Dude, stop it. Your arguments are implicitly racist as CK’s #'s aren’t out of line with other one-time Super Bowl QB’s, yet he was the only SB caliber QB who couldn’t find a job in a QB-desparate league.
'His starting numbers were bad
‘Yeah? So were Tim Tebow’s, Blake Bortles, etc, but they didn’t get run out of the league.’
I mean… just stop it. Your reasoning is flawed given that plenty of non-protesting QB’s with similar #'s have had 10-year careers in the NFL.
Neither CK nor the 49ers were any good. Obviously.
So? Someone had to play QB. CK only became “not good enough” when he got uppity.
I don’t know about racist, but ignorant, absolutely.
I know that @RitterSport asked not to go down this road, and a back and forth on his qualifications as a QB would be.
On topic, however, would be things like the president of the United States calling for his cancellation. This does serve as an example, as on the left, “cancel culture” comes from a group of individuals speaking out about something that they find to be an issue. On the right, cancel culture comes from positions of authority.
The right fears the left exercising their freedoms and upholding the principles of democracy while the right eagerly embraces authoritarianism.
Tebow didnt get run out of the league? He started all of 16 games in his career the last being in 2012 despite trying to find a job in the NFL for years after.
Bortles was released by Jax even though the team took a 16.5 mil cap hit. His Rams tenure lasted one season in which he threw 2 passes.
The fact that I think most businesses require a deeply cooperative work culture in order to thrive shows that I don’t understand football? I mean, sure, I don’t, but your suggestion that cancelling a football employee over “distracting” speech is somehow more reasonable than cancelling (say) a PR flak for “distracting” speech is mythologizing football.
At any rate, I’m pretty confident that CK’s case is a great example of cancel culture on the right, and the post-hoc attempts to claim he was such a bad player are silly, and the mythologizing of football culture actually support the idea that it’s a case of cancel culture. I’m not seeing much more to say on this.
I didnt say that business doesnt require cooperation. I said that an NFL team requires an exceptional amount of cooperation and its QB especially needs to be a leader and a unifier. Its not so much about PR flak as it is about causing division in the locker room.
Unless you’ve got some cite showing studies about how “locker room divisions” are worse than “factory floor divisions” or “board room divisions” or “kitchen divisions,” I feel comfortable dismissing this as mythologizing. Just because you say it’s so doesn’t make it so.
Let’s compare CK to white QB’s, why don’t we?
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So, what exactly made Brock Osweiler a $72 million QB if he wasn’t even as good as CK? Or, better put, what was it about CK which made NFL owners… all of them… decide not hire him, because it surely isn’t about #'s, metrics, or performance. Not when compared to mediocre white QB’s of his day.
The guy was canceled because he offended the tender sensibilities of white Trumpy billionaires, plain, pure, and simple.
And I, in response, have canceled the NFL from my life. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
The Kaepernick issue has been discussed in a number of other threads. Please either tie it directly to cancel culture or drop the topic.
(“He’s not a good player, despite having been a starting player until he made the news, so it’s not cancel culture” is a pretty weak argument, by the way. If that’s the best you can offer, I suggest you move on to some other topic.)
Ok, done.