#RolandMartinUnfiltered - Here's What Really Happened With The Kaepernick Workout In Atlanta ...

Episode Date: November 20, 2019

Colin Kaepernick had his workout on Saturday, but not the one the NFL had planned. He switched his workout location at the last minute from the Atlanta Falcons' training facility to a high school .From the 25 teams that were apparently scheduled to be at the training facility for the workout, about six teams were able to make it to the new location. Sports Journalist Howard Bryant attended Kaepernick's workout in Atlanta and spoke with Roland Martin during Monday's edition of #RolandMartinUnfiltered about the controversy surrounding the free agent QB and the league. Watch the 11.18.19 edition of #RolandMartinUnfiltered https://youtu.be/HjEOc9W_Gto - #RolandMartinUnfiltered partner: 420 Real Estate, LLC To invest in 420 Real Estate’s legal Hemp-CBD Crowdfunding Campaign go to http://marijuanastock.org - 📘 Check out #RolandsBookClub and some of his favorite tech gear http://ow.ly/M5zF50uJPam ✅ NOW AVAILABLE: #RolandMartinUnfiltered Merch - https://bit.ly/2VYdQok ✅ Subscribe to the #RolandMartin YouTube channel https://t.co/uzqJjYOukP ✅ Join the #RolandMartinUnfiltered #BringTheFunk Fan Club to support fact-based independent journalism http://ow.ly/VRyC30nKjpY ✅ Join the Roland Martin and #RolandMartinUnfiltered mailing list http://ow.ly/LCvI30nKjuj - Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an iHeart Podcast. So by going to RolandMartinOnFilter.com, you can make this possible. Colin Kaepernick, who's been denied a job in the NFL for three years, held a workout on Saturday, but it was not the one the NFL originally organized. They called him earlier in the week to do so. It was very last minute. It was supposed to take place at the Atlanta Falcons training facility, but then it had to be moved to a high school named after Charles Drew. 25 teams were supposed to be at the Falcons workout, but about eight teams made it to the secondary workout.

What the heck actually happened this weekend? First off, I'm going to show you what Kaepernick had to say after the workout. Press play. It's important that y'all are here. Y'all been attacked for the last three years. Y'all continue to be attacked. We appreciate what y'all do. We appreciate you being here today. We appreciate the work you do for the people and telling the truth.

That's what we want and everything. I've been ready for three years. I've been denied for three years. We all know why I came out here, showed it today in front of everybody. We have nothing to hide. So we're waiting for the 32 owners, the 32 teams, Roger Goodell, all of them to stop running, stop running from the truth, stop running from the people around here. We're ready to play, ready to go anywhere. My agent Jeff Nally is ready to talk to any team interview a team at any time. I've been ready. I'm staying ready and I'll continue to be ready. And to all the people that came out here today to support, I appreciate y'all.

I love y'all. To the people that aren't here, I'm thinking of you. I appreciate you supporting from where you are. We'll continue to give you updates as we hear. We'll be waiting to hear from Roger Goodell, the NFL, the 32 teams. We'll let you know if we hear from them. Ball's in their court. We're ready to go.

Howard Bryant of ESPN was actually there in Atlanta. He joins us right now. Howard, this was crazy. I said from the outset that the die was cast the moment this workout was scheduled. Here's Colin Kaepernick. Settles his lawsuit back in February. You don't hear from the NFL for nine months. All of a sudden, they get a phone call, hey, workout, Atlanta,

3 p.m. Saturday, be there. I mean, that's essentially how crazy this was. Execs didn't know what was going on. Teams didn't know what was going on. Workouts normally don't happen on a Saturday, which is a busy day in the NFL. The second busiest day of the week normally happens on a Tuesday. Then we have the drama with who's going to be there, who's he throwing to, who's going to be leading the workouts. Is the media loud? Is it private? Is it open? Who's shooting video? And then, of course, this waiver. This was a mess that the NFL knew was going to be a mess the moment they suggested it.

