Warren Sapp made major headlines last week when he stated during an interview with Vlad TV that he heard Colin Kaepernick’s workout with the Las Vegas Raiders was a “disaster.”
The hall of fame player also suggested there was no tape of the session because the free-agent quarterback’s poor performance was being covered up.
Sapp was called out for making up lies, but now he is getting some backup in the form of another former player.
Former NFL linebacker LaVar Arrington said on his FOX Sports Radio show that he knows Sapp well and that the former defensive tackle has strong connections with the Raiders.
Jonas Knox: “Mike Florio was offended by Warren Sapp’s criticism, it’s hilarious. He’s been one of the biggest Colin Kaepernick ball washers over the past couple of years in all of sports media. Apparently, Kaepernick is above criticism. If his workout was so great – to Warren Sapp’s point – no footage?”
LaVar Arrington: “I know Sapp pretty well… He ain’t lying. One thing Sapp is not is a ‘liar.’ If you’ve played for an organization you know people in the organization. There’s certain places that you can get information that in other cases you wouldn’t get that information. Sapp played for the Raiders, and Sapp probably has a relationship with a couple people that are in the organization. If Sapp didn’t know, hear, or have a discussion with someone who was in the organization he wouldn’t have even talked about it.
Knowing how Sapp is, the reason why Vlad [the interviewer] even asked it was because he was setting up Sapp to be able to talk about something he already had information on, so let’s just be clear on that. The agent [Kaepernick’s agent] can say ‘well, we talked to the Raiders organization and Sapp didn’t’… well, Sapp might not have talked to the people that YOU spoke to but that doesn’t mean he didn’t speak to people in the organization who A) either knew from other evaluators what the evaluation was, or B) directly to the people who were doing the work out and got that information first hand. He’s not making that up.”
Jonas: “The idea that he’s just going to waltz back in after all this time, and if anybody dares say the workout is bad then they immediately get attacked for it… maybe it WAS [bad].”
LaVar: “Listen, it was. I have no knowledge of it, I just know that Sapp wouldn’t have said it if that’s not the report that he got from somebody that was close to it. It’s safe to say that the workout was terrible.”
Colin Kaepernick’s agent, Jeff Nalley, had to go into damage control mode in response to Sapp. According to Nalley, Kaepernick was so good during the workout that he impressed both Raiders head coach Josh McDaniel and general manager Dave Ziegler.
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“I guess Warren didn’t talk to the general manager or the head coach,” Nalley said in a text to Pro Football Talk. “I spoke to the GM several times and he said they all thought Kap was in great shape and threw the ball really well and encouraged any team to call him about the workout and he would tell them the same. I’m surprised Warren would say that, because it’s not true and you would think he would want Kap on a team.”
Kaepernick has not played in the NFL since 2016. During his last season with the San Fransisco 49ers in 2016, he went 1-10 as a starter while throwing for 2,241 passing yards, 16 touchdowns and four interceptions.
The workout with the Raiders marked the first time in five years that Kaepernick had been invited to work out for an NFL team.
