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TSRFParticipantSources: Colin Kaepernick’s agents request trade from 49ers
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Adam Schefter explains why Colin Kaepernick’s agents have a requested a trade from the 49ers and how this affects San Francisco’s plans at quarterback. (0:58)
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Paul Gutierrez
ESPN
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — While new San Francisco 49ers coach Chip Kelly gave the impression Thursday that Colin Kaepernick wants to return to the team, sources told ESPN’s Adam Caplan that Kaepernick’s agents have requested permission from the team to seek a trade.NFL Network first reported the trade request.
That would fly in the face of what Kelly, who chose to speak to beat writers in a private setting rather than at the open podium session, said earlier Thursday at the NFL combine.
“He wants to be here,” Kelly told reporters. “He’s never expressed to me that he didn’t want to be here. He expressed to me that he’s excited about getting healthy and getting going. And we’re excited about him getting healthy and getting going.”
Colin Kaepernick was benched last season following the 49ers’ 2-6 start. His $11.9 million base salary for the 2016 season becomes guaranteed on April 1. AP Photo/Ben Margot
Kaepernick’s future with the team appeared to be in limbo anyway. He is recovering from surgeries to his left shoulder, right thumb and left knee, and on April 1 his $11.9 million base salary for 2016 becomes guaranteed. There also is a seemingly growing mistrust between player and organization after he was benched midway through the season and after a 2-6 start.Kaepernick chose to have private doctors perform his procedures, rather than team doctors.
Still, Kelly told a different story earlier Thursday.
“He’s seemed excited every time I’ve talked to him,” Kelly said. “I’ve also learned to not believe everything that’s on the Internet.
“There’s a reason he was on IR. I mean, there was something wrong with him.”
Kelly, like Niners general manager Trent Baalke a day earlier, also gave the impression he expected Kaepernick at the team facility for the beginning of the offseason training program on April 4, three days after Kaepernick’s salary becomes guaranteed in case of injury.
“Kap’s really good,” Kelly said. “I mean, he had the ball on the 5-yard line [about] … to win a Super Bowl. You can just look at the tape to see how talented he is. You know, our job is acquiring talent, not getting rid of talent.”
Kelly drew some criticism during his stint with the Philadelphia Eagles after the manner in which he got rid of such players as DeSean Jackson, LeSean McCoy and Evan Mathis.
His praise of Kaepernick on Thursday contrasted with the lukewarm endorsement he gave at his introductory news conference, when Kelly also praised the job done by Blaine Gabbert.
“You’ve got to see them in general,” Kelly said Thursday. “I think one of the misconceptions is how somebody can evaluate a tape and say, ‘This guy made the wrong decision.’ You don’t know what the play call was.”
And now, Kelly might not know whether Kaepernick wants to play for him or wants to be traded away from the organization that drafted him in 2011.
TSRFParticipantHey SD.
Did you buy a new computer that already had it as the OS, or did you finally relent and let it download onto your existing computer?
Every time I turn the damn thing on, I get a “Do you want to upgrade to Windows 10?” message. I swear, they change tone now and then, depending on my mood: “Do you want to upgrade to 10 NOW??”.
I’m almost tempted, but this is my one remaining XP machine, and I’m kind of afraid what will happen jumping so many generations ahead.
TSRFParticipantHappy Birthday, ZN.
May we all live to see the Rams in the playoffs again (that is, if we all choose to live that long!)…
February 15, 2016 at 3:37 pm in reply to: NFL salary cap expected to be at least $155M…and how the Rams look #39028TSRFParticipantKnowing how Fisher likes to double down on D, do you think they try to keep both CB’s and Barron?
How about, if they let Chris Long go, the get JPP?
No idea how QB plays out here; I’d LOVE a known quantity like Phil Rivers or maybe even Ryan Fitzpatrick but I’m not holding my breath.
TSRFParticipantIf anything, it was self inflicted. Death by twinkees…
Just look at the man! A marvel of evolution his heart was able to soldier on for 79 long years. Plus, the vitriol he spewed had to have a corrosive effect on his system.
OK, I’m being heartless, but fat people usually don’t live to enjoy their golden years, never mind to see 80.
TSRFParticipantO’Rourke has always struck me as a raging alcoholic. Also, a “glass half full” type to be sure; a little prick who is never happy with anyone or anything. I just thought it interesting that he does Op Ed’s on BBC. I think it is important at times to get an outside view of what goes on here, not that he is an outsider, but he didn’t write this for us, he wrote it for the rest of the world.
I used to read “The Economist” whenever I could, and bought an issue before my trip to CA a few weeks ago.
If you think most Americans think the current race is loopy, you can only imagine what the Europeans think…
Zooey is right, this is a train wreck in slow motion…
TSRFParticipantFrom the BBC site… a bit old, but aren’t we all…
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35521558
Viewpoint: Are Donald Trump and his rivals a big joke?
