Paxton Lynch isn't the guy you want for a quarterback.
This is well known by everyone who doesn't frequently huff spray paint out of a sock. Just in case there are any doubters out there, his performance last game confirmed that he's abysmal and earned him a demotion on the depth chart to 3rd string behind Chad Kelly (whoever the fuck that is amirite?) He was 6 of 11 for 24 yards, with 1 INT against the Viking's junior varsity squad.
Think that I'm too harsh on the guy? No. I'm just a realist, and I'm not alone.
Broncos fans started a crowdfunding event after this game to try to raise 600k to pay for a replacement. His coaches knew he had no business playing months ago when they gave Case "pea-shooter" Keenum a two year 36 million dollar deal as their starter.
What in the literal fuck are you thinking Elway? It's like you want to lose.
In his defense, I guess he's consistent. You would think that a quarterback of Elway's caliber would be able to, I don't know, pick a quarterback that's at least mediocre, but he's failed time and time again.
In case you've forgotten about John Elway's General Manager genius let's go over a few of the QBs he's picked:
1.) Tim Tebow
2.) Peyton Manning
3.) Brock Osweiler
4.) Trevor Siemian
Peyton Manning may be one of the best on the list, but he was well washed up by the time he landed in Denver. Hell, I'd argue that Tebow (who wasn't worthy enough to take a snap for any team post-Denver) was the best QB choice Elway ever made.
Know who is not on the list? Colin Kaepernick. We all know why though even if we don't want to admit it.
First off let's kill the, "it's because he's not that talented," argument.
Colin's career was red hot in 2012 when finally got the start over Alex Smith who had the best completion percentage in the league. It's no argument that he had a great team that year, but I would like to assume that he had something to do with them being competitive in the SuperBowl. Maybe just a little.
"But what about the last year he played? He was horrible," you say.
The Dan Patrick Show recently brought up the point that Kaepernick's last full five games of 2016 are very comparable to the last five games of the exalted Jimmy Garoppolo, and Dan Patrick is right.
Kaepernick's Last Five Full Games:
Completions: 64%
Passing Yards: Approx. 1100 yards
9 TDs - 2 INTs
Passer Rating: Approx. 97
Rushing Yards: 188
Jimmy Garoppolo's Last Five Games:
Completions: 67%
Passing Yards: Approx. 1500 yards
6 TDs - 5 INTs
Passer Rating: Approx 94
Rushing Yards: 11
So if you're going to say Kaepernick is bad, then we need to say the same about Golden Boy Garoppolo. Except I would argue that Colin's numbers look better with a much worse team in 2016.
You aren't going to hear that from the public though. A lot of sports writers and analysts are putting Jimmy G in the top ten of all quarterbacks in the league this year. All of this, while casting shade upon Kap. Even Michael Vick came out to say that Colin wasn't good enough to play. Throwing in cheap jabs like, "First thing we've got to get Colin to do is cut his hair."
Since we're already talking about the dog murderer that is Michael Vick, I mean patron saint and role model for moral behavior, let's talk about the more significant argument; Teams don't want the negative attention.
With storylines that are more dramatic and complicated than a Days of Our Lives episode with twin surgeon amnesiac brothers, I seriously find this argument unbelievable these days. Michael Vick killed dogs. Pacman Jones, allegedly, punched a stripper in the face a few times. Donte Stallworth killed a pedestrian with his car while driving under the influence. Know what these players had in common? They all came back to the league and played after these incidents.
Colin Kaepernick knelt during the National Anthem and exercised his right as an American to peacefully protest. Let's burn that witch.
And even after saying all of this I was semi complacent with all of the "they just don't want the negative attention," type excuses. It was the only thing that kind of made sense to me. Maybe Kaepernick is just that distracting. If you've played sports, you've met that guy in the locker room. There's no other reason there wouldn't be at least one team willing to take a chance on him as they have many others in the past. They wouldn't go as far as sending an order from the top to deny him a chance to play right? That's pretty much what Colin is saying in his lawsuit against the NFL. I wanted to believe that the NFL had more integrity than that.
Then that all changed because of Paxton Lynch's horrible, horrible play.
After the game, John Elway was forced into talking about his miserable quarterback situation. He gave the standard wishy-washy answer of quarterbacks need to compete blah blah blah. Then it was like the radio personality read my mind because they asked what I was thinking, "what about Kap?"
John Elway stated that Kaepernick had his chance already and that permanently his ship had already sailed. The astonishing part of this is "his chance" was prior to his protest. He's saying I was willing to give Colin a chance, but now after two more years of sub-par quarterbacking in Denver, I think I'll pass.
John Elway, who is such a shit bag general manager in respect to picking quarterbacks is more willing to give Paxton Lynch a backup spot than Colin Kaepernick?
Elway's comments have me convinced of three things:
1.) Kaepernick will likely win a case against the NFL.
2.) Kaepernick will even more likely never play again.
3.)The NFL in my mind undoubtedly has a shadow ban on Kaepernick.
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