NFL players: "I am George Floyd"; Saints hold team meeting | 6/5 #1

PFT Live with Mike Florio

Mike Florio

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🗓️ 5 June 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The NFL players released a powerful video supporting the Black Lives Matter movement; how will the league react to it? And as Drew Brees released multiple apologies yesterday, the Saints held a team meeting. Florio & Big Cat react and have advice on what Brees' next steps should be. More coaches are speaking up, as Brian Flores & Kyle Shanahan have released statements about the protests and minority hiring in the NFL. As Bruce Arians talks about how the Buccaneers will deploy their skill players, Florio & Big Cat name the best offensive "starting 5" in the NFL.

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0:00.0	Friday edition of Pro Football Talk Live NBCSN, Sky Sports.
0:09.2	Hello to our friends in the UK and in Ireland.
0:11.5	Hello to Big Cat, joining me for his usual Friday visit.
0:16.2	And Big Cat, the world has changed dramatically since the last time you were on.
0:20.7	And we've reacted to it
0:21.9	because the unrest throughout the United States of America has affected the sports world,
0:27.3	affected the NFL in significant ways.
0:29.8	We spent the entirety of yesterday's show focusing on those issues.
0:33.7	Today it will be a big part of the show, but we are going to pivot back toward football.
0:38.6	But we cannot, we cannot ignore what's happening in our world, in our nation, in the
0:44.2	National Football League, because there are many developments more than I expected when we
0:49.1	went off the air yesterday.
0:51.3	Yeah.
0:51.7	And it's, sorry, are we running a video here?
0:54.3	I might have screwed that up.
0:56.2	No, I was, no, I was saying hello to you.
0:58.2	All right.
0:59.1	Yeah, yeah, hello.
1:00.1	It has been, you know, a week where I think a lot of people are, you know, being
1:05.7	introspective, trying to listen a little bit more.
1:08.1	And I think the fact that we don't have sports and people can't say
1:12.1	stick to sports, which is usually what comes up when hard issues get discussed in the media
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