Will any Cowboys player sit for the anthem week 1?

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Chuck 54 said:
Look for it; if Colin Kaepernick isn't on an NFL team roster by opening day, even as a backup, their Will be NFL players who will demonstrate their solidarity, possibly even kneeling during the anthem, daring owners to do something.

This won't be about players agreeing with Kaepernick about the country and injustice or about disrespecting the flag, and they will say that. This will be about anger that the NFL owners are blackballing a member of the NFL brotherhood. There are 100 QBs in camp, including our own noodle arm Moore, whose ugly velocity was on display last night. Say what you will about the guy; there are not 50 QBs better than Kaepernick. Now we see injuries starting to threaten teams' seasons.

Even the players who hate what he did will support Kaepernick's right to work and have another chance. I hope he gets signed in the coming weeks so this can go away, but if not, look out.
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I don't care which owner says what (even Jerry).. This bull crap handling of Kaepernick is a problem. There are numerous teams he can help right now. I won't write pages and pages on my opinion of the whole thing. I'll spare you all that one. However, I will say that nothing he has done has affected the outcome of any games played in a 49er uniform. I respect him for his bravery. Stand for something or you will fall for anything...
 
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I really doubt any player does it this year--it's not needed. The protest last season accomplished it's goal spectacularly; it brought awareness to an issue without any violence or malice. Such a simple gesture steamrolled into such a controversy that a year removed new threads and news stories pop-up everyday. There is no need to pile on, it's already in your head.
 

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dexternjack said:
Jerry has already said that if any one of his players sit, they will find their way off the team......so, that would be a no.
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That's what I like about Jerrah. And as far as a player using the NFL as his platform to voice his personal feelings should be hit hard in the wallet & suspended a few games. Again, I blame Goodell to allow this kind of foolishness to continue in the NFL.
 

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He is just not a good enough QB for any team to take on all the crap that comes with him. Very simple. He started this figuring a city like SF would support him and the team would be afraid to cut him. He was TOO DUMB to figure out that HIS OWN ACTIONS blackballed him.
 
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Even the players who hate what he did will support Kaepernick's right to work and have another chance.
First, there is no right to work or to have a second chance. K-nick, the EMPLOYEE, brought his politics into his workplace and involved his EMPLOYER in this PR nightmare. Since his protest,K-nick is about as toxic as you can get. Look at what the media is doing to the Ravens for even suggesting that they might be interested in signing him. When will they sign him, why are they waiting, are they white balling him too, and every one of these articles mentions the name of the Baltimore Ravens front and center. Even the Cowboys don't want this circus around and every one knows that Jerrah loves a good circus.
 
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Denim Chicken said:
I really doubt any player does it this year--it's not needed. The protest last season accomplished it's goal spectacularly; it brought awareness to an issue without any violence or malice. Such a simple gesture steamrolled into such a controversy that a year removed new threads and news stories pop-up everyday. There is no need to pile on, it's already in your head.
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It's only in your head when the media finds some reason to regurgitate it, otherwise, I doubt if you have thought about K-nick since last season. Trayvon Martin, Freddie Gray, or that kid in Ferguson Missouri,when was the last time you thought about those incidents? Probably, not since the media reported on those stories. I agree with another poster that K-nick committed career suicide, not because of the protest message but how he did it.
 
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I'm all for Kap speaking his mind. We live in the US where you have the right to free speech. Where you won't get shot for what you say. It's the greatest nation because of that. Good for him.

But when you publicly disrespect the flag, that's going over the line. The idiocy of doing so deserves to be punished. I hope he never plays a down of football again.
 
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Chuck 54 said:
Look for it; if Colin Kaepernick isn't on an NFL team roster by opening day, even as a backup, their Will be NFL players who will demonstrate their solidarity, possibly even kneeling during the anthem, daring owners to do something.

This won't be about players agreeing with Kaepernick about the country and injustice or about disrespecting the flag, and they will say that. This will be about anger that the NFL owners are blackballing a member of the NFL brotherhood. There are 100 QBs in camp, including our own noodle arm Moore, whose ugly velocity was on display last night. Say what you will about the guy; there are not 50 QBs better than Kaepernick. Now we see injuries starting to threaten teams' seasons.

Even the players who hate what he did will support Kaepernick's right to work and have another chance. I hope he gets signed in the coming weeks so this can go away, but if not, look out.
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The answer is no. The kaepernick camp and folllowers are dieing out like a west Texas cult. Notice all the big popular athletes don't chime in. There's no Lebron outrage for kap or there's no cam newton kneeling in support. It's just the bottom of the barrel , fringe guy here or there.

NFL sent out a message, feel free to kneel during your work hours or at your work place and live with the consequences ( positive or negative).
 
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haleyrules said:
With the Jones family's view of law enforcement..NO player will sit or in any other way protest during the anthem.
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:hammer::hammer::hammer:

Why do people still question this. There is absolutely 0 chance that any cowboys player kneels. 0.
In fact for any NFL player out there, go ahead and try it see what happens. Look, why don't they just go out and call a press conference and kneel on their own time.
 
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