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NFL 2017 Training Camp/Preseason |OT| - If you don't like it, you should have made it

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Bronx-Man

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There will be a game this season where the Chargers won't be able to sell out the StubHub Center and it will be the funniest thing to happen in the NFL since butt-fumble.
 

chuckddd

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Brenda Warner gonna be in Mad Max 2.
 

Sanjuro

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So, today I was threatened to be shot in the head by some guy today. I apparently took his spot on a ocean boat ramp.

Thank God for Thursday!
 

MechDX

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http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...-the-heart-of-the-colin-kaepernick-situation/

While fans may hate Colin Kaepernick because he didn't stand for the national anthem in 2016, the NFL has shunned him for a fundamentally different reason. Indeed, plenty of other players didn't stand for the anthem during the 2016 season, and most of them remain gainfully employed.

They remain gainfully employed because none of them became the name and face of the movement. Kaepernick did, and he's the one paying for it with his career.

Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman has become the highest-profile player to recognize this hiding-in-plain-sight reality, in comments to Jarrett Bell of USA Today.

”What is it about?" Sherman said. ”It's not about football or color. It's about, ‘Boy, stay in your place.'"


Bingo.

”Not a lot of guys are willing to step out there," Sherman added. ”So the guys not speaking up for him are doing him a disservice. There should be a lot more guys saying something. Most guys are like, ‘I don't want my job to end up the same way.'"

Sherman told Bell that Kaepernick would have been a great fit in Seattle, but the Seahawks decided not to sign him. At least the Seahawks didn't engage in an awkward, clumsy, slow-motion crowdsourcing exercise aimed at determining whether fans and sponsors would revolt before deciding whether to offer him a job.

”For you to say you have to check with sponsors and fans because this guy took a knee and made a statement?" Sherman said regarding the Ravens' apparently ongoing deliberations. ”Now if you told me this guy threw eight pick-sixes last year and played like a bum, had no talent, that's one thing. But Ryan Fitzpatrick, Ryan Mallett or whoever is playing for the Jets right now — whoever is starting for the Jets is terrible — have jobs. You're telling me fans would rather you lose and put a worse player out there because a guy took a stand? That's where it's so troublesome to me. . . .

”Blake Bortles has shown you enough to where you don't think Kaep would be a solid fit? Kaep has won games."

Sherman dropping truth bombs.

But leave Bort alone dammit! Hes already dead
 
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