The dude just ain’t good enough for the NFL today and that’s exactly why he ain’t playing. He might still can throw the ball but that doesn’t mean he’s good enough for the NFL. When you miss time playing in the most competitive league in professional sports it won’t take long for the game to pass you bye and that’s what’s happened with CK. Mike Vick was 10 times the QB CK was and prison set him back. Speaking of mile Vick I’m so proud of that guy in the man he’s become today he’s still trying to make up for his mistakes. The man made some terrible decisions and he went to prison and paid for it and he’s asked for forgiveness so imo that’s the end of it. He was a punk at one time but man I’m telling ya he’s made up for it.
The dude just ain’t good enough for the NFL today and that’s exactly why he ain’t playing. He might still can throw the ball but that doesn’t mean he’s good enough for the NFL. When you miss time playing in the most competitive league in professional sports it won’t take long for the game to pass you bye and that’s what’s happened with CK. Mike Vick was 10 times the QB CK was and prison set him back. Speaking of mile Vick I’m so proud of that guy in the man he’s become today he’s still trying to make up for his mistakes. The man made some terrible decisions and he went to prison and paid for it and he’s asked for forgiveness so imo that’s the end of it. He was a punk at one time but man I’m telling ya he’s made up for it.
CK is absolutely good enough for the NFL, but his off the field stuff and repeated BS manufactured nonsense with teams is why he's out of the NFL. Owners have 100% the right to not want this guy on their team, with all the distractions and consistent middle finger to any league team that had an interest. Broncos wanted him, but he wouldn't take a paycut. Ravens offered him a workout, then his girlfriend called their owner a plantation owner. NFL said they would hold a workout for him, then he pulled some last minute switch and held it at a high school rather than the agreed to NFL site.
He's the reason no one wants him, not his talent.
@roaminglion I just don’t think he’s good enough today he’s been out of the league to long. He’s never been as good as Mike Vick and when Vick went to prison it hurt his NFL career. I don’t see anybody staying out this long and rebounding. I believe he acts like a punk because he knows his days are over and he’s acting out. Just my opinion though. He’s definitely the reason his NFL days were cut short you are spot on. Dude is 34
Politically incorrect opening sentence. Multimillionaire whiner, follow by more non-PC stuff, is how I feel about CK
Politically incorrect opening sentence. Multimillionaire whiner, follow by more non-PC stuff, is how I feel about CK
That's a good sum up
The way I see it he was to be a leader for his football team but he decided to branch out. Was he an above average starting QB, maybe. But he either decided to be all about CK or all about his issues not the team. It is a team sport and on any sucessful play over half the 11 have to perform. He did not promote team performance...again my uneducated opinion. Maybe he thought he was 'untouchable' because of his 'issue'. Seems he has found out he is untouchable? I wouldn't want to go to war with him.
I know it is not PC but when I put on the company uniform I lose some of my first amendment rights. Now I can still stand on the street corner in my jeans and t-shirt and say what I want but he and IMO the NFL got a little disoriented.
'And thats all I got to say about that' FG.
I don't care a bit for the lad. I cling to my old fashioned values. I'm proud to stand for the Flag and I only kneel for God.
Once more, kneeling had NOTHING to do with the flag or soldiers or anything else "patriotic". It had to do with young men with darker skin getting shot and killed by police at a much higher rate then those with lighter skin. If you notice, I did not use the term race since there is only one race, the human race.
If that's how he feels, he can go down to the street corner in his jeans and t=shirt and kneel all he wants!
@rip He used the opportunity he had. I personally would not have done that but that is kind of what freedom means. I wouldn't burn an American flag but I would fight for the right of anyone that wants to do it. You want freedom, you have to allow others to have it as well. If you can tell me one person hurt by the whole kneeling thing , I would like to hear that. Now I don't count the people with arthritic knees, because that is self inflicted.
@psugrad81 You're right 81, he has the right to kneel in protest. Likewise, we have the right to think he's a POS. If he really wanted to make a statement, refuse to play! Oh, wait, then he would have forfeited his paycheck. Which feeds right back to, if you're on company time, you play by company rules. Since the NFL didn't have the balls to say, "Knock it off", quite a few of us stopped watching.
@rip He used the opportunity he had. I personally would not have done that but that is kind of what freedom means. I wouldn't burn an American flag but I would fight for the right of anyone that wants to do it. You want freedom, you have to allow others to have it as well. If you can tell me one person hurt by the whole kneeling thing , I would like to hear that. Now I don't count the people with arthritic knees, because that is self inflicted.
I would say you're right... however, he was an employee of the NFL and it's actually the NFL that had every right to tell him not to do it.
Yes, you have the right to say what you want... but not the right to demand the your employer give you a pulpit or megaphone to say it. When you are on company time, they actually have the right to tell you how they would like you to behave (within reason of course). The NFL GRANTED players the ability to kneel, but they'd be well within their rights to fire them if they said no and they players knelt anyway. Again, their dime is their time.
All that said, I think what the NFL did was the right decision... let them kneel. I also think the players were wrong for kneeling, because the flag symbolizes so much more than CK's narrow view of it.
@psugrad81 You're right 81, he has the right to kneel in protest. Likewise, we have the right to think he's a POS. If he really wanted to make a statement, refuse to play! Oh, wait, then he would have forfeited his paycheck. Which feeds right back to, if you're on company time, you play by company rules. Since the NFL didn't have the balls to say, "Knock it off", quite a few of us stopped watching.
AMEN !! It should all be irrelevant anyway because CK was benched due to poor performance.
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At best he is average but the distractions he would bring to training camp would be a big problem for any team. If he was a good as Tom Brady, the team would put up with the distractions.
CK isn't playing b/c he took a knee and opted out and wasn't picked up afterwards. The argument of whether he was good enough to play or not is irrelevant, IMO; they're a lot of players who make it or don't for various reasons; next man up just like any other job. And like any other job, some things are acceptable and some are not, rightfully or wrongfully; bottom line is there is a space between what is legal, moral and/or ethical that a person has to move about and sometimes those three paradigms don't align simultaneously.
He was a dang good QB when he was playing I’m just saying he’s not good enough today because he’s been out of the league to long. He was being a punk ass punk when he took a knee and the proof was the socks with pigs on ‘em. He’s just a racist punk and he is what he hates. He’s a hypocrite!
My opinion on CK was right message (racial justice) but wrong messenger. He came across as an entitled douche who grew up raised by a white couple, posted about the 500 shoes he owned on Instagram, wore "cops are pigs" socks, and put on a Castro T-Shirt when down in Miami.
He was right to talk about social injustice, but went about it in a horribly wrong way that did nothing but polarize the debate. Whatever side of the fence you were on at the beginning, CK did nothing to influence you one way or another. The people on his side elevated him in the sphere, while everyone else wanted him to go away.
Good leaders inspire change in people's beliefs, like MLK did... CK just fanned flames.
