Demario Davis
For Ravens in the Players Coalition, helping the city starts with listening and learning
Among the three of them, they cover the career arc of an NFL player. Tight end Benjamin Watson has played 14 NFL seasons. A six-year veteran, defensive tackle Brandon Williams believes he’s just entering his prime. Outside linebacker Matthew Judon’s first two seasons with the Ravens hint at a long and productive career.
Seated this week in the front row of a conference room in a downtown Baltimore law office, nine floors above where the snow accumulated on city streets, the three men shared a common interest. They listened intently as educators, activists and civil rights attorneys engaged them in conversation about social issues facing the city that the players currently call...
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Jets QB Josh McCown wants to keep the focus on the work players are doing and not the anthem
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NFL players, coaches grapple with new anthem policy
Seahawks
coach
Pete Carroll
wanted to be talking about football matters — Seattle's recommitment to the run game, the addition of two new coordinators, almost anything to do with what happens between the lines.
Instead, the league's oldest coach...
Seahawks' Baldwin says NFL "really missed it" with policy
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, as players began to process the new mandate from the league's owners.
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NFL players grapple with new anthem policy: 'I think they missed it on that one'
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