Panthers’ signing of Eric Reid doesn’t end blackballing

Now that Eric Reid has signed with the Carolina Panthers, will those nuts who support the protesters finally be forced to admit that all the talk about players being blackballed from the NFL was hysterical, trumped-up baloney?

Sorry. If anything, Reid’s signing highlights how political his long freeze-out really was, and how politics is keeping Colin Kaepernick unemployed.

It’s still all political. Follow this:

The only offers Reid got were from the 49ers and Panthers. When the disgraced Jerry Richardson, a fitting casualty of the #MeToo movement, sold the Panthers to David Tepper in May, the team jumped from one extreme end of the protest spectrum to the opposite extreme.

Richardson was staunchly anti-protest.