OK You all already know the deal with Colin Kaepernick and his #TakeAKnee protests crap… so I’ll skip to the good stuff.
Quarterback Josh Johnson got signed by The Houston Texans while Kaepernick remains unsigned… the snowflakes came out of their mom’s basement… sorta, to say something.
Come on you #MAGA assholes, make a serious case to me that Josh Johnson is a better NFL quarterback than Colin Kaepernick. Let’s hear it.
— Aaron Schatz ? (@FO_ASchatz) November 7, 2017
I just find it annoying that the Texans, or any team for that matter, would rather wave the white flag than sign a guy who would help them.
— Crashby (@ChrisAshby6) November 7, 2017
Yes, I'm sure Kaepernick is sitting around on his couch eating Funyuns while Josh Johnson has been working out non-stop for four years. https://t.co/a44hy1r4Lf
— Aaron Schatz ? (@FO_ASchatz) November 7, 2017
Bill O'Brien yesterday: Colin Kaepernick "hasn't played in a while"
Texans today: *signs Josh Johnson, who hasn't taken a snap since 2013*
— Tyler Conway (@jtylerconway) November 7, 2017
So let me get this. Texans signed Josh Johnson who hasn’t played since 2011 over Colin Kaepernick who would fit our system perfectly? SMH
— Cameron?? (@CameronBernius) November 7, 2017
He's much more used to losing than Kaepernick. Fits O'Brien's system.
— JoJo Smith-Hickmann (@JoeyHickmann) November 7, 2017
Now they are just f’ing with us because Josh Johnson is the destitute man’s Kaepernick. So much for McGloin “knowing the system.” https://t.co/gclo43gJSW
— Aaron Schatz ? (@FO_ASchatz) November 7, 2017
That's a good point. Josh Johnson was Colin Kaepernick's third-string backup for the 2012 #49ers and he hasn't completed a pass since 2011 but somehow he deserves a roster spot over Kaepernick? https://t.co/9qcf6LIQpz
— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) November 7, 2017
Josh Johnson? Good grief. Texans should be ashamed of themselves.
— Calvin Watkins (@calvinwatkins) November 8, 2017
Joked yesterday that the case for Kaep's mobility was so strong that Texans probably sign…Josh Johnson.
Texans just signed…Josh Johnson
— Jayson Braddock (@JaysonBraddock) November 7, 2017
But according to NBC sports, The 49ers were probably going to cut Colin anyways… so…
As reported by Mike Florio for NBC Sports:
One of the popular narratives regarding Colin Kaepernick’s lingering unemployment is that he has only himself to blame after opting out of his 49ers contract. This flawed assumption overlooks the fact that the 49ers would have cut Kaepernick if he hadn’t opted out.
“HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT?!?!?” some of you have said in response. Here’s how. 49ers G.M. John Lynch said so on Wednesday, in a PFT Live interview to be aired later this week.
“Yes,” Lynch said regarding whether Kaepernick would have been cut if he hadn’t opted out, “and we had that conversation with him. So I don’t want to characterize it as he made a decision to leave here. We both sat down and under that current construct of his deal, it was a big number. [Coach] Kyle [Shanahan] had a vision for what he wanted to do, and one thing I think Kyle was very clear and I think Colin appreciated, is that Kyle has an idea of how he’d play with Colin Kaepernick.”
“But he preferred to run the exact offense that he ran in Atlanta last year that was record-breaking in this league. And if you change it for the quarterback, you change it for everybody on that offense. So he had a great discussion that I think gave Colin clarity, so we moved on. Brian Hoyer was one of the guys we pursued.”
“Once we pursued him, we didn’t see Kaep as a backup that would really fit in that scheme and we communicated that to him. So I think we’ve been very up front with it. But I think that is a fair characterization. Yes, he was not going to be here under the construct of his contract. We gave him the option, ‘You can opt out, we can release you, whatever.’ And he chose to opt out, but that was just a formality.”