Harbaugh defends Kaepernick - says he will win Championships
Do you ever think Harbaugh's players worry about him having their backs? The embattled Colin Kaepernick seems to be having a hard time finding a new squad. This has caused his old 49er coach to say (as quoted in PFT Live tonight): "I'll tell you the same thing I tell them: I think he's an outstanding player and a great competitor who has proven it in games....He'll have a great career and be a great quarterback, win championships"
Loyalty when a man really needs it, is never forgotten by those in need, and for those truly paying attention. Love it.
I haven't read the exact quotes but I thought he said "could win championships". I mean, Trent Dilfer won a championship...so he's not wrong.
This thread gonna be good.
March 22nd, 2017 at 10:13 AM ^
I'd like to propose a name change for you; "I'maGoblin"
What say you?
The only way Kaepernick could win championships is if Harbaugh were his coach.
Harbaugh must be implying he's going back to the NFL! Omg!
March 21st, 2017 at 11:37 PM ^
It's the only way. No other coach could reach him and teach him like Harbaugh.
Glad coach is loyal, Kaep is just not good. Harbaugh is good. Without Jim, he won't have success.
March 21st, 2017 at 10:05 PM ^
With God-awful QB coaching last year and a supporting cast second only to my Browns for sheer awfullness here were Kaps stats last year
QB rating 90.7
TDs: 16
Ints: 4
Seems pretty good to me. Shit, I'd take him here in Cleveland all day long over any of the three QBs in the draft or even the future hall of famer Jimmy Garrapolo but sadly he's poison right now so my guess is he's going to have a hard time finding an owner willing to face the fan (and Presidential) backlash that will come with signing him.
March 21st, 2017 at 11:09 PM ^
Interesting how the knee gets straightened when he is looking for a job. No coincidence I'm sure
March 21st, 2017 at 11:35 PM ^
It's a nonstory now given the ADHD nature of 24/7 news cycles. Kaepernick did his job and brought attention to his cause. Donated a million dollars and put his money where his mouth is.
Just donated another 50 thousand dollars to Meals on Wheels today, but he's still maligned by jingoist blowhards and by the moron in the White House.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/kaepernick-50g-donation-time…
Please. People act like Kaepernick committed treason or something...
March 21st, 2017 at 11:39 PM ^
He can take his "cause" somewhere else. He had no business using the national anthem as his soap box. If I tried to pull shit like that at my work, I would get fired. I just wish the NFL had the balls to fine him for it. Or at least fine him for the socks he would wear that portrayed cops as pigs. A Lions player wore pink socks a few years ago for breast cancer awareness and got fined, but I guess disrespecting authority is okay nowadays.
March 21st, 2017 at 11:44 PM ^
They play the national anthem at your job?
Pledge of allegiance? Maybe a teacher? Do they still do the pledge to start the day?
Yes, but of course, teachers and students can't be punished legally for refusing to participate either, so that wouldn't bolster his argument about getting fired.
March 21st, 2017 at 11:53 PM ^
Whether you like it or not, sports have a bigger platform (unlike your job, no offense) to reach a wider audience. I wonder if you would also complain about these three b/c the 2 US guys got grilled and the Australian guy got blacklisted from his country until 2012. These days I doubt many would take issue with their protest.
Some athletes use the platform, some don't. The attention was a net positive for forgotten communities that also happen to be represented by our anthem.
March 22nd, 2017 at 12:50 AM ^
"sports have a bigger platform (unlike your job, no offense)"
Wow, you sound like a douche...
Unless you are in front of millions of people on TV each week, he is not incorrect. Did you actually understand what he said? I assume you did as you quoted him
Nah, he's just salty about the UGA-Mitchell thread.
Nope, just making a joke again. You take this stuff way too serious.
March 22nd, 2017 at 10:15 AM ^
I think maybe you should work on your understanding of the definitiion of the word "joke". Maybe.
Please go on...
I just said he sounds like a douche, did you not understand?
So do you.
March 22nd, 2017 at 11:13 AM ^
Ah yes, because only a douche would point out that an athlete has a larger platform for protest than a regular citizen. Wait, what?
"Wait, what?"
Exactly.
