Backlash from Michael Thomas, among others, forces Drew Brees to clarify comments
 

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Here we go.

Re: Backlash from Michael Thomas, among others, forces Drew Brees to clarify comments
 

Emmanuel Sanders called him ignorant.

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You have a right to disrespect the flag. Just don't burn it! You have the right to burn the flag and I have the right to go to jail for whipping your ass!

I love my flag and have frequent discussions with my best friend who sees it as a symbol that politicians wrap themselves in. I see it as a representation of American values and the soldiers who fought to protect it. All Americans dead veterans caskets are draped with the American flag. If you don't like the flag but want the civil liberties it's protection has provided for all of us then do something positive and not divisive.

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I don't really know enough to comment on matters if I'm being honest.

What exactly did Brees say? Because fans on twitter are disowning him and setting fire to his Jersey etc.

Half way through the year and it needs a reset.

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He called Brees ignorant?
So now anything short of completely agreeing with rioting or kneeling automatically means you are a racist?
I don’t even recognize this country anymore.
For the record I respect players right to kneel but Thomas and Sanders are way off base and out of line.
People should be able to have opinions that differ than others without being labeled a racist.

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Welp, there goes my respect for Thomas and Sanders. Sigh... I'm ready for this world to end.

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On a side note, not linked to this George Floyd stuff. Michael Thomas is too active on twitter

Brandin Cooks was annoying. But Thomas just never knows when to shut up, he has to argue with everyone about everything.

I miss the Colston, Devery, Meachem and Moore days. No diva issues.

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I think the issue is that Brees didn’t address the matter at hand. Instead he just doubled down on his old stance about disrespecting the flag.

Re: Backlash from Michael Thomas, among others, forces Drew Brees to clarify comments
 

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PFT and Mike Florio are pandering clowns. Just like Peter King during the "Bounty Gate" sh1tshow.
Pompous, self-righteous media members are not to be trusted.

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I know Brees would never do it, but instead of throwing Thomas/Sanders open he should throw it not so open

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Wow ok.. stay classy

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I'm so tired of all this.

Re: Backlash from Michael Thomas, among others, forces Drew Brees to clarify comments
 

Thank God we have Demario Davis...

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Whole team is tearing apart.

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Yup. Might as well disband the whole thing. This spells the end of the Saints. It was a good run while it was happening.

Kill us all now!

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Woe is us!!


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What an aaaassshhhooollleeee. I am in disbelief at how "tone deaf" these dudes are about Drew's actual meaning and intent. This is gonna get real ugly and it might just blow up the team. These mf's need to all apologize to Drew for misrepresenting both his words and his character.

Unbelievable.

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Many Black people are an absolute joke. They have selective outrage. Theyre fine with murdering each other in droves in Baltimore. Theyre fine with killing babies with stray bullets, so fine with it that the police must beg, borrow, and steal to track down the killer of little babies. The greatest mistake our founding fathers made was ending the evil of slavery and not resolving the issue appropriately. They should have returned the slaves to Africa. Instead years of abuse continued after the ending of slavery. The treatment was little better. It should have been recognized that engaging in that evil would be impossible to recover from and they should have returned those people to their original home. This nation will never heal and it will never be what it should have been. I cannot wait, for the life of me, to leave. To rid my life of white liberals and many black Americans will be everything I dream it will be. This country is doomed, literally doomed. Not just the internal destruction caused by the bringing and owning of other humans, or the allowing of your enemy in under the guise of them being refugees, or the unlimited supply of illegal aliens, but the unending spending, spending, spending. The printing will catch up tk us. One day an economic downturn will hit and we won't be able to print without sever devaluation of the dollar. This recent lock down bull**** proving we are not free, we are owned by this government. The governors who seized assets of businesses who defied their order and opened, but have done nothing to stop the looting trash. This country may have been great, but she is garbage now.

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Not a shocker there. Jenkins is a loud mouth. None of Drew's comments were made rude. And here's MJ blasting him publicly. This is BS. If you're white and have a different opinion on something, its best to keep your mouth shut or you'll be crucified.

Welcome to America. What a joke.

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Oof....this probably won't end well unfortunately.

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Drew didn’t disrespect anyone. He stated what the flag meant to him (family, unity) and he would never be ok with people disrespecting it.

People burn the flag. People kneel. People raise their fists. You can do what you want but I don’t have to be OK with it. That’s my right as it is yours. But to castigate someone for their belief makes you the intolerant one.

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Too late! Dizzle has declared the Saints are finished for good.

Re: Backlash from Michael Thomas, among others, forces Drew Brees to clarify comments
 

Okay. Why does this not surprise me out of you.

:rolleyes:

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I am on Demario's wavelength, that we have bigger fish to fry just to try to keep our country out of full-blown civil disorder.

It's been a few years since the origin of the kneeling hoopla, and I'm coming to terms that this is very much a wedge issue like abortion. When you try to look at it objectively you actually do see pro's and con's on both fronts.

On one hand, the injustice is massive and it feels like we sure could use all the highly visible peaceful protests we can find. On the other hand, the kneeling vs standing is very distracting and takes away from the aspect of unity and turns the anthem time into a net-negative.

I think no one should compromise and we should just play through our disagreements. Set the example for our ineffective Congress that you can disagree and still focus and accomplish things.

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I said the team was tearing apart, as in players are calling out Drew for his views.

I never said we were done for good, as usual you spin someone's words to suit your own sarcastic agenda.

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A couple of young dudes not getting context is not "tearing the team apart". Why did you not simply say they were "calling him out for his views"?

Huh? I like a lot of your input (when you are actually around), but you seem to always go with that negative slant on things.

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Bravo! Couldn't agree more.

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Get help.

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Are you seeing something positive in this? Cause I sure as hell ain't. Dude, MT and MJ talking **** publicly about not only their teammate, QB and leader, but also about a guy that has shown nothing but class.

You've got a positive spin on that. Please...enlighten me.

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Agreed

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Exactly my point, people viewed as leaders on the team arguing with other leaders, and that's only the people that have spoken up, there will be some that have not publicly voiced their views.
This could cause a rift in the locker room.

Its not the fact that my views are negative, I just don't see a positive spin on this. The way a lot of athletes have responded to Drews comments, makes me think this could divide the team.

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Geez even Colston...

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Jesus Christ, thats pretty f’n rough

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Lance Moore just posted;

"Disappointed"

Cam Jordan also saying that Drew has denounced everything they were kneeling for with his comments.

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It's all about race now. Everything is. Drew's on his own. His friends, teammates, former teammates....they won't come to his defense, even though they know he wasn't being disrespectful or rude. His white friends won't because they don't want to be called racist. His black friends won't because they don't want to be called Uncle Tom's. What a sad sad country we live in. Its pathetic and un-American.

Tow the politically correct line or you're a bigot. A racist. Lol.

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I'm with Drew.
Most pro athletes are dumb as a stump. Their comments prove it.

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He can read any defense. Gotta read the room. Some say his teammates are going against him. Seems to me like he went against his teammates. I wanna be a fly on the wall in that locker room meeting.