(09-20-2017, 12:36 PM)FBT Wrote: The precedent is that even the most reprehensible players wind up on a roster if they have the talent to be there.  We've seen murderers, abusers (substance and physical), racists, and others who have managed to land on rosters over the years despite their baggage.  

But not as a backup QB. For some reason teams have historically refused to have distractions as backup QBs. For most teams, like Seattle, that's an understandable reason not to bring him in. For a couple teams, maybe just us and the Jets, Kaep is good enough to be the starter.

I think it's a perfect storm of most teams not wanting the distraction of him as the backup, the Jets being in full tank mode, and the one team that he would start for that actually has aspirations of winning is led by the oldest and stodgiest front office man in the league who likely does have personal contempt for Kaep's actions. I do honestly think that almost any other team in the league that had Bortles/Henne as their depth chart would have brought in Kaep by now.

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