(02-20-2019, 06:49 AM)JackCity Wrote:

(02-20-2019, 02:35 AM)JagNGeorgia Wrote: No, admittedly I don't know what's required for collusion cases, but I also wouldn't assume his case would justify an estimated $60M settlement. A number, if true, is likely significantly less than what he asked. I don't pretend to know if his case is text book collusion, but that's also partly why I said I don't understand why it was allowed to continued. Similarly, I'd ask if you know (and how you know) if his case is one of collusion. It's difficult to understand your first and second points since I don't know of any other instances in sports where collusion was cited. 

I think you may be confusing my point.

I never said he didn't belong in the NFL. I do believe teams avoided him because of his protesting, but I believe teams use personal reasons to avoid players. If he was good enough to overlook his protesting, I don't doubt he'd still be on a team. My stance is that he's overrated and hasn't produced a season worthy of praise. He had a couple decent seasons. However, like how you contribute some of their failures to their defense, I contribute some of their success to the defense.

Defensive rankings:
2012--3rd
2013--5th
2014--10th
2015--29th
2016--32nd

I think this hurts your stance. They were only good when their defense was good. Kaep was just good enough to take advantage of that, but he wasn't good enough to overcome it.

The reason the NFL settled is so their dirty laundry wasn't aired out. They probably would have won the case. The cost of silence from Kap and Reid would definitely cost a significant amount of money.   

Kind of lazy to ignore the total talent and coaching drop off from 2012 to 2016. Not many QBs would have made those 49ers teams good in 2015/2016, even still he looked like a starting caliber QB in 2016 , despite nothing around him