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Drew Brees New Orleans Saints teammates are coming out in unison to denounce his recent comments about anthem protests.
On Wednesday morning, Brees spoke with Yahoo Finance and said that he views players who kneel during the anthem to protest police brutality as being disrespectful to the flag.
Highlight: @readdanwrite asks @drewbrees what the star NFL quarterback thinks about "players kneeling again when the NFL season starts."@drewbrees: “I will never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of America or our country.”
Full exchange: pic.twitter.com/MpCkFyOMed
— Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) June 3, 2020
Several of Brees’ teammates have come forward on social media to react to his comments.
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— Alvin Kamara (@A_kamara6) June 3, 2020
Smh.. Ignorant
— Emmanuel Sanders (@ESanders_10) June 3, 2020
He don’t know no better.
— Michael Thomas (@Cantguardmike) June 3, 2020
https://twitter.com/Cantguardmike/status/1268224561008574465
Malcolm Jenkins, who recently signed with the Saints, posted a long video message directed at Brees and said the QB should “shut the fuck up” instead of denouncing how people should protest police brutality.
“You’re somebody who I had a great deal of respect for, but sometimes, you should shut the f–k up.”
Malcolm Jenkins posts since-deleted video after Drew Brees’ comments about kneeling during the anthem pic.twitter.com/E2aWIlKWrI
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) June 3, 2020