Lead NFL Scout for Bleacher Report, Doug Farrar.

There is a defiance and creative expression when you have an administration that wants to shut it all down.

There's a rebellion to that. There is a futuristic pushing forward of, I don't know how already you are on this thing, so I'll just say, F you Trump, you know,

I'm going to produce this beauty. I'm going to take the football discussion a little bit

further. And if it intersects, like with the Kaepernick tape piece, that's great. To me,

it's all important. And it is more important than than ever for whether it's you doing all your writing and your podcast or me doing what I do or anyone you know I wouldn't want anyone to say to themselves something I do is more meaningless than it used to be because Donald flipping Trump is the president.

You look at a guy like Kaepernick who has experimented with a vegan diet and has, you know,

lost a lot of weight and oh, now he's, you know, too small to be, you know, there's always an

excuse to shun a player who speaks his mind freely.

Kaepernick is going to go his own way. I would bet that half the guys who have a problem with him

being an individual don't even know that they have a problem with him.

One drug, nay, on tomorrow, I depart to that one. they have a problem with him.

Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziren. This week, we speak to former Sports Illustrated journalist and current lead NFL scout for Bleacher Report, Doug Farrar.

He's one of the sharpest political people I know, so we are going to speak to him about Colin Kaepernick,

political athletes, but more importantly, what it means to be a sports writer amidst the insane

maelstrom of chaos that exists today in Trump's America. Also, I've got a special Just Sit

Your Ass Down Award for Stephen A. Smith, including the response by Michael Bennett to Stephen A. Smith's ridiculous, ridiculous rant about Colin Kaepernick and Michael Bennett being enemies of democracy.

I've also got some choice words, and these are very important, about Robert Mueller and his appointment to special counsel to investigate Donald Trump, not about the investigation or mainstream politics or anything of the sort, but looking at Robert Mueller's previous high-profile investigation into the Ray Rice incident and whether the National Football League and Roger Goodell fundamentally covered up or tried to cover up an egregious act of domestic violence.

I think Robert Mueller's attitude towards that case actually tells us a great deal.

In addition, I also, of course, have a Just Stand Up Award to a dear friend,

Aton Thomas.

I will explain why.

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