March 22nd, 2017 at 12:22 AM ^
If your work fired you for freedom of speech and your right to protest you would have a very nice lawsuit win coming your way.
At all the places I've ever worked, if I said my boss was a dickhead or I said in public that my company was selling an immoral product, I'd be gone by the end of the day. And there's no lawsuit win in my future for that. I think you need to qualify that a bit.
if your boss even suspects you have political views they don't like. There are specific protections spelled out based on gender, race, religion, etc. They don't apply to exercizing your freedom of speech or many other things you may take for granted.
March 22nd, 2017 at 11:54 AM ^
The First Amendment protects you from adverse actions taken by the Government . It does not protect you if your boss fires you after you call him an asshole.
Are you doing an impression of a useful idiot? If not you should stop.
don't like an opposing opinion so right to the personal attack. Got it.
Right on. Hey billybrown - you need an avatar...here you go, with signature...
"LA LA LA...CAN'T HEAR YOU...LA LA LA...NOT LISTENING..."
I see that the authoritarians have joined the thread. Excellent.
"Kapernick will be remembered more for his protest than his football accomplishments."
Giving a louder voice for those that don't have it is more important than TD/INT ratios.
March 22nd, 2017 at 10:08 AM ^
his stats are above average, but the hate he gets will have you thinking he had the worst season in NFL history last year. Perception is not reality with Kaep. Guys smack around women and get new contracts, yet a guy stands up for a cause he believes in and yet he cant get signed? Crazy world we live in.
"but he's still maligned by jingoist blowhards and by the moron in the White House."
I love how the mods see no issue with stuff like that but would immediately lock the thread if this was said 1 year ago.
Wanted Beilein fired too. Takes a Moron to know a Moron I guess.
When you demean the entire law enforcement profession, you are expressing a view which runs contrary to the opinions of the vast majority of Americans. No one should be surprised by the perfectly justified reaction to Kaepernick. Both he and those who can't stand him have a right to express themselves, and a potential employer certainly has a right to take all of it into account when making a hiring decision.
March 22nd, 2017 at 11:19 PM ^
"Kap" sucks. Harbaugh's comments are inaccurate and won't get a disrespectful shithead like him signed. Leave your political views off the board. No one cares.
March 22nd, 2017 at 12:20 AM ^
Fuck off
That's what America is telling this jerk off QB.
He deserves it.
I didn't watch one MFL game last year because of all the political BS. The NFL use to be an escape from reality, now it has become a joke. Of course it doesn't help that my team is the browns...
You're right, America needs way less of assholes like this
Colin Kaepernick Foundation announces donations of $50K each to Meals on Wheels & Love Army For Somalia. Has donated $500K of $1M pledge.
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) March 21, 2017
Colin Kaepernick helped get a plane to Somalia that's expected to hold 60 tons of food to help end the famine. https://t.co/E78NFtfrlZ
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) March 18, 2017
March 22nd, 2017 at 10:10 AM ^
People hate facts...lol
March 22nd, 2017 at 11:17 AM ^
You know what else is funny? He also donated 25k to a veterans foundation in Brooklyn. I'm sure that's 10x more beneficial than standing up for a national anthem and superficially pretending to give a shit about them.
But hey this is America, fake symbolism > actual substance!
Yeah, he needs image rehab.
Was he doing this in 2016?
March 22nd, 2017 at 10:18 AM ^
I think this "jerk off QB" has done much more for America than you likely ever have.
March 21st, 2017 at 11:31 PM ^
His numbers across the board were bad.
Cody Kessler had better stats with the Browns than Kaepernick. Higher completion percentage, qurterback rating, YPA.
Football outsiders has a stat like WAR for QB's. Kaepernick was 26th out of 30.
March 22nd, 2017 at 10:14 AM ^
90.4 quarterback rating and a 16-4 TD/INT ratio is bad? We're not even talking about being a starter, there's about 75 jobs for QB's in the NFL. You can't tell me he is not one of the 75 best QB's in the world. I find it pretty alarming that just because people don't like his politics that they will have the take that he doesn't belong in the league.
If Vince Young doesn't work out
Brook Lopez just took eleventy steps before beating the Pistons at the buzzer. The only thing worse than college basketball refereeing is professional basketball refereeing.