9 February 2016
From the section MagazineWith the US presidential election just nine months away, and would-be candidates battling it out in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary, American political satirist, PJ O’Rourke casts a scathing eye over the candidates hoping to make it to the White House.
There’s an American saying: “Anyone can become president.” And in the 2016 election we’ve been trying to prove it.
The list of people running for president seemed to include everybody except Beyonce. And there actually was a rumour last October that Beyonce’s husband, rapper Jay Z, might run.
The US presidential field has begun to narrow at last. Although, to judge by who’s left, this is not because of quality control.
To the rest of the world Donald Trump seems like a joke. And, please, let’s hope he is. Trump is a prank the American electorate is pulling on the American political establishment.Like many jokes, Trump is a manifestation of discomfort and anxiety.
America is a pretty good place. By world-historical standards it’s an excellent place. And yet, according to opinion polls, almost two-thirds of Americans think the country is “on the wrong track”.
What has got Americans so worried? The technological revolution is unsettling. So are rapid social shifts involving everything from immigrants to gender roles and sexuality. The global economy is shaky. And America’s political establishment is so bitterly divided that we can’t get bipartisan agreement on whether the sun will come up. (Republicans call predictions of dawn “unproven climate change science”.)
So, for a laugh, a lot of Republicans are claiming to support a cartoon character – an over-confident blustery bigot, a self-inflated one-man business boom who claims he can make a deal with the devil that will have the angels of heaven lining up to buy condos in Trump Tower Hell.
Like many jokes, it’s not very funny.
Trump’s Democratic Party opposite number is Bernie Sanders. Bernie repeats the pieties of the 1960s New Left with a straight face, as deadpan as Trump is clownish.Bernie seems a bit foggy on things that have happened since Woodstock, especially in the realm of foreign affairs. Bernie doesn’t know the Berlin Wall fell and doesn’t know he’s still standing on the wrong side of it.
Most of Bernie’s support comes from people who weren’t born when his ideas were in vogue. They’re too young to know that what Bernie says may sound like it makes sense during the dorm room bull session, but sooner or later you have to put the bong down and exhale.
For the rest of America what’s not amusing is Bernie labelling himself a socialist. The word has a particular and peculiar meaning in the US. If you say “I’m a socialist,” what Americans hear is, “I’m going to take your flat-screen TV and give it to a family of pill addicts in the backwoods of Vermont.”
Bernie is not the right man to break America’s political deadlock. It would be worse than electing Angela Merkel prime minister of Greece.
Then there are the serious candidates. Chief among them is Hillary Clinton. She has been seriously trying to become president, one way or another, since 1992.Hillary is a seasoned, pragmatic, centre-left candidate. Her nomination by the Democratic Party was supposed to be inevitable. But it turns out that “evitable” is a real word in the English language. I checked the dictionary. We should start using it.
In a year when Americans have been willing to go in any direction for the sake of change, Hillary is setting her course by the beacon of continuity, the Lighthouse of Sameness. She’s pulling her oar in an opposite direction, the one rower facing the wrong way in the Viking longship.
Now that Ben Carson has faded, the seriously conservative candidate is Republican Ted Cruz.
Dr Carson is a nice man. But he seemed to have no idea why he was running for president. GOP voters wanted him to go back to work as a neurosurgeon, perhaps removing Donald Trump’s ruptured silicone brain implant that is endangering Republicans everywhere.
Ted Cruz wants a 10% flat-rate income tax. The US gross domestic product is $18tn. The US federal budget is $3.8tn. Suppose Cruz somehow lops $1tn off the budget. Suppose the 10% tax is somehow applied to the entire GDP. That still leaves a $1tn-plus hole in the national pants pocket.In American politics, you mustn’t say that hardline conservatives don’t count. But you may say that they can’t count.
Cruz is also a hardline cultural conservative, vehemently opposed to gay rights, drug law reform and so forth. He’s still fighting the Culture Wars. He’s up on the front line bravely firing away without noticing that the other side has gone home to celebrate victory with legalised marijuana at same-sex wedding receptions.
The remaining candidates – all Republicans – are “The Muddle in the Middle.”
Marco Rubio, John Kasich, Jeb Bush and Chris Christie are seasoned, pragmatic centre-right candidates. And Carly Fiorina is the same, plus being a woman, minus the seasoning.
They all face the same problem as Hillary Clinton would, if Hillary were competing with five of herself.
Jeb Bush is the “Great American Failure Story”. Here’s Jeb with all the Bush influence, all the Bush political connections, all the Bush campaign funding, and he can’t get out of single-digit polling numbers. This would be almost impossible for the son of an oligarchic family anywhere else in the world. Isn’t America a wonderful country?John Kasich is the very popular conservative governor of Ohio, a not-very-conservative state.
