bleedspeed177 wrote:Saw this. I am not sure he got more money last year or just wanted more money last year.
As part of the deal's reconfiguration, Kaepernick traded $14.5 million in injury guarantees during the 2017 season for the opportunity to opt out of the deal early. His decision saves the Niners his $14.5 million base salary in 2017 though he will still count nearly $2.5 million in dead money for the remainder of his signing bonus proration.
What Kap got from doing that negotiation was basically a chance to play last season. The 49ers likely had zero desire to pay him that money if he was injured (that was the only way he was going to get that much money) so there was basically no way they were going to let him play. They would have sat him on the bench wrapped in bubble wrap with some paid guys to keep anyone from accidentally running into him. Lol The renogotiation was good for both parties and it's possible Kap ended up making some more money last year than he would have otherwise. His contract was pretty interesting from the start.
The kinda funny thing is the longer Kap is out of the NFL the more he is in the spotlight and his cause seems grow. His legend as a football player seems to grow as well. :) The Athletic had an article I found pretty interesting. I'll put the link here I am not sure if you have to be a subscriber to read this one or not. I may have actually subscribed after reading this I am not sure.
The bits of video of Bradford today were much more encouraging than what I saw yesterday. His drops looked full go and aggressive compared to yesterday he looked more like a guy going half speed or something like that.
2 words. Josh Freeman. This is the NFL. You can't just bring in guys, have them learn the offense in a week (or 2 if during the bye week) and then they go out there and play well. If the guy isn't in training camp he's not gonna be a good QB for your team for several weeks and most likely wouldn't be good until the following year.
khans2k5 wrote:2 words. Josh Freeman. This is the NFL. You can't just bring in guys, have them learn the offense in a week (or 2 if during the bye week) and then they go out there and play well. If the guy isn't in training camp he's not gonna be a good QB for your team for several weeks and most likely wouldn't be good until the following year.
Agreed. I still am itching to see Sloter in mop-up duty.
khans2k5 wrote:2 words. Josh Freeman. This is the NFL. You can't just bring in guys, have them learn the offense in a week (or 2 if during the bye week) and then they go out there and play well. If the guy isn't in training camp he's not gonna be a good QB for your team for several weeks and most likely wouldn't be good until the following year.
Agreed. I still am itching to see Sloter in mop-up duty.
That's a good point Kahns. Speaking of Freeman did you you see the Tweet that Quigley had a higher QB ranking last week than Freeman did in that one game? Taking that into consideration makes what Bradford was able to do last year a little more impressive right? Of course I think we can also say at this point Freeman was just bad. I'm still baffled how he just fell off so rapidly.
Well that optimism about Bradford I had yesterday seems to have been nice for a few hours. He is off to get a 2nd opinion from the last guy that did his knee surgery. Man the Vikings can't seem to catch a break.
monsterpile wrote:Man the Vikings can't seem to catch a break.
I think I'm to the point that I can no longer justify the emotional investment in this team. Their luck is just horrendous, it's one thing to lose a contested game, another to have key players constantly injured and all hope destroyed. At least Sam could have had a terrible no good lousy game week one, then we could comfort ourselves with the idea he just doesn't have it. But nooooo, he has to have a career game, jack up our excitement... then body slam us.
**** it, there has to be better ways to spend my Sunday afternoons than wondering what could have been.
monsterpile wrote:Man the Vikings can't seem to catch a break.
I think I'm to the point that I can no longer justify the emotional investment in this team. Their luck is just horrendous, it's one thing to lose a contested game, another to have key players constantly injured and all hope destroyed. At least Sam could have had a terrible no good lousy game week one, then we could comfort ourselves with the idea he just doesn't have it. But nooooo, he has to have a career game, jack up our excitement... then body slam us.
**** it, there has to be better ways to spend my Sunday afternoons than wondering what could have been.
I'm glad I spent that $100 on the game pass thing so i can spend like 40 mins in pain watching the condensed game instead of slogging through 3 hours. It's kinda fun to be able to watch other games to. I watched last night's offensive explosion because I thought it would be fun and it was.
The good news for this team is Dalvin cook looks like the real deal but I suppose something will happen to him or we just won't have a QB to pair with him for a bunch of his career like we did with Peterson. What makes it worse is aside from health we have 2 possible options at QB that could give chance gore hope in Teddy and Bradford but who knows if either guy can play. No wonder this team spent the money to get Sloter. They need another developmental QB and Heinicke didn't look like the answer although he just signed on the Pats PS. At least we seemed to finally find some good receivers but the oline being average would be a success going forward. It's not easy building a team.
If Keenum could go 4-5 last year with the Rams I think he can play well enough to win some games to keep us in it till someone better gets healthy.
