This is all nice-speak by Carr, but I highly doubt Kap comes here.
As an African American, I used to think it was all about race, because he was defending black youth against police violence...remember, this was his main, maybe sole reason for taking a knee.
However, I've now seen the light. It's really ALL about business...i.e.
ticket sales and sponsorships.....and perception.
1)
Point 1: Whites make up 63.7 % of the population, the owners of all 32 NFL teams are white. IF you are an owner, you simply cannot have a QB on your team (especially a "black" QB), leading your team, who has so-called "disrespected" the USA flag. Your mom will hate you, your brother will hate you, your banker, your accountant, your golf buddies, your doctor, your stockbroker, your Senator buddy, your Congressman buddy, your Mayor pal, all your super-patriotic power player biz associates, the CEO of Nike, the CEO of Adidas, the CEO of Budweiser, etc....the people who pay for the commercials during your games will not put up with a "black" guy taking a knee during the national anthem...no way.
Now you can kill dogs (Vick), kill someone via DUI (pick any name here), call someone a n****r (Riley Cooper)....but you better not take knee buddy!.....that my friend, is not acceptable. Furthermore, if you go to an NFL game, you don't see a 63.7% white audience, you see more like a 95%+ white audience in the stands....it doesn't matter what city the game is in.....so Question: Who is going to buy tickets if your QB thinks he's Malcolm X?
2) Point 2: Miami is not your typical town in the US, it's mostly hispanic. Per the site below:
http://statisticalatlas.com/place/Florida/Miami/Race-and-Ethnicity
Miami is
67% Hispanic....wow, I didn't even know that till I looked it up. So your typical Miami Dolphin game audience won't be the standard USA town 95%+ white audience...it's more like, I would guess, maybe 50% white, 45% Hispanic, and 5% other. Now you throw on top of that Kap wearing the Fidel Castro T-Shirt, which everyone still seems to be talking about, and you have the hispanic fan-base here that will not accept the rebel Malcolm X QB guy either.
If Ross, who seems to not give a darn what other people think (which is cool), does decide to hire Kap, then he might not only face a reduction in ticket sales from the hispanic and white population, but these same hispanics, who are said to "run" Miami - may also decide to boycott the businesses that support the Miami Dolphins...who happen to now have Malcolm X as their new QB.
Ross is so rich though...that maybe he doesn't care if ticket sales slump 50%, or that tv viewership slumps 40%, or that 80% of the stadium and team sponsors bail out because of the new Black Panther Miami QB....however, business is business, so I think Kap stays unemployed.
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One final thought on this which I think was highlighted in the OJ tv series. If you were white, and you supported OJ, your white friends and family thought you were crazy, and maybe even stayed away from you, disowned you even. Rob Kardashian was avoided like the plague.
If you were black and did not support OJ, your black friends, black people in general, thought you were crazy, and thought you were a sell-out.
I don't know if Ross is married or not, but these 32 owners have wives, sons, daughters, etc...that all think Kap disrespected the country and is "bad" person. As a married man myself, no one wants to come home everyday and hear a bunch of crap from your spouse as to why I have Malcolm X as my QB. So not only do you have money pressure keeping you from hiring Kap, you also have family pressure as well.
Sports-wise (drama wise), I think it would be brilliant for TV. Kap doesn't suck (Henne does suck). Talk about a ratings bonanza for the Fins. You take a guy who has been dissed by 32 teams, pay him $6M, put him in a room with the QB Whisperer Gase, quick-pass, read-option, whatever the Gase-way is...pair him with Ajayi, Stills, DVP & Juice...and get him on the field...you don't think he is going to try to ball out for you?...You don't think he is going to try to prove the world that he can play? You would get a guy that would run through a wall for you. Playoffs? Yes. Maybe even more with Kap.
However, this won't happen. What owner wants to deal with all that baggage right? What owner wants to answer all the questions, etc, etc?...I think your typical owner would rather lose games than put up with all the negative attention. At least he'd be liked by his peers right?
Finally, Carr, Sherman, Flacco, Vermeil, and others might say whatever they want about Kap being a good QB, better than Fitz, McCown, Bortles, etc....but the bottom line is, it just doesn't matter.
