There’s no hurt in offering Colin Kaepernick a workout, as Michigan’s spring game proved

It is been practically a 7 days given that Jim Harbaugh invited Colin Kaepernick to toss footballs at halftime of Michigan’s spring activity and, as much as we can tell, the plan has not been abandoned by its supporter foundation, the pupil body hasn’t turned into a band of unpatriotic anarchists and the soccer team itself has not toppled at the hands of some unsolvable quagmire of political discussion. The “distractions” brought on by Kaepernick’s arrival—if they exist at all—didn’t seem to curtail the range of content articles penned about Michigan’s freshman receivers, who feel to have amazed all in attendance.

The Lions, who have been prominently represented in Ann Arbor, did not have their facility buried beneath a feverish letter-crafting campaign from anxious citizens. Dan Campbell was not challenged to some type of bareknuckle standoff (however it may possibly appear to be silly to try out a thing like that under any situation).

In other words, everyday living moved on, which is most likely what would materialize if an NFL crew were being to formally perform out or even sign Kaepernick ideal now.

This has been an interesting 7 days for NFL truth of the matter telling. Experiences from league conferences uncovered that Pete Carroll dressed down owners around their collective lack of ability to phase out of their comfort zones and relate to coaching candidates of shade the way they comfortably associate with their white counterparts. Though it would have been neat if Carroll in fact claimed all this in entrance of owners—he was in a conference whole of coaches and GMs—and though it would have been definitely great if he said it during any of his dozens of push conferences every 12 months or to his 2.1 million followers on social

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