Well, not only was it a mess, Rowan, but at the start, the minute last Tuesday when the NFL called the Kaepernick team and told them of this workout, the very first thing the Kaepernick team said was, well, wait a minute, we haven't heard from you since the winter. How about we take a little bit of time, step back, and do this the right way? How about we do it next Saturday or So we have, or next Tuesday, which is a work day for the NFL, because on a Saturday, you've got the coaches preparing

for the next day's game. You've got the GMs preparing for the next day's game and the next week's game. And you've got all the head major scouts watching the college football games. The NFL said no to that. The Kaepernick team came back

and then they counted, well, let's do it. If Saturday back and then they counted well let's do it if saturday is such a magic day let's do it a couple saturdays from now so we all have time to hammer out all of these details the nfl said no essentially gave them a two-hour window not a three-day window a two a two-hour window from one from 11 a.m to 1 p.m to say yes or no and then that's when the scramble began even on that was on last Tuesday, and by Thursday, it wasn't even clear who was exactly going to be running the workout. That's when they got Hugh Jackson, the former Raiders and former Browns coach. And so the four days leading up to the workout had been this rolling negotiation that never quite got settled. And when you talk about these various negotiations, people out there are saying, other sports commentators and journalists are saying,

Kaepernick, he should have actually just done it. He should just sign the waiver. Now, as we understand, Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk, as well as yourself, y'all been breaking this down. The waiver the NFL wanted him to sign is not the traditional injury waiver. No, it's not the traditional injury waiver. And the Kaepernick team says that they offered a standard waiver in place of this draconian waiver that covered virtually all scenarios that the Kaepernick team, whether it was injury,

whether it was discriminatory questions, whether it was discomfort with any other of the details that were in the agreement, that they had given away all rights, that they had waived all rights to take action against the NFL in order for this workout to take place? For example, one of the key questions is, at the end of the workout, there was supposed to be an interview session with NFL executives or the NFL, whoever was there, the NFL representatives. And suppose, just hypothetically, which really would have happened if an NFL representative had asked Colin, were you going, are you planning to kneel if you are admitted back into the NFL? And if he said yes and no team then chose to sign him, he would be unable, he would have waived his right to take any action against the NFL, even though that's a discriminatory practice. So naturally, they did not sign this. And it ended up being an issue that killed the deal at the last minute. And when I talked to Kaepernick's attorneys, they told me that they were under the

impression that all of these details were resolvable until they weren't up until about an hour before the workout was supposed to take place. The NFL just wasn't going to budge from a couple of those points. Now I was watching watching First Take ESPN earlier, and on that show, Stephen A. Smith said clearly Colin Kaepernick's people had this thing planned out in advance, the second workout. But I talked to Colin Kaepernick's team. I was told point blank that they had 25 minutes on Saturday, that they had their Know Your Rights campaign a few weeks earlier in Atlanta.

They put calls out. The community responded. The community said, we got a location, Charles Drew High School. The people who did security for Colin Kaepernick said, don't worry about it. We're going to call other people. They're going to handle security. They were able to check the media and other people who were coming there. And so Kaep's team said, no, we didn't sit here and have this thing all planned out.

It was not our idea to have a second workout. They said that they sprung to action and it was black people, the community, who stepped up and quickly mobilized to make this thing happen. You were there. What happened? Well, there are two things about this that were absolutely phenomenal. One of them was out at Flowery Branch about an an hour northeast of Atlanta, where the Falcons facility is. There were about two to three white protesters, anti-Kaepernick folks out there from the beginning of the morning at about 10 a.m. For a 3 p.m. workout, they were out there standing. Three American flags, one sign that called Kaepernick an un-American loser, and another sign that just said, stand for the flag. And across, there were two pro-Kaepernick supporters. Within an hour and

a half to two hours, there were nearly 100 Kaepernick supporters out there. And mobilized by the Kappas, by calling Kaepernick's fraternity, they were out there mobilized in full force. When this thing got moved, and by the way, it's incorrect that this had been planned. They had begun, the Kaepernick team had begun by Friday afternoon, Friday night. They started to think that this thing was going sideways. So they did begin to mobilize on the ground somewhere Friday, Friday mid-afternoon, Friday night. By Saturday, it was clear that there may be a need. By about noontime on Saturday, it was clear that the ground forces that Kaepernick had absolutely went into action. But yes, what they did was probably a 12 to 15-hour mobilization

to go find a new location, to go find a school, to get an email blast out. It was essentially, it was almost like a grassroots political campaign, the way they were able to get boots on the ground and find this new location to make sure that at the end of the day, no matter what happened with the NFL and with the Kaepernick team, at the end of the day, there would be a workout, there would be video. And now that video has been sent to all 32 teams. And that is the key right there. The Kaepernick people say we do not trust the NFL. The NFL did not want media there. Also, the NFL said that the Kaepernick team said we do not trust the NFL. The NFL did not want media there. Also, the NFL said that the Kaepernick team wanted Nike to be there to shoot a promo or PSA or commercial. Nike came out with their own statement saying that was absolutely false and want a retraction.

