Just when the “sign Kaepernick” media cheerleaders appeared to be quieting down, Philadelphia’s star quarterback, Carson Wentz, suffers a serious knee injury Sunday and now objectivity-challenged media cheerleaders have renewed their tiresome call for a Kaepernick signing. Among the media shilling for Kaepernick is Newsweek’s Tim Marcin, who writes, “A number of folks had a suggestion for who could step in (for the Eagles): Colin Kaepernick.”
None of the “Kaepernicksta's” in the media are calling for the Eagles to sign Tony Romo, a retired quarterback without the baggage of Kaepernick. While Kaepernick and his team struggled mightily through a 2-14 season last year, Romo won a division title for Dallas, but he just isn't woke enough socially to command the attention of a social justice rock star.
Marcin writes that “Kaepernick has the experience of guiding a team to the Super Bowl." (That was four years ago -- ancient history by sports standards.) "Sure he hasn't played all season. And his performance had fallen off a bit last year. But he was still, at worst, an above-average quarterback. The Eagles need a big-game QB with the postseason around the corner. And Kaep could be it.”
We’re only three weeks from the end of the season and we thought we were done with the “sign Kaepernick” nonsense. But not yet. Marcin says “a few NFL observers” believe Kaepernick is the best solution for the Eagles. Those include:
Retired Hall of Fame receiver Cris Carter, who posted a photo-shopped Kaepernick in an Eagles uniform along with the comment that “Wentz is done for the year, so bring Kaepernick to Philly.”
Eliot Shorr-Parks, an Eagles beat reporter for NJ.com, wrote if Eagles' backup QB Nick "Foles goes down, the Eagles would be hard pressed to find a better option than having Kaepernick going in for him."
Philly Voice sportswriter Kyle Neubeck wrote that it's not easy to bring in a quarterback late in the season, but it would be a "disservice to their ultimate goal to not at least have a conversation" with Kaepernick. Neubeck called it a "lame excuse" for anyone to suggest Kaepernick would be a distraction for the team. Not really. There would be a huge media frenzy at the team’s practice facility if the team signed the SJW champion of the left-stream media. It would be a crazy scene, but the Eagles would get incredibly positive media coverage for having the courage and the integrity for "doing the right thing."
Marcin concedes that the Eagles are confident in their backup quarterback, so he changes the subject in an attempt to inflate Kaepernick's "legendary" off-the-field legacy:
But as Kaepernick has been kept out of pro football, he has been honored for his work off the field. Amid his pledge to donate $1 million to causes he believed in, Sports Illustrated awarded him with its Muhammad Ali Legacy Award while GQ magazine named him its citizen of the year.
Another common tactic among Kaepernick's media apologists this season has been to list the stats of current NFL quarterbacks whose performance standards are not a good as Kaepernick’s 2016 statistics. It's sort of a consolation prize for these lib media who didn't get their wish to see Kap on the field again. See the charts here and here.
Well here’s one stat Marcin and these media will likely ignore. In place of the injured Aaron Rodgers for less than half a season, Green Bay quarterback Brett Hundley has rallied the Packers to three recent wins – one more than Kaepernick had all of last season. So Kaepernick is not as indispensable as the media think.
It's just three more weeks until the regular season ends, and then we won't have to put up with the media cheerleaders clamoring for the latest team with an injured QB to sign Kaepernick. Hopefully they'll rediscover a strange thing required of journalists called "objectivity."
