I never once said he had retired from football. I said he wasn't playing for the NFL currently.

EA still gets the blame for even coding it in in the first place. NFL don't have hired game coders, last time I checked, nor do they actively publish the game itself, that's all on EA, as they make the game and sell it.

You know when I said "add players from the 1920's" I was being literal to that example?. Like I want to push that logic so hard that it doesn't make any sense and is lauded for what it is, which is stupid, because these games are meant to be about the current season (for the majority part).

It's fine that you disagree, but others do not, so we'll have to chalk that up to the usual opinions part of the open discussion. 

So according to your flawed logic, EA should remove the ability to create customized characters at once since none of them have ever played in any NFL season.

And if not, why would that be okay?

random custom characters, not actual known irl players, no, by all means allow for "custom" characters.

If their main goal is to be using irl players over "custom" ones, then that's the rule.

I like how we've gone sharply from "I disagree" to "you're wrong and have flawed logic = I wanted to call you objectively wrong", all from "it doesn't matter" no less (if it didn't truly matter, you wouldn't be arguing this hard and looking up certain sources, but okay, sure). 

Hate eachother AND deserve eachother, perfect couple :p

Weird thing to be upset about on twitter. Franchise mode doesn’t have great simulation logic or realism, so who cares if he is rated an 81. An 81 in Madden is not great. Does he have a Superstar X-Factor skill?

Also Kaep was a fine QB in a shitty Chip Kelly system. The only sad thing here is that by peacefully protesting, he was blackballed from the league. And of course now that riots and looting is happening, all conservatives want to talk about is “well, why can’t they just protest peacefully”. It’s a joke.

As someone not fully invested in this story my take is:

He is not a good athlete but he kneeled during the anthem and now EA wants to score woke political points by idolizing him in the game.

I mean if you can’t be a star, do controversial things and make money off corporations piggybacking off the political spotlight I guess.

My take is,
info from a few years ago
" Kaepernick signed a six-year contract extension with the 49ers, worth up to $126 million"

So does the NFL generally give $126 million dollar contracts to terrible players?

He won 11 games in his last 35 starts over the last 3 years of his career, including a stretch of only 4 wins in his list 24 starts, and 1 win in his last 11 starts.  Meanwhile, Jimmy Garoppolo won 5 straight games as soon as he was acquired and named the starter the following year.  Sometimes, it actually is about the man under center.

And sometimes it’s about the head coach, the offense, the defense, etc. I’m not surprised that in two seasons under Chip Kelly and Jim Tomsula that the 49ers weren’t any good. I’m also not surprised that under Kyle Shanahan the 49ers have built a dominant run game and good defense. They ranked 29th in pass attempts last season, so it’s not as if Jimmy G is leading them to victories.

He surrendered his career.