At some point, amid a small but vocal backlash, the platitudes will come. Some owner will be lauded for being "gutsy" enough to sign . Or he will be applauded for being "progre sive" enough to sign the overly qualified backup quarterback. We'll likely hear about this team not being a sheep, and breaking from the NFL Rudy Tomjanovich Jersey herd, which is often tainted by backward groupthink anyway. I wouldn't believe much of it. Whenever some team is desperate enough to sign a 29-year-old former Super Bowl quarterback who thinks beyond himself and is on a quest to try to make his community, and the world, a better place, it will be a busine s decision. Pure and simple. Whenever Kaepernick is extended a contract offer, it won't be because some organization has reached a point where it is now willing to send a signal to the rest of the league about what is right or wrong, or what should or should not be held against a qualified potential employee. It won't be because some owner now sees the inherent hypocrisy of teams welcoming in a stream of rookies with or at a time when a quarterback with a lifetime rating of 88.9 with 85 combined total touchdowns to 30 interceptions can't get a phone call from a general manager. It will be because Kaepernick was seen as the last, perhaps only, thing between salvaging a season and it falling into the aby s. It's clear now that Kaepernick is only going to be signed once he's viewed as the last man standing in the weak and tattered backup quarterback market, and the fact that this will come months after guys like , , and were given another shot is downright preposterous. While the league's collective decision to turn its back on Kaepernick, after his stance regarding police brutality and kneeling during the national anthem last season, is clearly in large degree political, let's not pretend that whichever team loses its starting pa ser and eventually pays Kaepernick to play football is making anything other than a busine s decision. The time to make a political statement of any sort regarding Kaepernick and his right to free speech and protected protest has long pa sed. Had someone stepped to the fore months ago, when guys like and were getting multiyear deals, then maybe an owner could take a bow for breaking free from the apparent statement being made in regards to one's right to expre sion in the NFL. Seeing Tyson Chandler Jersey the extend a contract to , the embodiment of NFL quarterback privilege for some -- over-drafted, an absolute failure as a starting quarterback in several locales and who finally lost his job to Kaepernick in San Francisco a year ago despite anyone in a position of power in that franchise trying to prop him up as long as po sible -- . Kaepernick can barely get anyone to kick his tires and make an exploratory phone call, despite still having a huge arm and athletic upside and better accomplishments than virtually any quarterback signed this offseason -- including at $18.5 million guaranteed in the first year of his deal with Chicago. Sorry folks, this ain't just about football. Hardly. As I pointed Christian Wood Jersey out early in this offseason when writing about Kaepernick, his career rating of 88.9 is 15th best in the NFL since 2011, when he entered the league, which puts him ahead of guys like , , , and . Yeah, ahead of some of the league's media darlings. He has 72 touchdown pa ses in 69 career games. For his career, Kaepernick has an interception percentage of just 1.8, which is behind only , and Alex Smith (yeah, the guy he beat out in San Francisco as a youngster). Pretty elite company. Is he the most accurate pa ser in the league? Nope. You would prefer he be better than 60 percent. But his body of work, even last season -- when he managed to account for 16 touchdowns and just four interceptions on a horrible team -- is far superior to what we are seeing other, le s "controversial" quarterbacks be rewarded for in the market. And in the meantime, while Kaepernick makes service trips and donates millions and stays out of trouble and isn't seen partying or hitting a cop or being accused of striking a female, others who have major red flags get that nice big bear hug from Roger Goodell on draft day, or at least a cozy phone call from an NFL owner, or general manager or head coach. Funny how that works. And in the meantime, an entire cottage industry emerges regarding faux reasons why an NFL team can't po sibly sign this quarterback, . It seems like some in Jae'Sean Tate Jersey the Bay Area can't just let this one go. After so many years of trying to impugn the quarterback's character through half-true-at-best leaks, I suppose old habits die hard. So we might as well sort through some of that as well while we're at it, as troubling as it is to wade into these muddy waters. Was Kaepernick, early in his career, the model teammate? No. He was shy and introverted and wore his earphones around the hallways of the team facility and turned some veterans off. He was immature and came out of obscurity from a small college program and like a lot of young quarterbacks he had growing up to do. He found his conscience and he found his voice and he handled what was a bitter and ugly situation in San Francisco a year ago -- one instigated by management -- with aplomb despite smears about everything from the extent of his many injuries to his work ethic. The inferior Gabbert played for weeks on end ahead of him, and nary a bad word from the backup. Is Kaepernick trying to sign a ma sive contract? Um, no. In fact, he has never even gotten into any substantive talks with NFL teams, so the very fact that there are alleged contract demands from him making the rounds in media reports for weeks is shady. This kid is giving away money left and right to the homele s and at-risk kids and to lead an aid mi sion to Somalia but now I'm supposed to believe he is hell-bent on making $12 million per year or else. Please. His representatives are well aware of what the market constraints are, particularly at this point with the real money long ago spent in free agency and every GM operating under a tighter budget now. Would it make sense to take a $1 million deal, plus incentives? Hell no. But had someone come at him with an offer in the range of or , there would have been plenty to talk about. Would Kaepernick just prefer to roam the earth anyway, like David Carradine in "Kung Fu," walking barefoot from town to town to solve social injustices with his mind, body and/or soul? Come on, man. Consider the motives of the people who spread this stuff around, especially if they are in the proximity of Santa Clara, California. Yes, Kaepernick clearly has a worldview that goes beyond his next endorsement deal -- heaven forbid! -- and he long ago gave the back of his hand to the NFL's lust Dikembe Mutombo Jersey for overly corporate, buttoned up, CEO quarterbacks who serve as fiscal extensions of the league's pursuit of profits. But that doesn't mean he loves football any le s. Football is a vehicle to affect change and impact