this one again…
Googling about on the coming matchup between the Seattle Seahawks and the Green Bay Packers, I run into a couple of Twitter feeds full of utmost certainty and cutting off of any disagreement to the line of “racist”…
… I assume there are noxious responses in the feed that count, but I saw the hard response to some sensible enough comments before I ran into them…
The racial disparity between the treatment on Aaron Rodgers and Colin Kaeperneck. Need you say more?
Nay. Actually it is simply Superstar treatment for Aaron Rodgers, that which did not exist for the benched at the time he started protesting Colin Kaeperneck. The immediate comparison for Rodgers is the situation with the Denver Broncos last year — against that for — I think it was the Ravens. The league dumped on the not account rebuilding Broncos, forcing them to play without a quarterback, where they made all accommodations for the Ravens and Steelers– shuffling a game to Wednesday and others to Tuesday for the right now marquee teams and players.
I was thinking — as I looked at these tweets and the short circuited responses to responsrs — and perhaps shuffling my assumption that “he would have been in the league somewhere if not for his protests, just… Not anywhere he would prefer” to a “then again, maybe not”…
that the proper comparison on Kaeperneck, was Cam Newton, who burned brightly and then burned not so brightly, and is probably better than a number of starters in the league but in the quest to win Big-ly they are locked on his down-side against someone else’s upside. So he is out of the league. Unless he wants to be a back-up.
But Cam Newton was just signed again — back again with the Carolina Panthers franchise. As things go, though, he was bounced from a Patriots team wanting to go with their new guy, and did indeed fall into covid politics with his positive reading and covid hesitancy probably playing a role in no one signing him. But then again, anytime a team expressed some interest in Kaeperneck, Kaeperneck made it hard for them where clearly Newton never burned his bridges.
Checking back in on the public shout out from Richard Sherman on the matter, that “Why is Colin Kaeperneck not in the league?” call — which daw him mentioning two quarterbacks who are — Blake Bortles and Jared Goff. Sherman essentially accidentally making the point against himself — yes, you would rather play at that time (contractually, perhaps, in the first case — but they hadn’t quite given up on him) Bortles and (damned if we weren’t just entering the second year with him) Goff. Both went on to have — probably — their career years. Looking up on where are they now — Bortles is apparently the third stringer for the Packers — ( pretty bad considering their back-up was less than stellar and well reigned in, little confidence given as he chunked and dunked the whole game in) — and Goff is now suffering with the Lions. I do not know what it means for Sherman’s argument, but there one goes.
Seahawks — Packers. Hey! All right thinking people are cheering on the Seahawks, for political reasons. Howard Stern leading the charge. For whatever that represents. And I guess the former Jeopardy host tryout Aaron Rodgers is your representative for that “lower educated and higher educated, dumb and smart” polling data on who is anti-covid vaxx.