Los Angeles Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh let it slip this week that he offered former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick a coaching job this offseason. Per Harbaugh, Kaepernick thought about the opportunity but ultimately chose not to join the NFL as a coach this season.
Colin Kaepernick says he wants to play QB
Kaepernick would rather pursue his dream of being an NFL quarterback—or at least that’s what he’s saying to the press and posting on social media. Nike celebrates Kaepernick’s political activism, and one has to wonder if there is an ulterior motive in his choices for employment this year.
Kaepernick doesn’t have a chance to make an NFL roster as a quarterback, even on the practice squad. At 36, he’s a liability in a league that favors youth. Kaepernick can’t boast about the experience after being out of the league for seven seasons.
Is Kaepernick delusional?
Even so, Kaepernick told Sky Sports that he’s training this summer to be ready if an NFL team calls him. His best chance to make a roster as a quarterback would have been with the Chargers after Justin Herbert suffered a preseason injury. Harbaugh confirmed on Saturday that Kaepernick would not join the Chargers as a quarterback this season.
Mike Florio with NBC Sports said Kaepernick’s insistence that he can play in the league comes off as delusional.
Or maybe Kaepernick is just business savvy.
The league royally screwed over Kaepernick. As Dan Le Batard pointed out this week, Kaepernick was wronged in the prime of his career. The NFL can do nothing to make things right with Kaepernick for taking away his ability to play at the most important position in the prime of his career.
Kaepernick has built a platform on being kicked out of the NFL
Kaepernick has used the league’s blackballing to build an activist brand. He founded Know Your Rights Camp, a publishing company, and is starting an AI business to help marginalized communities. Nike has commoditized Kaepernick’s activism.
It’s good business for Kaepernick to continue to push the narrative that the NFL kicked him out and doesn’t want him back. The way Harbaugh told it, that’s not true anymore.
Harbaugh told the NFL world that Kaepernick had and has a path back to the league as a coach. Kaepernick can’t perpetuate the myth that the league won’t let him back in. Maybe not as a quarterback as it should have been earlier in his career, but coaching is on the table.
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He’s wise to steer clear of the Harbaugh taint.
This man needs to move the hell on and let it go 7 yrs. the writing is on the wall he is delusional and if anybody thinks he’s not are d—— idiots, again idiots, the man needs to go somewhere and stop acting like a fool and the league owes him they don’t owe him s——… He chose to be an a——-$ kneel during the star spangled banner and in doing it he said it was for bull—— reasons he should never ever be allowed to play not even coach in the NFL or NCAA Football too, so in closing what do alot of people say take your ball and go the f—— home a————