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The socks are dumb to get offended over, although I’m not for the shirt. Theres definitely a difference between wearing that shirt, and wearing it to a press conference in Miami. There’s so many lies and half truths surrounding him, and it all makes him look worse. Name 15 QBs that can average his 2016 passing numbers with 7 yards per carry while being the only threat on offense. Jeremy Kerley was the #1 lol.

All I’m saying is he wasn’t trying to antagonize the situation like it’s made out to be. All this stuff happened before his protests, but somehow it turns into “this idiot wore a Castro shirt to a press conference in Miami!”. Lol, no he didn’t. 245 total yds per start, 16/4 (11 starts), 7 yards per carry.....on the worst team in the NFL. I’m sorry, but QBs that got figured out (Joe Webb for example) do not put up those kind of numbers on any team, let alone an expansion team.

Damn thanks for bringing this up, I almost forgot. Both of these instances were portrayed as Kaep antagonizing the situation, but that too is a lie. He he never walked into a press conference in Miami wearing a Castro shirt lol. He wore it during an offseason press conference in SF. What happened was a Miami reporter decided to get into a pissing match with him over the shirt before the Dolphins game. He also didn’t come to practice wearing pig socks to make a statement during his protests. He wore those in a practice long before his protests. The socks were never brought up as offensive until after his protest. That’s when the images resurfaced.

Another thing with Kaep is he is definitely a middle pack sarter. You can go on and on about Blaine, but their career numbers (and 2016 numbers) just make it a dumb comparison. Blaine outplayed Kaep one season (2015). His best was barely better than Kaeps worst. Warner backed up Leinart at one point, it means nothing. When look at Kaeps career numbers on a per throw basis (Passer rating, YPA, TD%, int%) he’s right there with any “good” QB. He actually has the 2nd lowest int % in the history of the NFL (Rodgers #1). In 2016 he averaged 245 total yards per start, had a 16/4 TD/int in 11 starts, and averaged 7 yds per carry. This was on what basically amounts to an expansion team. Kerley was our best WR, and we had guys like Chris Harper, Blake Bell, and Rod Streater getting major playing time. Oh and Chip Kelly and the 32nd ranked defense in points and yards. Just an absolutely awful team, and it gets glossed over so we can blame Kaep for it. There aren’t 32 QBs that could put those numbers up in that situation, coming off 3 surgeries. There aren’t 32 QBs with his career numbers either.

I came here to see what you guys were saying about Brown (he’s on my fantasy team and fan forums usually have the best info on a player), and ran into this thread. Im a 49er fan man. I wouldn’t know this much detail about the situation otherwise. You can look up everything I said for verification, it’s all true. There’s obviously no link saying Baalke held Kaep out in 2016 so he could keep Kaep healthy and cut him, but when Kap magically finally being healthy enough to start just so happens to be the week he dropped the injury clause from his contract — it’s pretty easy to connect the dots. Remember, he was only on the team in 2016 because of the injury clause. Baalke would have cut him during that offseason if he didn’t get injured in 2015. Restructuring his contract put Baalke at ease and allowed him to play again.

The Ravens were never going to sign Kaep, and that’s why his gf sent that tweet out. Watch Ray Lewis on undisputed the day before that tweet ( it’s on YouTube). There is no way he was pushing to sign Kap. Dude was doing damage control because Biscotti was not going to sign him. Skip asked him him if he would take Kap over Mallett (Ravens backup at the time) and Ray says “I don’t know, I never played with either of them” lmfao. Then he gets butt hurt over the tweet and comes out like “we were just about to sign him!!”. lmao, yea. The guy that couldn’t even admit Kaep is better than Mallett was pushing for him to get signed lol. Good one. Na I’m done. Just thought I’d inform the obviously uninformed

Now for the offers. There were none. Seahawks was a meeting that ended with no contract offer because “Kaepernick is a starter”. That was Pete carols reason. The Broncos tried to trade for Kaep in the 2016 offseason while he was injured. They never offered him a contract after his kneeling. Kind of weird that Elway was willing to trade picks for him after his worst season and 3 surgeries, but didn’t even contact him after a much, much better 2016 season in which he stayed healthy, and didn’t even have to give picks up for him. I wonder what changed lol

Now for the “He opted out of his contract!” crowd. He did, but it was because his contract was no longer guaranteed, and he was informed by Lynch that they were cutting him anyways. He opted out to hit the FA market earlier. https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/05/31/john-lynch-49ers-would-have-cut-kaepernick-if-he-hadnt-opted-out/ “Yes,” Lynch said regarding whether Kaepernick would have been cut if he hadn’t opted out, “and we had that conversation with him.”

Here’s where things get tricky. Blaine ran all of OTAs while Kaep recovered from his surgeries. Kaep was never fully recovered even in August of 2016, as he missed half of TC because he wasn’t ready. Blaine was named the starter. When questioned why Kap wasn’t playing, Kelly always referred to his weight and health. There was always some weird excuse. The real reason was Baalke did not want him to get hurt again. That would guarantee his 2017 salary and Baalke would not be able to cut him. The week Kaepernick restructured his contract and dropped the injury clause, he took over the starting role. That is not a coincidence. So he did play bad on 2015 and lose his job, but Blaine was never better than him, and only started in 2016 because of the injury clause.

I will do this step by step. Kaep did lose his job in 2015. He was playing hurt (went on I.R. and had 3 surgeries), had the corpse of Boldin as a #1, and had Jim Tomsula (who?) as a HC. He played terribly, no question, and Blaine happened to be the backup. Blaine started the rest of 2015. Notes for next post: Baalke (49ers GM at the time) Hated Kaep and Harbaugh. He already fired Harbaugh for no reason and Kaep was next. Kaep would have been cut before 2016, but his contract had an injury clause that guaranteed the following years salary, so he Baalkes plans to cut Kaep were foiled. Kaep had to be on the team in 2016 because he was guaranteed 12 mil.