During this training camp, Burrow’s teammates told everyone how he works as a cool veteran in the knee and the media documented his elite skills daily, from two-minute rides in team exercises with perfectly blown bombs to improvising in sand. -on-sand.
Well, it looks like they’ve got the whole package. He did not hesitate after that first meeting to tweet: “How can you hear the pain that Black people are going through and reject it as nothing. How can you hear the pain and respond with anything other than” I stand with you. “
“I really appreciate him taking the immediate stand that he did. Like you said. He’s a rookie and a white guy,” Hopkins said. “I personally feel like it seems to me clearly clear of right and wrong. I do not think it should be difficult to take a stand, but you see in our society that for some people it seems difficult to feel that they have something to do. lose and they can. But I appreciate that he immediately came in to take a stand and be immediately involved in everything. Not to take a back seat, but to be an active participant and leader. “
Several members of Taylor’s leadership group are also members of the Positive Community Impact Committee that formed property in June to decide how and where to spend the club’s $ 250,000 commitment in Greater Cincinnati on projects. ranging from education for diversity awareness to cultivating minority businesses. The players each ask how they can improve the communities in which they live and grew up.
After three separate meetings of the leadership committee on Thursday, two in the morning and one after the afternoon practice, players sought input from the entire locker room to form a plan in which they would involve the rest of the organization,
Green indicated that the Bengals did not feel that calling for practice would help their efforts to get something done.
“If we do not practice, we will go home and there will be no productive talks,” said CJ Uzomah, also a member of the leadership committee. “I think today was a good day. It was a productive day.
“We want to make sure we have a plan … A lot of players still beat us up who have thoughts about what we want to do. If you have something to say, this is a family, this is a fraternity. “Just go have an open dialogue. Go away. We want it to be for the whole organization, not just the players.”
The players are looking for support and one of the reasons Uzomah, also on the PCIC group, sounded optimistic on Thursday night, is that he felt it not only from guys like Burrow and Taylor, but from other coaches like coordinator Darrin Simmons of special teams .
“Darrin pulled us aside and asked us how we were doing, talking to us,” Uzomah said. “We appreciate that stuff so much. I think with him and, truly, everyone else, kids in this whole thing really feel at home. I can tell it’s an agreement with him. ‘Man, this is hard.'”