But the shooting of video is critically important because the Kaepernick team said if the NFL is the one who's going to control the video, I don't know what they're going to send out. and the bottom line is they could say he had arm issues they could have only shown the passes that were dropped things along those lines but here's the thing Howard you tweeted this because the media was allowed in because there are media outlets who actually live stream the whole deal now the entire world got to see it. And here's what's hilarious. The NFL network, which the NFL owns, has been using the very videos that we all saw. Had the original rules existed, the only way the NFL network would have been able to show that video is if it was given to them by the NFL. So the very network that the NFL owns is taking advantage of the video that he wanted everybody to see. And then being upset that the workout took place at all.

So on top of that, this was the thing that Kaepernick's legal team had said to me as well, that they did not think. They said, of course, with all of these, with these two entities suing each other back and forth for the last couple of years. Why is this such a big deal? To think that to have an extra video crew there would be a non-starter, would be a deal breaker, was preposterous to them. And that they are very upset that it feels like they are receiving the brunt of the negativity for this not taking place. They didn't think that these issues were unresolvable. They figured, what's the big deal? Having a camera crew there, it's not like it's an entire takeover. It's just an independent crew that you would have thought that with all the bad blood between these two sides, it wouldn't have been a big deal. And it turned out to be a deal breaker.

This is last question for you. I know you have to go. You got lots more reporting you're doing. Here's what jumps out to me, Howard, as the most important thing. It's all about narrative. The cabinet people understood that. The NFL wanted to control the narrative. But by him saying, allow the media in, allow the cameras in, then guess what? It's shared narrative. The NFL has put out all this information. They said, oh, the waiver was not really that big of a deal. Now we're actually seeing pro football talk, as I said, got a copy of the waiver and they said it is totally different than what is normally signed. Also, go ahead. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Go ahead. It's completely different. And the biggest difference in the waiver, the difference between the standard injury waiver and the in the waiver that the that the NFL wanted Kaepernick to

sign was that Kaepernick was signing away all rights. And those rights also include, let's suppose you get an injury settlement later on. Let's suppose that something takes place that is an actionable offense that took place at this workout, that he would have had absolutely no rights whatsoever. He would have had no recourse. And so this really was sort of a kiss the ring situation where it wasn't just enough for him to come back to the NFL. It was certainly to come back on one term and one term only, and that's the NFL's terms. Last question for you, and this is why I think all this is so important. I'm looking at all these people who are offering commentary on television and offering radio. And the reality is this boils down to an issue of trust. The NFL rushed this thing. They wanted to take place in a handful of days. And here are two sides that simply do not trust each other. And when you have

two sides that don't trust each other, transparency and honesty are the two most important things here and the thing that I am most bothered by are the people who all of a sudden the onus is all on Colin Kaepernick saying he shouldn't have worn a Kuta Kinta Kinte shirt that he should have went ahead and signed the waiver that he should have went ahead and done the workout and also saying that and this is where I take exception with one of your colleagues Stephen A Smith good friend of mine fellow journalist saying I don't believe he wants to play football, wants to be a martyr. I've talked to Colin Kaepernick. He wants to play football.

You don't work out for five days a week for three years if you don't want to play football. Well, and there's also something else to that role. And you also don't put yourself through this level of humiliation, because that's also what's happening is that I think that anyone who's been in the public eye, you've been there, I've been there. We've all been in these situations where you have the public attacking you. You wouldn't do this to yourself if you really didn't want to play in the National Football League. Let's also remember, this is a closed business. It's not like, OK, if ESPN doesn't want me to work for them, I can go call The New York Times or The Washington Post or I can call the Boston Globe or somebody else and find some place to work. There's only really one place for him to work at the highest level in the world. And it's and it's right here. He put himself in this situation because he wants to play, but he doesn't want to play on his hands and knees. Folks, I want you to follow Howard Bryant at Howard Bryant Books on Instagram, HBriant47 on, I'm sorry, 42.

