The NFL pre-season is just around the corner. Teams are starting get their engines running. Players are working out, coaches are navigating through the free agents available to fill any gaps or if possible improve a few positions and tinker with the roster before they have to cut it down to 53. Preseason in short is a method for coaches to test and observe players that can potentially aide them in their quest to victory. Two available free agents come to mind. Johnny Manziel and Colin Kaepernick. Both are quarterbacks that are currently without a team. The news up front is simple. Two QBs that are free agents looking for a team. Now unfortunately, the world isn't as black and white as deciding what flavored ice cream one wants to enjoy during the summer.
Colin Kaepernick has had one of the most interesting free agency sagas I have ever seen in my short sports viewing career. Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem at the start of the season to protest what he believed to be the unjustly shootings on the black community. He played for the San Francisco 49ers for the 2016 NFL season. He started the season as a back up and ended up earning the starting position. Kaepernick ended the season with sixteen touchdowns and four interceptions which is actually a lot more impressive knowing that he did it with the 49ers. For those who don't follow the game too closely the 49ers were a disaster, from the front office to the team's play. Kaepernick opted out of his contract at the end of the season.
Johnny Manziel or Johnny "Football" as he is also known as, came out today announcing that he is seeking on returning to play professional football. Stating that he has been in contact with a few teams. That has not been verified to my current understanding at this time. Manziel hasn't played a game for over a season almost two.
I wont get too into the numbers and stats as those are readily available anywhere online. The point is that one of these two free agents has played longer and demonstrated to be a play short on winning the grand prize, the super bowl. The other was a over-hyped college player that did not impress at all in his two seasons in the league that was filled with actual controversies. From what I have been able to detect on a hunch from the media and football world is that Manziel has a better opportunity on landing on a team than Kaepernick. My football "intelligence" tells me that neither one will get signed. That is not to say that both are on the same standard on their quality of play. Colin Kaepernick by far has demonstrated that he is clearly the better player of the two and to compare them is a bit laughable. One could argue (those in the anti-kaepernick group, let me help you out) that teams could sign Manziel on a cheaper contract. He would demand less money than Kapernick. However, those who state Kaepernick is a distraction can not logically in any way hold on to that argument. Just how Kaepernick has proven to be the better quarterback of the two, Johnny Manziel has demonstrated on multiple occasions to be a distraction and burden to a football team. Now only time will tell how the NFL and its teams will demonstrate their "intelligence." In a free market teams can do as they please, there is a great product out there for buy that can benefit them. The free market is a great place to see which team is dumb enough to sign the distraction.
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