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https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/2808...ommitted-attend

Former NFL head coach Hue Jackson will lead the drills during quarterback Colin Kaepernick's scheduled workout in Atlanta on Saturday, and former NFL head coach Joe Philbin will be in attendance to assist, the league announced Thursday.

The NFL said 11 teams have committed to attend: the Arizona Cardinals, Atlanta Falcons, Cleveland Browns, Denver Broncos, Detroit Lions, Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots, New York Giants, New York Jets, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Washington Redskins. The league said it expected additional teams to commit.

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Sources told ESPN that the Dallas Cowboys and Seattle Seahawks also are expected to go.

Jackson told ESPN's Josina Anderson that he "just found out about it" on Thursday.

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"The NFL asked me to do it. I'm excited about doing it for Colin and the league. As far as I know right now, Colin is still attending," he said.

The league reiterated that it would send video of the workout and an interview with Kaepernick to all 32 teams.

Kaepernick, 32, has been out of football since 2016, the year he began protesting police brutality and racial injustice by kneeling during the pregame national anthem.

The NFL will not provide Kaepernick's representatives with a list of executives and coaches who will attend the workout, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter on Wednesday.

Sources earlier Wednesday told ESPN that the NFL had agreed to give the Kaepernick camp a list of attendees. However, an NFL source later told ESPN that the league never promised to provide that list.

The NFL informed its clubs Tuesday that the private workout would be held for Kaepernick on Saturday in Atlanta. Sources previously told ESPN that the league office said none of the 32 teams had been made aware of the workout before Tuesday's memo was sent. When Kaepernick's representatives asked whether a team or teams had asked for the workout, the NFL league office said, "We can't tell you that," the reps explained.

Carolina Panthers safety Eric Reid, who was the first player to join Kaepernick in taking a knee during the anthem while both were with the San Francisco 49ers, said Wednesday that "it feels disingenuous" that the NFL would schedule a workout for the quarterback on Saturday.

"I'll believe it when I see it," Reid said Wednesday. "At this point, it feels like a PR stunt."


NFL workouts typically take place on Tuesdays because head coaches and general managers can attend more easily. On Saturday, almost half of the NFL teams will be traveling to games, and most of the rest of the coaches and players will be heading to their team hotels to prepare for games the next day.

Philadelphia Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins said Thursday he also was skeptical.

"I really hope it's a serious shot for him to get back in the league," Jenkins said. "I think he deserves to be in the league. For the last three years, he has unjustly not had a job. But based on all of the things that have led us to this point, it leaves me a little skeptical of the motivations behind it. But I think like anybody, we're just all waiting to see."

ESPN's Tim McManus contributed to this report.

LOL...

Stop me if you heard this one... "Hue Jackson and Colin Kapernick walk into a training facility"

Both leave unemployed because they suck.

Well, this will add to the circus lol

This does feel like a publicity stunt.

If the Browns want to accomplish what 3 years without a team and 20 years of sucking failed to do - lose me as a fan - they should sign Kaepernick.

Maybe Hue should direct the venue to play the national anthem before the workout.

Hue talking to Colin... " Get on your knees all you want...Just remember..I drive the bus "

Colin Kaepernick is an Anti-American.

Colin Kaepernick is also washed up.

Kaepernick isn't anti-American he's anti-police brutality. He's against black people being killed for no reason at all. Just the color of their skin. He wasn't the only one protesting either. The FACT is, he was exercising his constitutional rights and blackballing him from his profession is what is anti-American. People say to protest peacefully. Non-violently. Then when they do, you have a problem with that too? Alrighty then.

PR stunt, or the big haired douche bag is running low on funds and its time to grovel with the NFL....my $0.02

You don't disrespect the flag!!!!!!!!!!

He did and he led many others to also.

There are a million other ways he could protest the issue in question instead of kneeing our Sacred Flag!

I’m with u ... if we sign that POC I’m done with the browns and by extension the nfl ....

His support of one Fidel Castro seems a wee bit hypocritical coming from someone so upset with police brutality here .... *shrugs*

0 + 0 still = 0 .... no?

Person of color? Freudian slip?

Should be POS.

Your FACT is incorrect. You dont have that right on private property, nor can you behave however you want at your employers and expect to remain employed.

If he actually wanted to exercise his constitutional rights he would have done so in the street on his own time.

But he never bothered to do that, did he?

It was a publicity stunt for money and attention.

And now he is a washed up old crappy qb who is just fishing for more publicity. (money)

Piece of crap. J/C

Whats a Colin Kaepernick ?

Cute.

He is a has been.

Does that help you?

is this a j/c thing?

because... I didn't say anything except he sucks as a football player.

Someone so irrelevant to the game of football, that I can't spell his name properly.

I would love the Browns to sign him as a backup even if he never plays. Just because I know it would irritate a few specific posters.

ROTFLMAO !!

Future headlines...

13 GM's explain to Kap why he can't take a knee after every snap.

13 GM's explain to Hue that he can't keep throwing the red flag in a workout.

Hue Jackson soaks football in a bucket of water. ...heard mumbling to Kap "this is what Lake Erie feels like"

Hue thought he felt the earth move but remembered he had Taco Bell for lunch.

Sashi Brown sends Kap's agent a fax that says "I'd rather have AJ McCarron"


Remember to tip your waitress. I'll be here all week.

If a caper ever nicked your colon you wouldn't be asking that question.

lmao

J/c

Folks forget .... he quit .... he opted out of the last year of his contract .... after not playing well they year ....

j/c

Why is the NFL involved in this at all?

Who decided Hue should run the workout? My goodness.

Can he play defensive end?

Trying to make themselves look better to the courts ....

Him disrespecting the flag is his right. He is doing so based on his opinions. It is his right to do so.

People who disagree with how he is expressing himself are also expressing an opinion, which is their right. Somehow this is different.

Freedom of expression does not include forbidding others from disagreeing with you. It also does not mean others even have to listen to you, or acknowledge you.

so, Hue loses another game?

And there you have it. In the case of a lawsuit moving forward they can show they went out of their way to give him a shot.

The fact remains that the NFL is a business. Any team who would actually sign him would absorb the repercussions of their fan base and negative publicity that goes along with it. It is an instant recipe for turmoil.

Didn't Kap sue the NFL for blackballing him?

Not as of yet. But the accusations have been out there for a while.

I look at what happened in the concussion lawsuit. The NFL has gone to great lengths to at the very least put on the image that they are trying to address head injuries ever since.

Smart corporations have attorneys who try to look ahead and avoid future lawsuits. The old saying, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure", is quite applicable here. An inexpensive try out now could save many millions in a possible law suit later.

I consider it a very smart and calculated move.

Yes. They came to a settlement.

The workout was moved at the last minute.

60 miles, that's not just across town.

That doesn't demonstrate team collaboration, draw your own conclusion.

I heard about this on the radio, because it is local.
They said they moved it for "transparency". Whatever that means.

If I get it correct, Kaep wanted it broadcast and to have all media access ... and the NFL didn’t?

Correct.

Kaep and his team likely thought that if they changed the venue, the nfl reps would show up anyway since they were already in town. However, planning to be in Flowery Branch, and all of a sudden having to go to Riverdale. That's at least a hour trip, and traveling in Atlanta on a Saturday, you can likely add another 30-45 mins to that trip time on top of that.

Any rep with any kind of pride would say bump that. I'm not going. He's applying for a job with us, not vice versa.

Oh, my. This is going make a team want to pick him up. He's acting like he's calling the shots, not somebody that really wants a job.



I think SAS nailed it with this take: