Colin Kaepernick is currently not in the NFL and one marketing expert believes he knows the true reason why that is.
“He’s not a starting quarterback talent,” Dave Meltzer tells the Chicago-based Domenick Nati show.
Meltzer is currently the CEO of Sports 1 Marketing, one of the world’s leading sports & entertainment marketing agencies, which he co-founded with Hall of Fame Quarterback Warren Moon.
“But I will tell you this – here’s the problem with Kaepernick: Instead of taking a positive route, right, instead of saying: ‘Hey black lives matters, [he should have said] I want to make a statement with my platform that I’ve been given as the quarterback of the team and going to his agent, going to the owner, going to the commissioner and saying what can we work out here. That would be positive. Instead unilaterally without thinking, he kind of created a negative action that could be misinterpreted for a positive purpose.” Meltzer stated.
“And I think that a lot of players should take heed and lessons from Kaepernick that, ‘hey there are great ways out there to use your platform to get your point across.’ Get help. Use the platform in a positive way so there isn’t any misinterpretation.”
Nothing says negative like putting a knee on the ground and fighting for people to be treated better.
Colin Kaepernick not having starting QB talent still wouldn’t warrant him being out of the league since his experience and taking a team to the Super Bowl is head and shoulders better than most back-up quarterbacks right now in the league. He is being blackballed plain and simple and the reality is, NFL owners either don’t want to deal with the backlash or they seriously dislike what he did during the National Anthem.
