the nfl threw him a bone yesterday to give a private practice at the falcons facility there in front of 25 scouts, of the 32 teams. he pulled a fast one at the last minute, saying no, i don t want to be a part of the official tryout. i m going to a local high school 60 miles away. i want the media to watch and he s saying he s the victim in this. because the nfl wanted to decide which media members would be there. they also wanted for him to sign some sort of liability agreement in case he got hurt. the nfl says it s standards. when college players come in, they do the workouts. here s kaepernick explaining what went wrong. for years, i ve been denied for three years. we all know why. i want to show in front of everybody, we have nothing to hide. we re waiting for 32 owners, the 32 teams, roge roger goodell, af
the falcons facility and instead had it moved to a nearby high school football field. christina coleman in our west coast bureau with the latest. hi, jon. today music mogul and businessman jay-z who is in partnership with the nfl to manage some of the league s community efforts is reportedly disappointed with kaepernick and feels like he turned a legitimate workout into a publicity stunt. reports surfaced this week saying jay-z, who has supported kaepernick worked to influence the nfl to set up saturday s workout and now this happened. in a last minute decision yesterday, kaepernick switched the location of his nfl arranged workout at the atlanta falcons state of the art practice facility to a high school stadium about 60 miles away. kaepernick s reps say he switched locations because the nfl denied his request for all media to be allowed into the workout to film it and for independent film there to be there to ensure transparency. his reps also say the nfl demanded he sign a liabili
standpoint, they have to be logistically and politically correct as well by saying we know he can play, but do we trust him enough to give him the platform to be able to speak on things the way which he typically goes about it. isaiah, to your point, the nfl says we re disappoint thad colin did not appear for his workout. the league said 25 clubs were at the falcons facility. the plan was to record the workout with an interview with kaepernick and distribute it to all 32 clubs. the nfl outlined other concessions and says that it was it was beneficial to him securing a krrt and capper it s tough to say. i genuinely think that the league was giving him an opportunity. i think that i don t think it was a pr stunt. i think the timing and everything, there s a lot of things we don t know that s a lot of hearsay. i think the 20-some teams, i think that was real. the opportunity to go out and prove he can play was real. but i also understand from kaepernick s standpoint and things t
took place. he knew that there was no way even if he went there, it was a very organized charade of the nfl. the nfl basically want to take themselves off the hook. hey, we gave you a tryout, what do you want. and then since we could see as the media, then, well, his arm wasn t strong, didn t look that good. we didn t know because we wouldn t see it. now we saw it. the guy looked great. his people there, it was almost like a rally. there was a combination of a workout and a kaepernick rally. do you feel like it was all part of kaepernick s plan do this last minute workout at a high school an murder away from tfrom hour away from the falcons facility? it was so organized. he basically outmaneuvered the nfl. which to me is justification for getting the tryout. because this guy is a great veteran. but it was so well organized. you couldn t just draw this up
right now he s out there in the center of the field with some of the receivers he was throwing passes to. i could tell you, we have had an eventful afternoon. this was supposed to be a private workout run by the nfl at the atlanta falcons practice facility. we were all there. the media was there. i watched at least 20 scouts from nfl teams enter that facility. at the very last second, we got a statement from colin kaepernick s representatives that it was not happening there. they pulled the rug out from under it and moved it to this high school stadium here near the atlanta airport. they did that apparently because it s about this liability waiver. t it had apparently an employment related clause in it that colin kaepernick s representatives were not comfortable with. so they said they would not sign it and were moving this workout to this location here. as you can see, the workout has, in fact, wrapped up. at the falcons facility, like i said, which was 58 miles from where we are now,