Colin Kaepernick set out in the offseason to become a changed man. From one point of view, he succeeded, but it wasn't for the better.
The Nevada Appeal mused about the Kaepernick it knew when he was quarterback at the University of Nevada, compared to the one currently under enormous pressure with the San Francisco 49ers.
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The college athlete has grown into an unrecognizable professional, it wrote, with his calling out of a random critic on Twitter a key component in the differences between the two.
"I admit it, I have no idea who that guy is who wears No. 7 for the San Francisco 49ers with the name Kaepernick stitched across the back of his jersey. The media guide says it's the former Nevada Wolf Pack quarterback Colin Kaepernick. The announcers doing the 49ers games say it's the guy who made Chris Ault's pistol offense come to life. That guy wearing No. 7 even looks like the former Wolf Pack quarterback. But then I hear No. 7 mumble, grunt and growl at the media, wearing headphones and a baseball cap pulled down over his eyebrows and I read his sarcastic, how-dare-you-criticize-me ramblings on Twitter and, well, it just can't be the same Colin Kaepernick who played for the Wolf Pack."
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"Making more than $100 million, getting to play quarterback in the NFL, looking like a model and walking around in the perfect body each day of your life and getting your choice of every woman on the planet must not be all that it's cracked up to be. It seems to have changed Kaepernick and not for the better. Kaepernick at Nevada was the most respectful young man you'd ever want to meet. He was humble, deferential, polite, modest, gracious and personable. He left Nevada, went back across the California state line and all that changed. Last week on Twitter he attacked one of his followers. Is the pressure of trying to be the next Joe Montana and Steve Young and living up to a $126 million contract overwhelming Kaepernick? I refuse to believe the jerk we've heard and seen wearing No. 7 for the 49ers is the true Kaepernick. That defensive, my-abs-and-girlfriends-are-prettier-than-yours jerk is the act. Right? The Kaepernick we learned to adore at Nevada is the true Kaepernick. Right?"
Kaepernick's struggles, as well as those of his team, have created a split personality - where the media is counting the number of words he says during an entire news conference, to him coming back and saying he has to handle himself better.
He's doing the same thing on the field - where he had his lowest quarterback rating in 2014 and now is working with two-time NFL MVP Kurt Warner on how to become a better pocket passer.
It seems that once Kaepernick has completed his learning process, his true colors will come out. Which colors those will be remains up in the air.
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