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While the NFL continues discussions with the players' union regarding a national anthem policy Harold Landry Color Rush Jersey , players who demonstrate are emphasizing they are protesting social injustice, racial inequality and systematic oppression.
They are not against the country, military, flag or "The Star-Spangled Banner" itself.
President Donald Trump wants players to "find another way to protest" and contended "most of them are unable to define" what they're demonstrating against.
Players, however, have made clear their position numerous times.
"I think part of the problem is that when you continue the rhetoric that this is controversial or this is somehow a negative thing, people treat it as such," Philadelphia Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins said after resuming his demonstration before Thursday night's game. "But we've seen in other leagues when they've decided to amplify the voices of their players to also emphasize the importance of the issues that we're raising, and change the narrative away from the anthem, that not only is it more acceptable, the fan base gets educated on what we're talking about, and we can actually make some movement."
Jenkins stopped his demonstration last season after the NFL committed $90 million over the next seven years to social justice causes in a three-segment plan that involves league players.
Jenkins and a few teammates wore a T-shirt before the game that read on the front: "More than 60 percent of prison populations are people of color." On the back, it said: "Nearly 5,000 kids are in adult prisons and jails. #SchoolsNotPrisons."
The league and the NFLPA have yet to announce a policy for this season regarding demonstrations during the anthem after the league initially ordered everyone to stand on the sideline when the anthem is played, or remain in the locker room.
League spokesman Brian McCarthy declined comment Friday and reiterated his statement Thursday night, saying "constructive" discussions are ongoing with the union.
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Teammate Chris Long showed his support for Jenkins, as he did last season, by putting his arm around him.
"Malcolm is taking action and he can always sleep good at night knowing that he's not being a fraud," Long said. "He's (demonstrating) and he's working in the community, like a lot of these guys are doing."
On Friday night, Oakland Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch sat during the national anthem before the exhibition opener against the Detroit Lions. Lynch also sat for the anthem all of last season, but never gave a reason for his decision.
In Miami, Dolphins receivers Kenny Stills and Albert Wilson kneeled behind teammates lined up standing along the sideline. Defensive end Robert Quinn stood and raised his right fist.
"If you continue to misinterpret what we're doing, reach out to me, take a look at my website, take a look at my Twitter, all my social media platforms," Stills said. "I think you'll get a better idea of why we're doing what we're doing and maybe you can come to the other side and start supporting us."
Stills said "it would take a lot" for him to stop protesting.
"A good first step for us as a league would be acknowledging what they're doing to Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid," Stills said. "You can't say as a league you support the players and their protests and then blackball the players who initially started the protests. To come to the drawing board and talk about solutions, we need to start there as a league, and then we can start drawing up other solutions to some of these other problems."
Kaepernick, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback, began the movement in 2016 and was joined by teammate Eric Reid. Both are unemployed 鈥?Kaepernick didn't play last season Adidas Eric Staal Jersey , either 鈥?and have pending collusion grievances against the NFL.
Kaepernick tweeted support for Stills and Wilson.
Wilson said he feels more free to express himself with the Dolphins than he did with the Kansas City Chiefs, but didn't elaborate.
"You get a lot of backlash for doing this," Wilson said. "Nobody wants to bring the negative attention to themselves, but when you have a platform like this and you're able to speak on certain situations, you want to do that. We're not harming anybody."
Writing on Twitter from his New Jersey golf resort, Trump said Friday players "make a fortune doing what they love," and those who refuse to stand "proudly" for the anthem should be suspended without pay.
Quinn had a powerful message for critics.
"It's not a protest. It's an awareness," he said. "I think 'protest' segregates this country. The awareness we're trying to raise 鈥?this country preaches freedom and unity. That's all I'm trying to do. If you believe in something, no matter the consequences you stand by it. I want heaven here on Earth. I believe we preach too much negativity throughout this whole world. I think the message that needs to be spread is peace, love and happiness.
"Hearing the slander that we're protesting the flag, that's not it. It's not a protest. It's no disrespect to any servicemen or women out there. They salute with their hand over their heart, I hold my fist up. How can you look at that any different? That salute is just as meaningful to them as my fist in the air."
