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Colin Kaepernick favoriting haters Tweets, for motivation?

By Mike Dyce

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Sep 15, 2013; Seattle, WA, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick (7) walks along the sideline during the fourth quarter at CenturyLink Field. Mandatory Credit: Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY Sports
Sep 15, 2013; Seattle, WA, USA; San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick (7) walks along the sideline during the fourth quarter at CenturyLink Field. Mandatory Credit: Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY Sports /

The San Francisco 49ers hasn’t gotten off to quite the start they had hoped for. They are currently 1-2 and quarterback Colin Kaepernick has been looking at all the nay-sayers on Twitter and marking them as favorites, possibly for motivation?

This is the tweet that pointed it out to me:

Now I think he is onto something about the motivation part because on September 11th he favorited this Tweet:

So anyways, Kaepernick has been favoriting tweets from 49ers fans that are relatively negative since their loss on Sunday. They range from disgruntled fantasy owners, to 49ers fans calling for Alex Smith to return.

Here are some of the tweets:

If I had Kaepernick on my team, I’d start him next week. Aside from the motivation they’re playing a St. Louis Rams team that was just dominated by the Dallas Cowboys.

Apparently this isn’t new to this week, he’s been doing it for a while since the Super Bowl loss. It has definitely picked up though since the loss to the Colts.

And this is the oldest one:

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