My bad, my bad. First of all, I'm giving you a shout out. Calm down. HBriant42 on Twitter. Again, there are a lot of people out there who are pontificating. Howard, folks, was there on Saturday, was the only ESPN reporter on the ground the whole time. And so, Howard, we appreciate you joining us on

Rollerbuck Unfiltered. My pleasure. Thank you. All right. Thank you. All right, folks, I want to go to my panel here, talk more about this and break this whole thing down. Dr. Avis Jones, political analyst, Mustafa Santiago Ali, former senior advisor for the EPA. Also, Dr. Julian Malveaux, economist, President, Emera Bennett College. This is what just jumps out at me. And when I saw my man Stephen A. commentary, Avis on Saturday, I said, I'm going to hold my tongue until Monday.

For me, when I offer my perspective, I am doing so based upon a set of facts. And the reality here is now we see, 48 hours later, what the NFL's real intent was. This is just very basic in terms of how I look at this. So if I settle on, in February, March, I hear nothing. April, I hear nothing. May, June, July, August, September, October, then all of a sudden in November, my phone rings. Mm-hmm. Workout, Atlanta, 3 p.m., Saturday only day my first instinct is what the hell is going on yeah why am i all of a sudden getting a phone call

i've heard nothing from you for nine months about a workout i've played the nfl his agent knows the system they know that workouts normally are held by teams on Tuesday or Wednesday. They know that Saturday is the second busiest day for all teams because it's either a travel day for road teams or you're moving, going into the hotel for a home team because you're getting ready for the Sundayay games then once you say hey is it workout i ask the question okay who's gonna be there nfl says we're not telling you i'm sorry so the kaepernick people put a statement out saying we look forward to the gym managers and the head coaches being there knowing full well that's who determines who gets signed.

And then we know the gym and the head coaches are not going to be there because they're getting ready for the game on Sunday. Right. So now I'm like, okay, I don't understand what's going on. Then it's, well, who am I throwing to? I don't know the receivers. Who's leading the workout? I don't know who that is.

And so once you start going into this and keep asking questions, then it's like, okay, now I'm confused. The Falcons workout. Okay, you want to have the Falcons facility, which is an hour away from the airport. Okay, got it. It's an NFL facility. It's closed.

But then who's going to be there? Then all of a sudden they say, oh, 25 of the 32 teams are going to have representatives there. Well, who the hell is a representative? I mean, if I go to a job interview and you tell me, Roland, we want you to come in for an interview, who am I talking to? Am I talking to the person in HR or am I talking to the president of the network? Right. There you go.

The HR person I know ain't hiring. Right. It's the president of the network. Right. So I want to know those things. So you go through all of that. Then you get to Saturday and they still want you to sign the waiver. And then you don't.

And then the narrative is he walked out. Right. He canceled the workout. That was the plan from the beginning. This whole thing was a setup. There was never any intention to honestly provide him an entree back into the NFL. They already tried the whole Jay-Z thing and saw that that went over like a lead balloon thank you i could that's a very nice way of saying it by the way tmz is tmz as well as xxl they're reporting that sources close to jay-z are blaming kaepernick let me say this to the camera no here's the deal jay-z if you have an opinion on the Colin Kaepernick workout, step up and publicly say it. Because if there are people who are saying things that you don't believe, correct it. Well, let me say this right now.

If that is your point of view and you don't correct it, then what they're reporting happens to be true, which is another issue because that's what this boils down to. That you want that again. Everybody wants to sit here and condemn Colin Kaepernick now and say, well, he should have gone through it, done it anyway. Nope. Lie. and say, well, he should have gone through it, done it anyway. Nope. Lied. Why am I going to go through with something that is a backdoor tip for me to sign away the potential? Because, see, his people don't understand.

He settled the lawsuit. Right. But Colin Kaepernick could file a second lawsuit saying that since the settlement of the lawsuit, there's still collusion going on. And that was probably, I believe, the whole impetus for this whole thing. They wanted to figure out a way in which they could protect themselves from a second lawsuit. Get him to agree to a workout. Get him to agree to the workout.

