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Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin had harsh words for the comments made by President Donald Trump regarding the NFL’s new national anthem policy on Thursday Patrick Omameh Jersey , as players began to process the new mandate from the league’s owners.
Baldwin has been a leading voice from the players’ perspective for why there were protests last season even though Baldwin never participated in kneeling or sitting on the sidelines during ”The Star-Spangled Banner.”
He spoke passionately after the Seahawks concluded their offseason workout and sounded offended by the president’s comments to ”Fox & Friends” in an interview that aired Thursday saying, ”maybe you shouldn’t be in the country” if you don’t stand for the anthem.
”He’s an idiot. Plain and simple,” Baldwin said. ”I respect the man because he’s a human being first and foremost, but he’s just being divisive, which is not surprising. It is what it is. But for him to say anybody who doesn’t follow his viewpoints or his constituents viewpoints should be kicked out of the country is not very empathetic. It’s not very American like, actually, to me. It’s not very patriotic. It’s not what this country was founded upon. It’s kind of ironic to me the President of the United States is contradicting what our country is really built on.”
Baldwin was among a handful of players that have expressed frustration and disappointment with the NFL mandating players must stand for the national anthem if they’re on the field, though they now have the option of remaining in the locker room for the playing of the anthem and carry on the campaigns against social injustice.
Even normally reserved Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson agreed with the sentiment that the owners’ decision was a message to players to essentially be quiet.
”Pretty much. I think that’s part of it. It seems that way,” Wilson said. ”But I think a policy right or wrong is not going to fix our problems.”
The new policy allows teams to adopt their own workplace rules, which many players interpreted as a backhanded way of subjecting them to fines, suspensions or loss of jobs should they carry on with the protests.
For Baldwin, who is among the players to have worked with the league on addressing social concerns and community programs, the anthem decision felt like a step back.
”If you’re asking my opinion, I think that in conjunction with the NFL, the way that things were going George Fant Jersey , I felt on the Players Coalition side of things we were coming to an amicable agreement and relationship and working toward initiatives and causes that we wanted to see as players addressed, I thought that you would see the demonstrations and the issues within the NFL dissipate,” Baldwin said.
”But again, when you stoke the fire and inflame a gap that was really dissipating at the time, diffusing, you cause more problems. That’s why I say I think the NFL missed it.”
Others around the league didn’t see the policy as a potential issue.
”I’m really not too worried about it. I would expect that everybody’s gonna be out there with their hand over their heart, showing respect to the flag and to the country,” New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees said.
But teammate Demario Davis had mixed emotions about the policy. His father served in the military, but he also understands why players have been protesting.
”I just think that when you love something – you care about it – you want to work to get it right. I love my children. When they do wrong things, I’m going to let them know they’re doing wrong things. I’m not just going to sweep it under the rug because I love them,” Davis said.
”I think that’s the difference between patriotism and nationalism. Nationalism is loving your country just to love it, you know, even when it’s right or wrong, you’re going to take the side of your country. Patriotism is loving it enough to sacrifice for it, but also to call it (out) when it’s wrong.
”The people who are speaking up for the people who are hurting have a deep love and devotion for our country. That’s kind of gotten misconstrued at times. But it’s important for people to understand that.”
The decision by the owners was an attempt to quell a firestorm by moving protests away from the public eye and potentially lure back disgruntled fans. But in the process they may have disgruntled their employees and rekindled what appeared to be an issue that was dying down.
”I feel like it might want to make people just want to rebel Derek Rivers Jersey , just like when Trump said what he said last year,” Denver linebacker Brandon Marshall said.
”People rebelled. And let’s be clear. I know they say they’ll fine the team, but players don’t care about that. Players don’t care about the teams get fined.”
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AP Pro Football Writer Arnie Stapleton and AP Sports Writer Brett Martel contributed to this report.
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Andrew Luck understands it will take time to prove his surgically repaired throwing shoulder is as good as he says it is.
First, he must pass a few more self-imposed tests.
