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1. Why now?
That is the question I keep asking after the NFL announced that it was holding a private workout for Colin Kaepernick in Atlanta this weekend.
The NFL has already paid off Kaepernick after settling a lawsuit. The kneeling issue has been dormant. The league is enjoying a rating surge. And the Tweeter-In-Chief is so busy dealing with impeachment that he hasn't bothered to fire off any rambling 240-character missives filled with misspellings about the NFL in a long time
So why reignite the Kaerpernick issue? Because the NFL is so sensitive to criticism that if it can just change one mind about Kaepernick being blackballed, the whole dog-and-pony show this weekend will be worth it.