Sign a waiver. Sign that waiver. Hoping that he was that desperate. And then at the same time, they set this thing up so that they could always pin the blame on him. Because if he didn't come to the workout, they would say,

well, he doesn't really want to come back to the NFL. If he refused to sign the waiver, well, he's not really serious. If he came and even signed the waiver, they could still say, well, you know what? He's not good enough

because they didn't want to have any sort of documentation of how well he did there. I don't think there was ever any honest attempt to bring him back into the NFL. I believe this was an entire charade from the beginning. And I believe that J.C. might have been in collusion to create this whole situation. Julianne.

This is what you call a hot monkey setup. I mean, because if you wouldn't tell him who he's going to be passing to, it could have been somebody, I don't mean to be paranoid, who would have injured him. No, no. Who can't catch the ball. I mean, you want to know I got some quality receivers. So guess what happened? On his own dime, he flew in his own receivers for the workout saying, I don't trust who y'all got. I want to bring in some cats who I know can catch

the ball. The NFL wanted this black man to come to them on his knees. Yes. They wanted him to come humble. They wanted him to come. NASA, I really want a job with the NFL. Colin Kaepernick doesn't have that in his DNA. It's clearly that's not in his DNA or he never would have kneeled. But they set this thing up, as you said, Ava, so everything you did was going to make him wrong. Everything you did was going to make him wrong. But we have seen this treatment of especially black men, black women, but especially black men in public space of the need to humiliate. Yes. The need to put you back in your place.

He had the cajonis to sue them, which a lot of folks wouldn't have done. And he won or he got a settlement. I don't know if he won, but he got a settlement. I got a settlement. So he had the he had the nerve to do that, the temerity to do that. They frankly are still annoyed. And one of the ways to make him go away is to say, oh, we're going to have this opportunity for him to work out. Well, if they really want to see him work out, Brother Man, as our brother from ESPN says, has been working out five days a week. Send a camera to his workout spot. If you really want to see him work out, don't set up some phony thing as they did. Mustafa, it's very interesting to me.

I've heard people, very smart people, say Collins shouldn't have settled. That he should have taken this all the way. He should have exposed all of this. But the people who are saying that are not cutting him a check.

That's right. Hello. For real. So first, we don't know what the settlement was. Right. Okay. And we know it's between one and ten million dollars. All right. Let's say it's five million dollars. Collins has his Know Your Rights campaign. OK. So clearly, if clearly he has lawyers who said, Colin, we could we could pursue this. We can keep this thing going. There are also legal costs. He has to pay attorneys. And so he made a decision to still settle.

And so it's amazing to me how folks who got no skin in the game are very easy to say what he should and should not do. But we know right here, though, because the NFL executive who was there said clearly he has or still has an elite arm. Exactly. Okay. So, and also by showing the workout, showing the 55-yard pass in the air, showing all those different things, we know they could not say he's lost an edge. Now, NFL, you got to deal with the reality. You kept saying, oh, now we know talent has nothing to do with it.

Now the ball is in your court. Yeah. I mean, I just appreciate Colin so much. One, because I'm out there around the country. I see folks who are actually doing stuff in the community, and he has continued to do that year after year after year. I appreciate that he and his team were smart enough to frame the proper narrative and make sure that people can get over that way. But we also need to actually share a little bit something different about what's going on. Colin has now become one of the most famous quarterbacks in the history of the NFL. He left

the game. Well, he didn't leave the game. He was pushed out of the game when he was in the top tier. They've shown that he still has not only the arm strength, but I was watching his feet because that's important also. And he could move well still. So he's still got the skills that are necessary. And when you have become one of the most famous quarterbacks, can they really actually allow him to come back because he's going to stand up and do what's right on social justice issues, on civil rights issues? So they got a problem with that. And as I've heard you and others share with folks, there are 32 billionaires who are actually the drivers of the NFL. So if this one individual black man can garner this much attention, can really frame these disproportionate

impacts that are happening inside of our communities, then this truly is about power. And it's about those 32 other individuals who didn't have enough power to actually completely annihilate this brother. And for me, that's what's really going on. So let me unpack even further, because some of y'all might be saying, I don't understand why so much attention on Colin? Because you're saying Kenny Stills, who still is kneeling, got traded for the Miami Dolphins, to my Houston Texans. He played Sunday. Eric Reid, who was at the workout Saturday,

who flew back in time for his team meetings with the Carolina Panthers. They played the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday. Eric, who also protested, is still in the league. Malcolm Jenkins, Philadelphia Eagles, who protested, is still in the league. Michael Bennett protested. Now with the Dallas Cowboys, was with the Seattle Seahawks, then went to the Patriots, now with the Dallas Cowboys. He was protesting until he went to the Cowboys.

