Behind the NFL's one-eighty on Black Lives Matter and what should come next

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🗓️ 10 June 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This podcast left off last Thursday evening on a sour note. Drew Brees had made disappointing comments conflating disrespect for the American flag with protests against systemic racism and police brutality. My, how things have changed. Since that last podcast:- Brees issued an apology and publicly called out Donald Trump for politicizing and distracting from the players' message of seeking equality.- A video was posted with Patrick Mahomes, Odell Beckham, Jr., Michael Thomas, Deandre Hopkins and other stars issuing a request for the league to recognize Black Lives Matter and apologize for mishandling the player protest movement of 2017.- Roger Goodell responded to each of those demands and publicly apologized, as requested, but did not mention Colin Kaepernick.Terez Paylor & Charles Robinson open this podcast discussing all those developments, the importance of Mahomes' involvement, how Goodell can redeem the Kaepernick situation and how all eyes will focus on Jerry Jones and the Cowboys as the NFL season and 2020 presidential election draws near.Shifting gears to the football field, they discuss the recent news that Minnesota RB Dalvin Cook intends to hold out until he reaches a new contract agreement with the Vikings. (32:45)Charles & Terez also discuss Todd Gurley passing his team physical with the Falcons and why the Atlanta offense should not be slept on in 2020. (40:15)Our experts wrap up the show debating if Marcus Mariota could take on a Taysom Hill type role with the Las Vegas Raiders and speculate. how penalties would be enforced on the proposed "4th & 15" rule that would eliminate the onside kick. (43:45)Stay up to date with the latest NFL news and coverage from Yahoo Sports on Twitter @YahooSportsNFL.Follow Charles @CharlesRobinsonFollow Terez @TerezPaylorTag your questions for the guys on Twitter with #YahooNFLPodcastCheck out the rest of the Yahoo Sports Podcast family at https://apple.co/2Abi8jk or at yahoosports.com/podcasts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:12.8	Yes, sir, yes sir. Welcome to the Yahoo Sports NFL Podcast podcast. I'm Yahoo Senior NFL Rider Torres-Paylor.
0:16.0	Here I'm a main man and fellow senior
0:17.5	you know fellow senior NFL writer Charles Robinson.
0:19.2	And Charles, have you enjoyed your turn as a Yahoo Sports politics writer for the last two weeks?
0:25.0	I'm uh, yeah, I saw I even got quoted in a CNN story yesterday.
0:31.0	That was a low light of my political reporting
0:35.4	career when I I managed to piss off Democrats and Republicans in one tweet and CNN's like this is our kind of
0:44.3	tweet we're gonna put this in a story this is somebody taking shots at everybody
0:50.6	yeah I got just bragging everybody just you know I was just bragging everybody.
0:53.0	Anytime Charles could just flag everybody.
0:55.0	He's in.
0:56.0	I'm an equal opportunist critic when it comes to politics.
1:00.0	Yeah, I think I am ready to hang it up. I think I'm good. I think I'm ready to return to, I'm getting on the flight and flying right back into sports.
1:12.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah, so.
1:14.0	How about the Atlanta Falcons and Todd Gurley?
1:17.0	Exactly, yeah.
1:18.0	Right back.
1:19.0	I don't know, Charles, I think the lion's secondary is going to be all right this year.
1:23.0	Who would have thought we've missed topics like that?
1:27.0	But look, when we do dive out of sports and to put, you know, politics and things that matters because they matter and I think
1:36.2	sometimes that's a good thing I think sometimes that is a good thing for us to
1:39.7	remember what really
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