Thread after watching @NFLFilms Turning Point: Before I interviewed 15 for my book, I thought I understood him. I was wrong. I mean, I knew he wanted to be an all-time great. But after speaking with him, I came to understand it’s more than that. Actually, he wants to be a better version of himself than even he imagines he can be while helping the @Chiefs attain things never before attained in the history of the @NFL. That brings me to Turning Point. While many of his teammates were still celebrating on the field with their families and making

Thread: Been tied up working, so I missed the “report” on Ben Johnson supposedly interviewing so poorly with the @Commanders being the reason he informed the team he wouldn’t take the job. This is all-time banana-in-the-tailpipe stuff. Even as I typed that, the mental gymnastics it would take for one to … OK. In order to believe in the veracity of this “report,” and for myriad reasons I don’t, one would have to accept that the Washington contingent that flew to meet Johnson for another interview did so knowing it would not offer him the job

I know I should just leave this alone, but there’s so much inaccurate information surrounding the Kaepernick settlement that I feel compelled to explain a few things. First, stop conflating things. Kaepernick’s collusion grievance is separate from his activism. He legal action against the NFL was an employment matter. He alleged NFL owners conspired to ruin his career, denying him both past and future earnings. The remedy for this, from Kapernick’s perspective, is financial compensation. As labor lawyers have explained to me, the arbitrator could not