So you might be saying, I don't understand. Let me go back. Kenny Stills is a wide receiver. Eric Reid is a defensive back. Malcolm Jenkins is a defensive back. Michael Bennett is a defensive back. Michael Bennett is a defensive end. The quarterback position is a much different, peculiar position. Why is that?

If you had to establish the hierarchy of an NFL team, it really is owner, management, head coach, quarterback. depending on the quarterback. Quarterback in Green Bay, Aaron Rodgers, put him above the head coach. So the quarterback position is unlike any other position in the NFL. It is the one position closely aligned

to ownership. Why do you think when Cam Newton was being drafted by Carolina, old boy, old school, racist Jerry Richardson called him in and said, I don't want no tattoos for my quarterback.

Not a wide receiver, not a defensive end, not a linebacker, but my quarterback. Because the quarterback is the premier position in the NFL. Many of you may not recall when the strike took place

a couple decades ago. Guess who were the first players to cross the picket line? The quarterbacks. That's what ended the strike. The NFL knows the quarterback is different. I recall Sterling Sharp, when he held out with the Green Bay Packers. Who was the quarterback who said,

it's time for you to come back to camp? Brett Favre, the quarterback. Few years later, another Green Bay Packers wide receiver. It's the exact same thing. Brett Favre said the exact same thing. See, the quarterback position is that unique in the NFL. And so the owner knows full well I can't have a renegade quarterback because that person is aligned with me.

So the reason the NFL is so sensitive to what Colin Kaepernick is doing and why they are making the example out of him is because he plays the quarterback position. Let me also remind all of you, what was the one position that was the last holdout for the black athlete quarterback it was the position that we were told we could not play even though grambling florida a m other hbcus They are the originators of the pro offense. The black quarterback could not play. In fact, Grambling and Florida A&M set up their offenses to specifically create a similar scenario where their quarterbacks could play the next level, but the NFL refused to play black quarterbacks. If you were the black quarterback, it was you had to have the intellect

to read the defenses, to understand what was going on. They said we could play every other position besides that. On defense, what was the quarterback position? Middle linebacker. That was the last position that we could play. We could play the speed positions, wide receiver, defensive back. We could play offensive line, defensive line. We could play running back. But they said on defense, y'all can't play middle linebacker. And on offense, y'all can't play quarterback. You need to understand

the history of the NFL and what is going on here. The reality is what they don't like is that Colin Kaepernick refuses to say Toby. And the reality is there are lots of people who are in media who are black who have say Toby. And the reality is there are lots of people who are in media

who are black who have said Toby. There are individuals who are on social media who have said Toby. Because what they're saying is do whatever you need to do. Bend over. Bow down.

Buckle. Give in. In order to play in the NFL. But why is it that some of us don't have the courage to stand up to these individuals? I recall a certain player called last name McMahon. Remember him? Chicago Bears wore a headband that said Roselle. Thumbed his nose at the NFL, at the commissioner, did whatever he wanted, led the Chicago Bears to a Super Bowl. Do you know what he was called?

Eccentric. He was called? Eccentric. He was called a renegade. Was he ever kicked out of the NFL? No, he wasn't. It's interesting that same team has a trash quarterback from North Carolina who can't play a lick. They have a Super Bowl quality defense. But they literally are going to lose

because they will stick with a loser quarterback than a science somebody like Colin Kaepernick. Folks, we deal with facts and we understand the facts in this case here. And the bottom line is this here.

There is no other reason that Colin Kaepernick is not in the NFL other than the fact that he plays quarterback and he dared to challenge a country when it came to the police brutality and the killing of black men. This has nothing to do with the anthem, has nothing to do with the flag. What it has to do with is institutional racism in this country where people are more concerned with a piece of cloth as well as the hurt feelings of police officers than they are with the First Amendment. You cannot praise the symbols that you say Colin Kaepernick was against, such as the flag and as well as the anthem, if you can't praise the First Amendment that the man used, and that is the right to protest. We'll see what happens next. I doubt very seriously that any team is going to call Colin Kaepernick because the last thing they want is Kunta Kinte playing quarterback.

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