For me, it didn't bother me when it started.  I only wondered who would have a job the following season.  This season, however, it feels like since there is no endgame, no defined goal, that it has become trendy.  This season, it feels like that though they aren't protesting the military or the flag or the anthem, that they are just using the flag & anthem as their stool to a different kind of attention.  The flag and anthem is simply a platform to them, nothing more.  I think they've had more than enough time to take different step by taking their money to lower level legislation on up to mayors, governors, senators, etc...  The seed is more than planted to NFL fans, but, I can't help but feel like they don't know what to do with their stance now.  No endgame.  No direction.  Just a trendy platform to get a different kind of attention that playing football doesn't offer them which also became a distraction from the real reasons they began taking a stance in the first place.