It's real simple.  He decided to kneel during the National Anthem, and now no one wants that "headache".  Not even Joe Thomas who never uttered a word about Josh Gordon.  And now people are happy he's not finding work.

The bolded part is a little much.

He's a vet QB that can start and has started in the NFL, his contract demands are what is dogging him, IMO.

Worse players have been given multiple opportunities.

I don't think anyone wants to give him either of those items. Part of me believes he could start for a few teams, but isn't worth the headache for those teams, either.

What headache?  Being suspended for violating the league's substance abuse policy?  Beating his wife?  Driving 105 MPH with minors in his car?  beating his 2 year old son with a branch?  What headache besides standing (or in this case kneeling) for expressing his beliefs and putting his money where his mouth was?

Don't play dumb here. You know how much his National Anthem protest pissed people off. Then he was sympathetic to Castro when he died and wore the "pig socks" to piss another huge segment of the population off. He's also not very good anymore. Not a good combination.

He didn't raise awareness for shit. 

That's all damage control after-the-fact. He's trying to repair his image/reputation. But it's too late. Kaepernick is about as toxic a player as there is in the NFL right now....which is saying quite a lot!

When 49ers coach Jim Tomsula benched Colin Kaepernick after San Francisco's Week 8 loss to St. Louis, Tomsula said he made the decision because he wanted to let Kaepernick "step back and breathe."

Although that might be partly true, former 49ers linebacker Bill Romanowksi seemed to insinuate that there might have been more involved in the decision-making process. During an interview with 95.7 The Game in San Francisco on Friday, Romanowski said that the coaches weren't thrilled with the way Kaepernick prepared for games.

"Let's talk Colin preparing for games. And you know how they get iPads now. And they regulate, and they can watch how much film you watch. Blaine Gabbert, when he was a backup, was watching four to five times as much film as Colin was," Romanowski said, via Ninersnation.com.

It's an interesting comment to hear from a guy who spent six seasons in San Francisco. It's also interesting to hear because just two days before Romanowski made the comments, Cardinals defensive back Tyrann Mathieu said Gabbert was a "better option" for San Francisco.

"That's not to take anything away from Kaepernick, but it seems like Gabbert has a little bit better grip on what's going on," Mathieu said on Nov. 25. "If he gets in a situation, he knows where the ball needs to go. He's a hell of a passer. I think he's underrated when you talk about how well he can throw the football."

Mathieu, who will be trying to stop Gabbert on Sunday when Arizona visits San Francisco, also said that his team was very familiar with everything that Kaepernick was trying to do on the field.

"We just knew Kaepernick's tendencies," Mathieu said. "We knew what he liked to do. We knew which way he wanted to roll out. We knew what side of the field he liked to read to."

Basically, Mathieu made it sound like he could tell that Gabbert was watching more film and studying harder.

"You don't pick up those same things with Gabbert," Mathieu said. "He's better in the pocket. He has a better feel for coverages. It seems like he can get to the line and see a coverage and then go to a different play. Or, see a coverage and not throw the ball. You can see Gabbert's maturity and the different things he does well that Kaepernick doesn't do well."

He has every right to protest.  Stop making it about you.

He has every right to protest, but people don't have the right to think he's a douchebag?


Fuck him and the horse that he rode in on.