Stephen A. Smith responds to Kaepernick workout, Eric Reid complaints

[jimnyc]

I do not watch this guys show on whatever sports channel it is. I don't listen in to whatever radio/TV stuff he does. I think he's cocky as hell and arrogant. He loves to judge all the athletes as if he knows more than them But that's his job.

Anyway, he first responded on Twitter to the jerk Eric Reid. That is another player that supports Kap and degrades anyone against him. And then the video below about Kap, you should watch it, 3 minutes!! He is spot on about Eric Reid, and the entire situation he mentions on Twitter - and then he NAILS the situation with what Kaepernick pulled this weekend.

The NFL has officially called Kaepernick a "no show" for this weekends workout.

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Stephen A. Smith, Eric Reid feud on Twitter over Colin Kaepernick workout

ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith and Carolina Panthers safety Eric Reid got into a lengthy Twitter feud on Saturday night, just hours after Colin Kaepernick participated in a workout in front of NFL scouts in Atlanta.

Shortly after Kaepernick’s workout — which marked the first significant step in recent months in the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback’s battle to land with a new team — Smith went to Twitter to post one of his classic reaction videos.

Smith took issue with Kaepernick’s last-minute move to change the venue of the workout, and thinks that he doesn’t actually want another chance to play in the league.


“This man wanted a chance. Twenty-five teams show up in Georgia at the Atlanta Falcons practice facility … And what does Colin Kaepernick do?” Smith said, in part. “Not Tuesday, when he found out about it. Not Wednesday, not Thursday, not Friday, Saturday, three hours before the workout, because of some issue with a liability waiver, Colin Kaepernick wants to change the venue. Colin Kaepernick wants his own receivers. Colin Kaepernick wants to video things himself. Colin Kaepernick wants the media … He don’t want to play. He wants to be a martyr.”

Kaepernick changed the venue of the workout at the last minute on Saturday, moving it from the Falcons practice facility to a local high school in order to allow the media to watch and film the event to maintain a “transparent and open process.” The NFL later released a statement saying it was “disappointed that Colin did not appear for his workout,” even though he still worked out in front of several teams and the media.

Reid — who played with Kaepernick in San Francisco and took a knee with him during the national anthem at games to protest police brutality and social injustices in the United States — took offense to Smith’s tweet.

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Smith quickly fired back, launching eight tweets at Reid to defend his take.

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Rest - https://sports.yahoo.com/espn-stephen-a-smith-eric-reid-fight-on-twitter-colin-kaepernick-workout-atlanta-protests-054022585.html


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y7fzEHKI9Y

[jimnyc]

I don't know about "all" as he will always have supporters like Eric Reid, folks who won't listen to any reason at all. :rolleyes: But he will now lose a lot of support that he had. I know a lot of top name folks have spoken out and or shrugged their shoulders and agreed that he really doesn't wanna play.

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Inevitable—Everyone Hates Kaepernick Now

He Finally Did It

In the three years since Colin Kaepernick knelt his way off of the San Francisco 49ers and out of the National Football League, the one thing the drama has lacked is ambivalence. People either hated him or viewed him as a social hero who was being mistreated and prevented from playing the game he loves.

Now everybody just hates him.

Throughout his supposedly unwanted hiatus from football, Kaepernick and those representing him have insisted that he is staying in playing shape and merely wanted a chance to showcase his skills for a team.

Last week, the NFL offered him that chance. The Nike hero was supposed to work out for twenty-five teams in Atlanta last Saturday.

As most of you probably know by now, the workout was derailed a bit because Kaepernick did what he truly does best: act like an insufferable prima donna.


At 2:30 p.m. Eastern time, with about two dozen scouts waiting at the Falcons’ facility, Kaepernick announced that the workout would be moved to a high school an hour away. Many scouts threw up their arms and headed straight to the airport. Dozens of reporters and cameramen drove south to the high school field.

The NFL -- which often gets things like this wrong -- responded like adults, but if you read between the lines here, you can see that they’re really over Kaepernick:


NFL’s response to Colin Kaepernick opting to do his own workout today in Atlanta: pic.twitter.com/uvUZGH7CQ5

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) November 16, 2019

ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith recorded a short video that really summed up this mess perfectly:


He doesn't want to play. pic.twitter.com/ZuSI1IVW9r

— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) November 17, 2019

One thing that gets lost in all of the noise that Kaepernick deliberately creates around himself is that his quarterback skills had been in a bit of a freefall throughout most of his last season in the NFL. He’d been benched, and that had nothing to do with his kneeling. A few years away from the game certainly haven’t made any of that better, no matter how hard he’s been working out.

Kaepernick probably has adequate NFL backup quarterback skills, but does anybody believe this pathological attention you-know-what would take that kind of role?

Not after last Saturday.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/the-morning-briefing-inevitable-everyone-hates-kaepernick-now/

[Gunny]

Steven A is as big a narcissist jackass as Kap. He was in Kap's corner proclaiming the NFL had blackballed him. If Kap went too far for even Steven A, you KNOW he went too far.

I don't watch Steven A. Can't stand him and always feel like somebody went un-bitch-slapped when I've run across him. I have to agree with him here. Maybe there's hope for him yet :)