Three Seahawks players, Branden Jackson, Quinton Jefferson and Duane Brown, left the field following team introductions and before the start of the anthem Thursday night.
"I think there are a lot of people that are supportive of the players and then there are a couple of people that have been very vocal against it. Those people have power," Brown said. "We'll see what happens."
AP Sports Writers Steven Wine and When Geoff Swaim glances around the film room at his fellow tight ends with the Dallas Cowboys, he doesn't see Jason Witten anymore.
As for what's showing on the screen, Swaim can't help but see familiar No. 82 because the franchise leader in games was on the field nearly every snap for 15 years before his sudden retirement to go into broadcasting last month.
"Well Phillip Gaines Color Rush Jersey , it's hard to watch film and not have Witt in the film. You know what I mean?" Swaim said with a chuckle Wednesday after the final voluntary offseason practice before mandatory minicamp next week.
"I don't know what tape you can bring up of the Cowboys in any sort of relevant way that Witt's not on the field. It's always him. It's always him. It's always him. And it's that way for a reason."
Swaim is the team's oldest tight end at 24 with nine regular-season catches and 94 yards to show for his first three years in the league. That's nine catches and 94 yards more than any of the other four 鈥?and 1,143 catches and 12,354 yards fewer than Witten, the club leader in both.
The next-oldest tight end? Rico Gathers, the former Baylor basketball standout who hadn't played football in nearly a decade when the Cowboys drafted him two years ago. He's 24, but four months younger than Swaim.
Next is Blake Jarwin, a second-year player who got in one game last season after the Cowboys activated him from the practice squad. Rookie Dalton Schultz, a fourth-round pick in April, was 6 when the Cowboys drafted Witten in 2003. The fifth tight end is undrafted rookie David Wells.
"Everybody has to start a game at some point in time, or play a first play at some point in time," new tight ends coach Doug Nussmeier said. "I don't look at it as a negative."
The Cowboys had some experience besides Witten after last season, but James Hanna beat the 11-time Pro Bowl player to retirement by a couple of weeks. The 28-year-old Hanna had persistent knee issues.
The player most likely to do a double take was Swaim, a seventh-round pick out of Texas in 2015. In a matter of days, he went from understudy still building his resume to the only Dallas tight end with one.
"It was sort of overnight," Swaim said. "But again you have to adjust and move on. That's how everyone approached it, 'Wow, OK, here's what's in front of us now.' It doesn't do me any good to look in the past. It doesn't do me any good to go Chiefs Robert Golden Jersey , 'What's going on?'"
Gathers missed all of last season with a concussion after an impressive preseason that raised hopes about his development. It was a significant setback for someone with little football background who chose the NFL over the NBA because he thought it was his best shot at a pro career.
Now, though, Witten's retirement has left the position wide open for the 6-foot-8, 285-pound Gathers, who hasn't played in the regular season yet.
"There's really no major opportunity to really do anything of growth from as far as expecting to play, expecting to take snaps from him because he's not supposed to let that happen," Gather said. "It opens up windows for everybody to be able to come in and prove themselves."
Schultz, who played at Stanford, saw reports of Witten drawing interest from the networks the way longtime friend and teammate Tony Romo did a year earlier when the former Cowboys quarterback decided to retire rather than play for another team after losing his job to Dak Prescott.
It's only natural for draft prospects to ponder the idea of replacing a franchise icon such as Witten, who was days from turning 36 when he retired. It just doesn't get much past the pondering.
"It's all speculation, right?" Schultz said. "I think people try to do their best at like, hey, there's a potential fit. But in reality, you're going to go to whoever you're going to go and that's just how it's going to be."
Now the question is who says how it's going to be in the tight end room for the Cowboys. And if anyone says it's automatically Swaim, he would disagree. He has a new favorite word for how that leadership grows: organic.
"We're figuring things out together," Swaim said. "There's no need for me to be in there yelling at somebody who's a year younger than me. That doesn't make sense. That wouldn't be right."
Just as it doesn't seem right for him to glance around the room and not see Witten.
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