Ohio is a microcosm of American conflicts – labour v management, nativists v immigrants, blacks v whites, Occupy Cincinnati v the 1%. They all hate each other, but they don’t hate John.
Kasich beat an incumbent Democratic governor and was re-elected by a landslide. Before that he served nine terms shovelling important manure in the Augean stables of the House of Representatives – 18 years on the House Armed Services Committee and six years as chairman of the House Budget Committee.
No wonder he’s so far behind. Republicans are in no damn mood for competent, experienced politicians with broad popular appeal.
Chris Christie is a former US district attorney, a prosecutor famously tough on crime. He was elected the Republican governor in Democratic New Jersey because voters hoped he’d clean up corruption. Not for nothing was the TV show The Sopranos set in that state.
Then one of Christie’s top aides ordered lane-closing on the George Washington Bridge to Manhattan, causing huge traffic jams in Ft Lee, New Jersey, in order to punish the mayor of Ft Lee for not supporting Christie’s gubernatorial re-election campaign.
“Bridgegate” was just the kind of thing that the Sopranos would do – if they used highway cones instead of guns.Carly Fiorina was the CEO of Hewlett-Packard, and the company’s stock price fell more than 60% while she was in charge. I may forgive Carly, but my retirement plan never will.
Marco Rubio may emerge as the moderate Republican choice. He has a couple of things going for him.Rubio is a Washington “outsider”. Well, actually, he’s a US senator. But he’s missed a lot of senate votes, and I assume that was because, during the voting, Rubio was outside Washington. This counts.
And Rubio gets the Latino vote. In Cuba. If Cuba had political polls, Marco Rubio would be polling far ahead of Raul Castro in the Cuban presidential election, if Cuba had presidential elections.
What does the 2016 presidential campaign tell us about my country? What I hope is that it tells us America has a great sense of humour.
Of course there’s always the possibility that Americans are serious about who they’re supporting for president. In that case America has no sense at all.TSRFParticipantWhy no love for Mannion? I think Rivers / Keenum / Mannion would be just fine.
Of course, we’re going to need WR’s and a TE or two who can catch the ball…
TSRFParticipantAs I thought, Monterey is squarely in 9er’s territory. Most everyone I talked to couldn’t care less if the Rams played in LA, St Louis or Hell. Just didn’t like them. “Bitter Rivals” is how the bartender at the airport called them. Wasn’t much love for the Chip Kelly signing either; I think the general mood was the 9er’s are stuck in a rut.
TSRFParticipantVery cool.
Thanks for posting this.
January 24, 2016 at 7:09 am in reply to: Donald Named 2016 Pro Bowl Captain & yet MORE Donald recognition #37958TSRFParticipant…and keep Long. I think his leadership will help make this a top 10 D next year. We REALLY need a QB.
TSRFParticipantIf you haven’t yet, check out DB’s last two vids, especially “Blackstar”
Amazing, given the fact he knew he was dying.
From all indications, he was a very down to earth, kind person in his private life.
Sorry to say “Blackstar” is getting a lot of hate from the “Christians” on the web. Saw a post where somebody said, “I prayed for him, but I’m sure he is suffering in Hell.” Like they know… To me, it would be Hell to be surrounded by people like the one who wrote that in the afterlife. Their Heaven, my Hell.
I wish Bowie had given in and done a role on the Dr Who reboot; they tried to get him very hard, but he declined. Would have been awesome as The Master.
TSRFParticipantCan Hekker run the Wishbone? If the answer is, “Yes”, we’re all set.
TSRFParticipantListened to the 1995 “Outside” CD on my way to MA yesterday. One line in particularfrom “Heart’s Filthy Lesson” gave me chills:
“I’m already five years older I’m already in my grave”
Actually, the whole damn CD gave me chills…
I think our artists are under-appreciated and our athletes over-appreciated here in the US of A.
TSRFParticipantFacts shmacts…
I’ve got them:
Chiefs 23, Houston 16
Steelers 31, Bengals 20
Vikings 21, Seattle 18
Warshington 24, Pack 23Hey, my wife had the Power Ball plus 3 numbers today: Good for $107.00. If she had the Power Ball plus 4 numbers, would have been good for $50k…
Go Purple!
January 4, 2016 at 4:17 pm in reply to: Podcast 1/4 – Thomas and Balzer Those are like David Lynch Zombie audios. #36622TSRFParticipantI thought that as part of the relocation to ST L, the Rams were at the bottom of the totem pole regarding realignment (i.e. if the NFL wanted to realign, the Rams say “where”).
If only the Rams go to LA, they would (and should) stay in the NFC West.
