Look at this:

Brees, in part:

“I will never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of America or our country. Let me just tell you what I see or what I feel when the national anthem is played and when I look at the flag of the United States. I envision my two grandfathers, who fought for this country during World War II, one in the Army and one in the Marine Corps. Both risking their lives to protect our country and to try to make our country and this world a better place. So every time I stand with my hand over my heart looking at that flag and singing the national anthem, that’s what I think about. And in many cases, that brings me to tears, thinking about all that has been sacrificed.

“Not just those in the military, but for that matter, those throughout the civil rights movements of the ‘60s, and all that has been endured by so many people up until this point. And is everything right with our country right now? No, it is not. We still have a long way to go. But I think what you do by standing there and showing respect to the flag with your hand over your heart, is it shows unity. It shows that we are all in this together, we can all do better and that we are all part of the solution.”

Yeah, look, it’s not about the flag or the military. We’ve been over this before.

Kaepernick, who has plenty of flaws and has hurt his own movement in the past, said on numerous occasions that the protest was to raise awareness of social injustice and treatment of minorities and was not intended as disrespect towards the armed forces. The reason he began kneeling is because a former green beret who played for the Seahawks suggested that he do that in lieu of sitting on the bench instead.

Anyway, Brees was criticized and/or subtweeted by his own teammates, Michael Thomas, Emmanuel Sanders, and Alvin Kamara, plus a number of other NBA and NFL players. Should be a pretty interesting meeting down in NOLA when training camp starts.

That’s all from me today.

Have a fantastic evening!