As the Indianapolis Colts reported to training camp Wednesday, their incumbent quarterback sounded as eager and antsy as he did when he arrived as the highly touted No. 1 overall draft pick and hand-picked successor to Peyton Manning in 2012.
”I’m nervous. It will be interesting to step on the field again and practice and there will be some times that I’ll scratch my head and say what the heck did I just do? What the heck is going on?,” Luck said before later acknowledging one concern. ”I don’t want to fumble the first snap is what I don’t want to do.”
There are plenty of reasons for angst.
Thursday’s opening practice in Westfield, Indiana, a northern suburb of Indianapolis, will be the first time Luck has practiced or played in front of fans since January 2017.
Many of the names on the roster have changed since he threw a regular-season pass and some veterans still have not been in a huddle with Luck.
First-year coach Frank Reich has installed another new offense, the fourth Luck has learned as he heads into his seventh pro season.
Luck has not taken a hit in 19 months, and everyone will be monitoring Luck to see if he can fully recover from the partially torn labrum in his throwing shoulder.
The Colts don’t seem to be worried.
”When he practices, he’s full go. There are no restrictions,” Reich said. ”The reps are all counted out, so it’s easy to do the math.”
The initial plan calls on Luck to mimic his regular-season routine, throwing three days and taking one off.
But the irregular camp schedule will look slightly different. For instance Mason Crosby Jersey , Luck is expected to throw Thursday and Friday before sitting out Saturday and then returning Sunday when Indy holds its first night practice at the new training camp site, Grand Park Sports Campus.
”We’ll be in pads Sunday and we don’t want him to miss that,” Reich said.
Luck also will participate in live drills, which Reich describes as more physical than the Colts likely had in recent seasons. Reich replaces Chuck Pagano, who was fired just hours after last season’s finale after six seasons with the team.
Luck won’t be seen only at practice.
Reich intends to use Luck in preseason games, tentatively setting his debut for the Colts’ Aug. 9 opener at Seattle. General manager Chris Ballard hinted that could be the case last week.
The best news for Colts’ fans, though, might be the fact that the pain Luck played with for most of 2015 and 2016 and kept him out all of 2017 has subsided.
”I feel like I’m in a much better place. I’m the best I’ve felt in a long, long, time,” he said. ”I’ve got work to do still, I’ve got things that I’m going to have to go out and prove to myself. But I feel a lot better.”
He’s been throwing since May and spent the time between minicamp and reporting day working out in California with a cadre of receivers including teammate Chester Rogers. Reich watched footage from the workouts and said he could see a steady, consistent progression.
But Luck knows workouts on college fields don’t necessarily translate to success on Sunday afternoons.
”I’ve got some work to do still and there is going to be a situation on the practice that I have not been in yet – like having to avoid a guy and playing at that little extra tempo, that speed,” he said. ”So there are steps I still need to take. I’m not kidding myself Justin Coleman Jersey , and with that comes the endurance, the `Oh, that’s how I’ve got to throw the out to T.Y. (Hilton) or that’s how it is over the middle to (Jack) Doyle.”’
The Colts are doing their part to keep Luck healthy.
They invested heavily in revamping the offensive line, drafting guard Quenton Nelson in the first round, guard Braden Smith in the second round, re-signing versatile veteran Jack Mewhort and adding veteran free agent Matt Slauson.
And Luck hopes that making the effort to avoid preventable hits keeps his comeback on track, too.
”I think I’d be a bit of a fool not to (change),” he said. ”I have to learn how to protect myself and how to protect the team.”
Notes: Safeties Clayton Geathers and Malik Hooker and guard Jeremy Vujnovich – all starters last season – have been placed on the physically unable to perform list. Geathers had offseason knee surgery, Hooker tore the anterior and medial collateral ligaments in October and Vujnovich pulled his calf while working out on his own this summer. … Running back Robert Turbin said he ”let his teammates down” by violating the NFL’s policy on performance-enhancers. He will miss the first four regular-season games. … The Colts signed safety Shamarko Thomas and waived cornerback Juante Baldwin on Wednesday. The 5-foot-9, 205-pound Thomas has played 60 games with the Buffalo Bills and Pittsburgh Steelers since 2013. Baldwin was an undrafted rookie.
