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<blockquote data-quote="Squints" data-source="post: 345636" data-attributes="member: 822"><p>The Denver Broncos spent weeks trying to trade for him. The defending Super Bowl champions were looking to trade for him to be their starting QB after Manning's retirement. There was an agreement in place between the two teams if Kaepernick agreed to restructure his contract. He declined to do so, so it didn't happen.</p><p></p><p>Let's look at this logically for a second here. You are Colin Kaepernick's agent. It is late August. Your client is not happy and clearly does not want to be on the 49ers. You are actively trying to get him to go to another team. His contract for the 2016 season is already guaranteed as of mid April 2016. If he is cut then he is still paid his entire 2016 salary of (I think) ~$12 million. You know there is at least one team that without a doubt wants your client and others that are still looking for potential QB upgrades (Texans, Browns, & Jets off the top of my head). If your client is cut he can sign with any of these teams and it will cost them very little. If anything you probably want him to get cut yesterday.</p><p></p><p>Now you could make the argument that his agent wanted him to avoid getting cut so he didn't lose the salaries of the 2017-2020 seasons of the contract. But that doesn't hold much water for me when a few weeks later Kap and his agent went to the front office and asked for them to add an opt-out after the 2016 season (in exchange for waiving the injury guarantees of the contract) allowing him to leave after the season and forgo the rest of the money. Which he did. So IMO that end of contract money can't have mattered all that much if they offered to give it up willingly shortly after this whole fiasco started.</p><p></p><p>So your response to this situation is to come up with a scheme that makes your client a lightning rod of controversy where the two most likely outcomes are spend a year with an organization you're miserable with and give up the only potential benefit a few weeks later or be unemployed for a year with no chance to showcase your client's ability to play? What kind of game plan is that?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well that's an ironic couple of sentences to have back to back.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Squints, post: 345636, member: 822"] The Denver Broncos spent weeks trying to trade for him. The defending Super Bowl champions were looking to trade for him to be their starting QB after Manning's retirement. There was an agreement in place between the two teams if Kaepernick agreed to restructure his contract. He declined to do so, so it didn't happen. Let's look at this logically for a second here. You are Colin Kaepernick's agent. It is late August. Your client is not happy and clearly does not want to be on the 49ers. You are actively trying to get him to go to another team. His contract for the 2016 season is already guaranteed as of mid April 2016. If he is cut then he is still paid his entire 2016 salary of (I think) ~$12 million. You know there is at least one team that without a doubt wants your client and others that are still looking for potential QB upgrades (Texans, Browns, & Jets off the top of my head). If your client is cut he can sign with any of these teams and it will cost them very little. If anything you probably want him to get cut yesterday. Now you could make the argument that his agent wanted him to avoid getting cut so he didn't lose the salaries of the 2017-2020 seasons of the contract. But that doesn't hold much water for me when a few weeks later Kap and his agent went to the front office and asked for them to add an opt-out after the 2016 season (in exchange for waiving the injury guarantees of the contract) allowing him to leave after the season and forgo the rest of the money. Which he did. So IMO that end of contract money can't have mattered all that much if they offered to give it up willingly shortly after this whole fiasco started. So your response to this situation is to come up with a scheme that makes your client a lightning rod of controversy where the two most likely outcomes are spend a year with an organization you're miserable with and give up the only potential benefit a few weeks later or be unemployed for a year with no chance to showcase your client's ability to play? What kind of game plan is that? Well that's an ironic couple of sentences to have back to back. [/QUOTE]
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