OT - Ravens sign David Olson over Colin Kaepernick
The Ravens have signed quarterback David Olson to participate in training camp with Joe Flacco nursing a back injury. Olson joins Ryan Mallett and Dustin Vaugh at Ravens camp.
David Olson is a former Champions Indoor Football league quarterback. He played for the Wichita Force and led the team to a league title, winning MVP of Champions Bowl II. He was also the QB at Stanford under the tutelage Jim Harbaugh
Colin also was a famously coached by Jim Harbaugh.
Speculation yesterday was that John Harbaugh would pick up Colin – if he agreed to the contract and conditions for the QB competition. Sounds like the contract offer -- and level of participation -- was more in line with Olson’s needs.
Boring day; the comments should be interesting.
*** Edit - I saw the headline this morning and didn't see the John Harbaugh thread. Was looking for Kap in the OP titles.
Every NFL coach and GM is hoping and praying that once the regular season starts their backup QB will NEVER see the field except maybe in mop-up duty. Thus talent is not the only criteria in selecting a backup QB.
while most believe their analytics are among the best, they completely missed the mark on thier prediction for the 2016 Presidential election: they predicted Hillary had a 71.6% chance of winning - on election eve - and that Donald had a meager 28.6% chance. And we know the actual results were. Nonetheless, other analyses reveal Kaepernick to be subpar, and others such at 538 that state he is one of the best available quarterbacks for 2017. Let's hope he finds a home here in the NFL and not in the CFL.
I'd rather see someon like Olson get a chance instead of a multi millionaire who is financially set for multiple generations.
I think its pretty much an unwritten NFL rule that the clipboard holders should be as close to invisible as possible, not wearing a flashing neon look-at-me-sign over their head.
didn't Kaeperrnick have years left on his contract and then he decided he wanted to be a free agent and had it redone ?
I don't like Kaepernick one bit and I completely agree he's being blackballed. Because there's a very good reason he's not being signed: NFL owners rather rightly fear he's going to turn off a large segment of their customer base.
I don't see why owners shouldn't have the right not to sign someone.
wiould help buttress your position. However, a Rasmussen poll taken Oct. 2 - Oct 3 of 1000 online respondants revealed the following:
- 13% said they would more likely watch an NFL game because of the petulant protests
- 32% said they would be less likely to watch an NFL game for the same reason
- 35% of the women in the poll said they'd be less likley to wacth, whereas 8% said they'd be more likely
Further, viewership per game was down:
2016 = 17.6 million
2015 = 19.6 million
2014 = 19,2 million
The facts lead to the conclusion that more people tuned out NFL games than tuned in because of the disrespectful and iimmature antics while the national anthem played. Further, outreach efforts to attract more women viewers were circumvented by the snowflakes that don NFL uniforms. The reduction in viewership has nothing to do with commericals - either the length or number of them or both - as the viewership was increasing year over year until the SJW's of the gridiron made fools of themselves whilst the anthem played. Still, there's little doubt he should be on an NFL roster this season.
If the NFL wanted to hide his protest, you know that they could.
Why do the owners have a right to exist? Why do they have the right to anti-trust exemption?
Who the fuck are the owners? How are they owners? Who pays for the stadiums? Who pays every single penny that comes in? Even when billionaire owners paid or pay for their own stadiums or portions of them, they get loans to do it. Loans that non rich people wouldn't and couldn't get. Loans that citizens groups wanting to be worker owned co-op owners of teams or stadiums wouldn't get.
32 slave owning racist public scamming pieces of shit get HALF the fucking money that the PLAYERS generate and the fans pay? Nobody has a constitutional right to be licensed as a corporation.
The design and intent was that corporations get the BENEFITS from the people, of being a corporation, ONLY if the entity was a public good and acted for the good of society, otherwise they got the corporate death penalty, and it used to happen on a regular basis in the early days.
Why do cities and states let them hold them hostage, threaten to leave, to leave, and to blackmail into public payments? How about fuck you we won't let you operate in our cities or states? How about if we pay for a fucking stadium we'll put our own team in it and run our own league?
How about we lease or build the stadiums for a player owned league that could cut the prices in half, of tickets, parking, food and merch by simply FIRING the tiny cabal of 32 corporate welfare cheating crooks, the middle men/pimps skimming half the money, standing between you and your football teams!?
The anthem stands for the government that has NEVER not oppressed and fucked his people, and if you're ignorant and juvenile love for the flag and anthem means it's more offensive to you that he protests it, than it is that the country and government the anthem represents has done and is still doing the things, and has allowed what has happened to black people in this country, to happen, then you're a despicable fuck.
If there was another country that somehow caused the mass of white America to be subjected to the treatment and forced or caused circumstances that black American lives in and has always lived in, for even a single fucking day, there would be at least 95% support from white America to respond with all out nuclear attack of said country!
Yet not only hasn't black America gone to war against this country, like you would in their shoes in a hundredth of a heartbeat, but you act like the mildest possible form of silent and peaceful protest to 500 years of slavery, tyranny & degradation is a fucking outrage that you have the right to be offended by!!!
Look at the hatred of Iran and everyone else you're stupid enough to hate for the benefit of the worst corporate criminals in human history, what in the fuck has any of them done to you or us? Do you seriously think there's any justification for your feelings against them at all, or that they have somehow wronged us in a way that's even one one zillionth as much as we have wronged black people? Are you fucking crazy?
Do you really not know the history? That we overthrew their first democratically elected president and installed, funded, armed and backed a brutal dictator for 30 fucking years until the revolution? How's that for "election meddling"?
Then when the response to our rescuing, protecting, harboring and giving medical care to the criminal against humanity dictator, was to take a handful of US officials hostage, officials who helped, worked with and oversaw the dictator and his tyranny, again, an unbelievably mild response/protest, compared to the all out war that we would launch or try to, if anyone had done that to us, THAT's what makes THEM the bad guys? THAT is why WE hate THEM?
Think about that you wonderful soul, when they finally break free of decades long tyranny, again supported by the US and Great Britain, for the benefit of BP and Standard Oil, by electing Mossadegh, we steal their government and give them 30 years of a dictator, they reply with one year of holding 50 individual assholes, and for that we give close to 40 years of hate, demonizing, sanctions, threats and virtual war, with no end in sight!
PSU fans loved their icons, symbols and leaders too, and don't like that they were "pissed on," but in that case you're willing to recognize that they needed to be pissed on. Why isn't their love of Paterno & PSU football as worthy of being sensitive to and worried about more than being worried about the victims, as is the anthem/country rather than its victims? Maybe 15 victims are worse than 45 million now and god knows how many since 1492? Oddly enough the PSU victims were black too, but in this case football rivalry trumps all so THESE black victims suddenly get your sympathy or feigned sympathy! It sounds like if PSU had happened here, with Bo, you'd be EXACTLY like the weeping Ped St. fans demanding the statue back! At least if you were morally, ethically and logically consistent.
This stupid thread should be deleted.
The NFL and Kaepernick have nothing to do with University of Michigan sports.
People are attacking each other in the thread above.
zero loyalty, commonly lack of integrity, commonly character flaws...
the opposite of M.
I believe he is at 100% health-wise, and thus given his proven skill sets and accomplishments as a 49'er, NFL teams in need of a top quality backup with starting potential are missing out big time. It seems like the owners simply don't want to piss off more fans than would be pleased by adding Colin. A shameful waste of talent.