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Baldwin has been a leading voice from the players’ perspective for why there were protests last season even though Baldwin never participated in kneeling or sitting on the sidelines during ”The Star-Spangled Banner.”
He spoke passionately after the Seahawks concluded their offseason workout and sounded offended by the president’s comments to ”Fox & Friends” in an interview that aired Thursday saying, ”maybe you shouldn’t be in the country” if you don’t stand for the anthem.
”He’s an idiot. Plain and simple,” Baldwin said. ”I respect the man because he’s a human being first and foremost, but he’s just being divisive, which is not surprising. It is what it is. But for him to say anybody who doesn’t follow his viewpoints or his constituents viewpoints should be kicked out of the country is not very empathetic. It’s not very American like, actually, to me. It’s not very patriotic. It’s not what this country was founded upon. It’s kind of ironic to me the President of the United States is contradicting what our country is really built on.”
Baldwin was among a handful of players that have expressed frustration and disappointment with the NFL mandating players must stand for the national anthem if they’re on the field, though they now have the option of remaining in the locker room for the playing of the anthem and carry on the campaigns against social injustice.
Even normally reserved Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson agreed with the sentiment that the owners’ decision was a message to players to essentially be quiet.
”Pretty much. I think that’s part of it. It seems that way,” Wilson said. ”But I think a policy right or wrong is not going to fix our problems.”
The new policy allows teams to adopt their own workplace rules, which many players interpreted as a backhanded way of subjecting them to fines, suspensions or loss of jobs should they carry on with the protests.
For Baldwin, who is among the players to have worked with the league on addressing social concerns and community programs, the anthem decision felt like a step back.
”If you’re asking my opinion, I think that in conjunction with the NFL, the way that things were going George Fant Jersey , I felt on the Players Coalition side of things we were coming to an amicable agreement and relationship and working toward initiatives and causes that we wanted to see as players addressed, I thought that you would see the demonstrations and the issues within the NFL dissipate,” Baldwin said.
”But again, when you stoke the fire and inflame a gap that was really dissipating at the time, diffusing, you cause more problems. That’s why I say I think the NFL missed it.”
Others around the league didn’t see the policy as a potential issue.
”I’m really not too worried about it. I would expect that everybody’s gonna be out there with their hand over their heart, showing respect to the flag and to the country,” New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees said.
But teammate Demario Davis had mixed emotions about the policy. His father served in the military, but he also understands why players have been protesting.
”I just think that when you love something – you care about it – you want to work to get it right. I love my children. When they do wrong things, I’m going to let them know they’re doing wrong things. I’m not just going to sweep it under the rug because I love them,” Davis said.
”I think that’s the difference between patriotism and nationalism. Nationalism is loving your country just to love it, you know, even when it’s right or wrong, you’re going to take the side of your country. Patriotism is loving it enough to sacrifice for it, but also to call it (out) when it’s wrong.
”The people who are speaking up for the people who are hurting have a deep love and devotion for our country. That’s kind of gotten misconstrued at times. But it’s important for people to understand that.”
The decision by the owners was an attempt to quell a firestorm by moving protests away from the public eye and potentially lure back disgruntled fans. But in the process they may have disgruntled their employees and rekindled what appeared to be an issue that was dying down.
”I feel like it might want to make people just want to rebel Derek Rivers Jersey , just like when Trump said what he said last year,” Denver linebacker Brandon Marshall said.
”People rebelled. And let’s be clear. I know they say they’ll fine the team, but players don’t care about that. Players don’t care about the teams get fined.”
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AP Pro Football Writer Arnie Stapleton and AP Sports Writer Brett Martel contributed to this report.
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Andrew Luck understands it will take time to prove his surgically repaired throwing shoulder is as good as he says it is.
First, he must pass a few more self-imposed tests.
As the Indianapolis Colts reported to training camp Wednesday, their incumbent quarterback sounded as eager and antsy as he did when he arrived as the highly touted No. 1 overall draft pick and hand-picked successor to Peyton Manning in 2012.
