{"id":13406,"date":"2019-11-25T10:51:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T18:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=13406"},"modified":"2019-11-25T10:52:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T18:52:43","slug":"no-teams-have-called-kaepernick-since-workout-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2019\/11\/25\/no-teams-have-called-kaepernick-since-workout-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"No teams have called Kaepernick since workout, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ex-49ers QB Colin Kaepernick impressed at Atlanta workout, but likely angered NFL by changing venues<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Free agent Colin Kaepernick participates in a workout for NFL football scouts and media Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019 in Riverdale, Ga. (AP Photo\/Todd Kirkland)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0MICHAEL NOWELS<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0mnowels@bayareanewsgroup.com<\/a>\u00a0| Bay Area News Group PUBLISHED:\u00a0November 24, 2019 at 10:36 am\u00a0| UPDATED:\u00a0November 25, 2019 at 4:04 am (eastbaytimes.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colin Kaepernick has been waiting by the phone for a week, but it\u2019s all been in vain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter<\/a>, no NFL team has called Kaepernick in the week since he participated in a workout intended to draw interest from teams and end his three-year exile from the league.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, the lack of interest may have little to do with how the former 49ers star looked on the field in Atlanta. Kaepernick and his representatives pulled out of the NFL-organized workout just a few hours before its start, opting to set up their own workout in the Atlanta area<\/a> and invite teams and media to attend. They cited the NFL\u2019s insistence Kaepernick sign an unusual waiver, plus the fact that media weren\u2019t invited to the league-planned workout, as reasons for the switch-up that left teams scrambling to attend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NFL is a league more insistent on dictating terms than any other, and its teams largely take on that same mentality. Kaepernick doesn\u2019t appear to be interested in leaving behind his penchant for challenging authority, making for a difficult marriage between him and any NFL team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been ready for three years. I\u2019ve been denied for three years,\u201d Kaepernick said after his workout last Saturday, imploring the NFL and its teams to \u201cstop running.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Niners attended Kaepernick\u2019s workout along with six other teams, and the 25 teams that didn\u2019t see it in person received video of the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact that no team has reached out showing interest underlines just how bleak the odds are Kaepernick will be signed, Schefter says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ex-49ers QB Colin Kaepernick impressed at Atlanta workout, but likely angered NFL by changing venues By\u00a0MICHAEL NOWELS\u00a0|\u00a0mnowels@bayareanewsgroup.com\u00a0| Bay Area News Group PUBLISHED:\u00a0November 24, 2019 at 10:36 am\u00a0| UPDATED:\u00a0November 25, 2019 at 4:04 am (eastbaytimes.com) Colin Kaepernick has been waiting by the phone for a week, but it\u2019s all been in… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13406"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13406"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13410,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13406\/revisions\/13410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}