Redskins because they wanted a running QB? TJ Yates? Brett Hundley?
The NFL settled because they were going to lose. All you had to do was watch tape on some of these backup QBs.
The NFL didn't settle with Tom Brady for deflating footballs and that was as dumb a suspension as you'll ever see.
Of course his lawyer is going to say this. I wonder if there is any truth to it?
Colin Kaepernick’s Lawyer Predicts NFL Teams Will Show Interest In His Client “Within Next Two Weeks” https://t.co/m3kuLvrhKl pic.twitter.com/qwGIQgTaYJ
— NFLTradeRumors.co (@nfltrade_rumors) February 17, 2019
PackerPatrick posted:Henry posted:Maybe they should stop black balling players for money because it makes some of their fans go poopy.
Or maybe he was not worth a hiring. He really was not all that good toward the end anyway. What kap done was more like blackmail than black ball.
1) Have you seen the QB talent around this league? To say Kaepernick isn't at least a back up QB is absurd.
2) How do you explain Eric Reid then?
Not exactly sure how NFL collusion is black mail when they stripped him of his career because of a social stance.
Hey if it impacts the ratings that’s what matters, right?
Not necessarily a Kaepernick fanboy, but he’s still probably good enough to start for a few teams and at a minimum back up a lot more teams.
The kneeling didn't impact the ratings.
Lotta bluster, but the number who actually stopped watching was negligible. And was offset by new fans as the league continues to grow.
Let’s see if we can say this without the usual dumdums getting all wet in the panties...
It’s probably been long enough now, and the media has had enough other drums to beat, that he can probably find his way onto a roster. Agree with his stance or not, I think NFL coaches had a case to avoid the circus that would have followed him on their roster in the immediate aftermath of his statements. I don’t think that’s the case anymore. Whether he can still play may be another topic- it has been 3 years- but I don’t think his name brings as much of the nonsense with it as it might have before.
The nonsense that most sensible folks are paying attention to now are being generated by special junior congress members and deals shaded in green...
Once everybody but Capers figured out Kaepernick, he became no better than Tebow, but with views that the sportswriters liked.
Music City posted:The nonsense that most sensible folks are paying attention to now are being generated by special junior congress members and deals shaded in green...
Sensible folks typically do not pay attention to nonsense.
Fedya posted:Once everybody but Capers figured out Kaepernick, he became no better than Tebow, but with views that the sportswriters liked.
Even Capers finally figured him out the last time they played him in 2015. 49ers only scored 3 points in that one.
Hungry5 posted:Music City posted:The nonsense that most sensible folks are paying attention to now are being generated by special junior congress members and deals shaded in green...
Sensible folks typically do not pay attention to nonsense.
To ignore what’s going on in our own Congress would be a mistake...
To ignore the nonsense going on in the White House would be worse.
Timmy! posted:Boris posted:Where are you getting "in the $60-$80 million range"??
Here's one source:
NFL paid Kaepernick 60-to-80-million in collusion settlement
No one should ever believe a single thing they read on Breitbart.
Herschel posted:Timmy! posted:Boris posted:Where are you getting "in the $60-$80 million range"??
Here's one source:
NFL paid Kaepernick 60-to-80-million in collusion settlement
No one should ever believe a single thing they read on Breitbart.
It's Infowars or nothing for me.
Coulter thinks Colin is a border savant.
The amount of stupid in high places in this country is concerning.
Never been more important to teach our kids to read, everything, gather facts, investigate, ask questions, question answers, then question facts.
Education will always win. Education is absolutely everything.
Stupidity know no political bounds.
Local TV for me is a state capital in a mid-sized media market (Albany, NY), and it's astonishing how much of the "news" is either the police blotter of people who haven't been convicted of anything, or press releases from political pressure groups.
Live PD is a weekly reminder we have a long, long, long, LONG way to go to evolve as a country.
ChilliJon posted:Education will always win. Education is absolutely everything.
Actual education, yes. Not the joke that passes for it today...
Yeah, too bad Trump University went belly up.
That's exactly what we need.
Have to agree with MC here, education will be a joke until all children agree with me, it's really the only barometer worth its salt anymore. Bonus points if we can hate things we don't understand but are popular for like thinkers like me to hate.
Our benevolent billionaires will take care of it though.
Learning is cheap. Teaching isn’t. Learn how to reverse them. That’s education.
ChilliJon posted:Live PD is a weekly reminder we have a long, long, long, LONG way to go to evolve as a country.
Love that show.
El-Ka-Bong posted:Have to agree with MC here, education will be a joke until all children agree with me, it's really the only barometer worth its salt anymore. Bonus points if we can hate things we don't understand but are popular for like thinkers like me to hate.
Our benevolent billionaires will take care of it though.
You keep thinking you aren’t a pretentious douchebag...
Educated in Wisconsin, had to google the definition of 3 of those words.
And don't get me started on science. God created the earth with dinosaur bones already in it, but he tricked the loser scientists by making them think the dinosaurs died of vaccines.
My comment was not meant as a political one. Rather it’s a condemnation of the threat of legal action by a person who tries to get what he or she wants by threat of legal action. Some entities decide to avoid that by paying them off, that’s why I used the word blackmail. Besides, I think that Mr. Kaepernick knew that he was not wanted in NFL lockerooms. It’s “hey look at me, I am so very important!”. Sign me! What team want to have to deal with that nonsense? I also find that wearing cartoon pigs dressed as cops revolting as do most people.
PackerPatrick posted:I also find that wearing cartoon pigs dressed as cops revolting as do most people.
Have to agree. Overgeneralizing and shitting on an entire profession is a real asshole thing to do.