AG, you can believe what you want. But my opinion is that he is no different than all the other people that are too afraid to stand up for what they believe in or what they feel is right for fear of being called racist. Being torn apart and scorned by the press and vilified on social media.

He was absolutely justified in believing what he believed and had the right to his own opinion about kneeling. His teammates turned on him because he didn’t agree with them.

I don’t blame Drew for doing the whole public apology. He was at the end of his career. He wanted his team to stay a team. But I don’t believe for a second that any of the BS he put out there was anything more than just back tracking because he was being unfairly vilified and backstabbed by teammates. He conformed to save what little bit of his career he had left. In essence, he caved. Just like everyone else does when they don’t agree with the mob. Eventually they just get right in line for fear of being unjustly crucified. There is nothing righteous about that. It’s terrifying.

But hey, you have the right to your opinion. That was just mine.

Did you read above what he said? What part of that was "raking him over the coals", Rugs? Thomas only made two comments in reference to the whole thing.

"He don’t know no better." <--- That's telling others that he believed Brees didn't understand the issue. That's actually defending Brees who had already received flack from others by that time including Malcolm Jenkins.

"We don’t care if you don’t agree and whoever else how about that." <--- This was not directed at Brees directly but at others who had commented on the subject. The lack of correct punctuation makes it hard to understand. To make it more clear, "We don’t care if you don’t agree, and whoever else (doesn't agree). How about that?"

To the best of my knowledge that's all that Thomas ever said that could be tied to Brees' interview answer. This was so blown out of proportion. I believe that's what Big_L was trying to point out earlier in this thread. People were blasting Thomas over things they thought he said without ever even knowing what he did, or more precisely didn't say.

I stand corrected! Drew Brees said "We still have a long way to go. But, I think what you do by standing there and showing respect to the flag with your hand over your heart, is it shows unity. It shows that we are all in this together, we can all do better and we are part of the solution."

Thomas did say "he don't know no better. And We don't care if you don't agree and whoever else agree about that."

Personally, I like to settle my differences in private. Away from the public eye and misconceptions. Let me clarify that I don't really care what Michael Thomas thinks. He doesn't care what Drew or I think. So, that's only fair.

The point is what anyone "felt" we won't ever know. We also won't know what was said in private, nor would we know the level of sincerity or any emotions behind any of the published comments. All we know is what was painted in the media.

Everyone's opinion should be respected, even though it is sometimes difficult when it doesn't align with our opinion. In today's environment we have lost the ability to say, we are just going to have to agree to disagree. We don't always agree with how the opinion is delivered but that is a totally different story.