”I’m nervous. It will be interesting to step on the field again and practice and there will be some times that I’ll scratch my head and say what the heck did I just do? What the heck is going on?,” Luck said before later acknowledging one concern. ”I don’t want to fumble the first snap is what I don’t want to do.”
There are plenty of reasons for angst.
Thursday’s opening practice in Westfield, Indiana, a northern suburb of Indianapolis, will be the first time Luck has practiced or played in front of fans since January 2017.
Many of the names on the roster have changed since he threw a regular-season pass and some veterans still have not been in a huddle with Luck.
First-year coach Frank Reich has installed another new offense, the fourth Luck has learned as he heads into his seventh pro season.
Luck has not taken a hit in 19 months, and everyone will be monitoring Luck to see if he can fully recover from the partially torn labrum in his throwing shoulder.
The Colts don’t seem to be worried.
”When he practices, he’s full go. There are no restrictions,” Reich said. ”The reps are all counted out, so it’s easy to do the math.”
The initial plan calls on Luck to mimic his regular-season routine, throwing three days and taking one off.
But the irregular camp schedule will look slightly different. For instance Mason Crosby Jersey , Luck is expected to throw Thursday and Friday before sitting out Saturday and then returning Sunday when Indy holds its first night practice at the new training camp site, Grand Park Sports Campus.
”We’ll be in pads Sunday and we don’t want him to miss that,” Reich said.
Luck also will participate in live drills, which Reich describes as more physical than the Colts likely had in recent seasons. Reich replaces Chuck Pagano, who was fired just hours after last season’s finale after six seasons with the team.
Luck won’t be seen only at practice.
Reich intends to use Luck in preseason games, tentatively setting his debut for the Colts’ Aug. 9 opener at Seattle. General manager Chris Ballard hinted that could be the case last week.
The best news for Colts’ fans, though, might be the fact that the pain Luck played with for most of 2015 and 2016 and kept him out all of 2017 has subsided.
”I feel like I’m in a much better place. I’m the best I’ve felt in a long, long, time,” he said. ”I’ve got work to do still, I’ve got things that I’m going to have to go out and prove to myself. But I feel a lot better.”
He’s been throwing since May and spent the time between minicamp and reporting day working out in California with a cadre of receivers including teammate Chester Rogers. Reich watched footage from the workouts and said he could see a steady, consistent progression.
But Luck knows workouts on college fields don’t necessarily translate to success on Sunday afternoons.
”I’ve got some work to do still and there is going to be a situation on the practice that I have not been in yet – like having to avoid a guy and playing at that little extra tempo, that speed,” he said. ”So there are steps I still need to take. I’m not kidding myself Justin Coleman Jersey , and with that comes the endurance, the `Oh, that’s how I’ve got to throw the out to T.Y. (Hilton) or that’s how it is over the middle to (Jack) Doyle.”’
The Colts are doing their part to keep Luck healthy.
They invested heavily in revamping the offensive line, drafting guard Quenton Nelson in the first round, guard Braden Smith in the second round, re-signing versatile veteran Jack Mewhort and adding veteran free agent Matt Slauson.
And Luck hopes that making the effort to avoid preventable hits keeps his comeback on track, too.
”I think I’d be a bit of a fool not to (change),” he said. ”I have to learn how to protect myself and how to protect the team.”
Notes: Safeties Clayton Geathers and Malik Hooker and guard Jeremy Vujnovich – all starters last season – have been placed on the physically unable to perform list. Geathers had offseason knee surgery, Hooker tore the anterior and medial collateral ligaments in October and Vujnovich pulled his calf while working out on his own this summer. … Running back Robert Turbin said he ”let his teammates down” by violating the NFL’s policy on performance-enhancers. He will miss the first four regular-season games. … The Colts signed safety Shamarko Thomas and waived cornerback Juante Baldwin on Wednesday. The 5-foot-9, 205-pound Thomas has played 60 games with the Buffalo Bills and Pittsburgh Steelers since 2013. Baldwin was an undrafted rookie.
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