If the Raiders and Chargers go to LA, they both can’t stay in the AFC West. One would have to go to the NFC West and the Rams would have to move to the AFC West.
If this all goes down, I don’t see why they just couldn’t do a simple schedule swap; Raiders or Chargers for Rams, and verse visa…
January 4, 2016 at 4:04 pm in reply to: Podcast 1/4 – Thomas and Balzer Those are like David Lynch Zombie audios. #36619TSRFParticipantDavid Lynch!
But only if he can bring Frank Booth as his QB or OC.
Log Lady as Equipment Manager.
If not, maybe David Byrne. Or David Bowie. Or David Crosby.
Definitely not David Copperfield; too much “magic” is already swirling around this team.
January 4, 2016 at 3:15 pm in reply to: Podcast 1/4 – Thomas and Balzer Those are like David Lynch Zombie audios. #36607TSRFParticipantWhat’s with all this David Lynch stuff all the sudden?
Bad director filled with bad ideas. Not suave at all. Trying my best to forget everything he ever did.
Before I can even start to plot / plan travel next year, what are the odds we’re still in the NFC West next year?
Thanks a bunch.
TSRFParticipantI’m tired of:
Antichrists
Bar Bitches
Christs
Dog Walkers
Elves
Fear Mongers
Giants
Hay Balers
Indians (the ones from India)
Jews (the ones from Long Island)
Kazakhstanis (the ones from Kazakhstan)
Lawyers (guns and money)
Monsters
Nuns
Owls
Pedestrians
Queen Bitches
Russians
Swedes
Twits
Unjust Ruling Judges
Victims
Watch Men
Xenophobes
Yak Fuckers
Zero Insertion Force Fixture ManTo name a few.
TSRFParticipant4 in a row really means nothing when it doesn’t get you to the playoffs.
We are also in the middle of the Twin Peaks series; I thought I had everything, including the movie, but no. Just ordered the movie and hope it gets here before we are done with the series.
They like Twin Peaks. Even though they saw the parallels in Blue Velvet, didn’t like that one at all. It is one of my go to movies for quotes:
“Fuck you fucker fucker!”
“Heinekin?? Fuck that shit! Papst Blue Ribbon!!”
“Why are there people like Frank in the world?”
“I’m Paul.”TSRFParticipantI expect the Rams to win, meaning they most likely won’t.
If they do win, what does it mean? If they do lose, what does it mean?
Why doesn’t my phone tell me where it is when it is lost?
If you’re still reading, Happy New Year!
TSRFParticipantHere’s my humble opinion on what should happen in LA:
The good people of LA don’t want or deserve any of the three teams who want to go there. For prior bad behavior, the Raiders should be excluded right from the get go.
The Chargers and the Rams should be merged with the composite team basically the Chargers O and the Rams D and ST. Ownership of the LA Ramgers would be determined via a PPV cage match between Krankie and Spandex.
The loser would become owner of a St Louis expansion team (the Stallions?) who would have first dibs on the remainder of the old Rams and Chargers teams, and then would get to select players from the other 30 teams via an expansion draft.
The Ramgers would be in the AFC West, the St Louis team would stay in the NFC West.
Problem solved.
December 9, 2015 at 11:30 pm in reply to: reporters (including Detroit writers) set up the LIONS game #35435TSRFParticipantNow I’m scared.
I hope they don’t break Gurley at the end of this lost season. I want to see him lead this team to the playoffs in 4 or 5 years…
TSRFParticipantIf the Cardinals lose this one, shame on them.
They may be looking past the Rams because they have to play the Vikings on Thursday.
I don’t know…
Looking at the Rams last four games: close game, blowout loss, close game, blowout loss you’d think we were due for a close game. Only way they do that is if they knock Palmer out of the game (again). I don’t want that to happen, just saying it is the only way I see this game being close.TSRFParticipant“he loves the game plan and he is ready to play…”
I’m honestly happy I don’t have Sunday Ticket anymore and won’t be anywhere near a sports bar for this one.
TSRFParticipantHappy Birthday. Many more.
TSRFParticipantand many more.
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TSRFParticipantThank god!
When I read the title, I thought I was going to find out he hurt his back in practice.
Now, if he can play some OT or Guard…
TSRFParticipantOK, here’s my play.
I stick with the Angel of Death kill the first born male, but make it retroactive through time.
That means Cain dies before he can kill Abel. That also stops this whole mess:
Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch. 18 To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.
19 Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah. 20 Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and raise livestock. 21 His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play stringed instruments and pipes. 22 Zillah also had a son, Tubal-Cain, who forged all kinds of tools out of[g] bronze and iron. Tubal-Cain’s sister was Naamah.
Also, Abel was a “keeper of flocks” i.e., a sheep fucker. No children. No human race. No overpopulation. Problem solved.
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