1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,560 Speaker 1: What was your reaction your emotions when you saw the 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:08,600 Speaker 1: shooting video there of Jacob Blake. Um. And going forward, 3 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 1: do you think the NFL or NFL teams, I should say, 4 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 1: would do something like in the NBA teams did last 5 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:16,799 Speaker 1: night the box and say you know we're not gonna 6 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:19,159 Speaker 1: play just a two part of there and thanks to 7 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:23,119 Speaker 1: your time. Um. Well yeah, well first my thoughts and prayers, 8 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 1: uh go to take the Blake family. Um and on 9 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 1: a video. You know, words really can game describe how 10 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:36,479 Speaker 1: you feel. Um, it makes you sick, especially you know 11 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: being a black man. And um you know just how 12 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 1: I know my parents raised me. Uh and you know, 13 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 1: just when you see those situations happening and continue to happen. Um. 14 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 1: Like I said, words, words really can't describe. But going 15 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:53,280 Speaker 1: on with what the NBA did, uh, you know it 16 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 1: definitely commend m for doing that. Uh you know the 17 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 1: w NBA ladies, the ladies there too. Um. You know 18 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 1: commending first ended up using a platform and using a voice. 19 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:06,560 Speaker 1: But for us to say for the Giants and NFL, UM, 20 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:09,479 Speaker 1: you know that's the stuff that's discussions going on. And um, 21 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:11,679 Speaker 1: you know we've been given an opportunity with our our 22 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:13,400 Speaker 1: leadership group and to be able to talk to the 23 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:15,960 Speaker 1: team and um, you know, try to figure out the 24 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:18,039 Speaker 1: things we can do to try to try to help. 25 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 1: And saw the video you retweeted kind of bringing awareness 26 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 1: to the ongoing hypocrisy and racial injustice and the difference 27 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:30,400 Speaker 1: in these situations. How emotional does this make you? And 28 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 1: you know, obviously this is one of many different incidents 29 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 1: that we have to watch and that these people have 30 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: to experience. I mean, how just emotional are you on 31 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 1: a daily basis seeing this and knowing you have this 32 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:46,119 Speaker 1: platform and kind of tossing it around in your mind 33 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:48,320 Speaker 1: of what you are going to do and how you're 34 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 1: going to use that platform. Yeah, it's it's just sad. Um. 35 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 1: You know if you look at it like worked out 36 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 1: my brother, Um, Um, I know my father went through 37 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 1: a similar situation, um when I was in college. And uh, 38 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 1: and that that little situation right there, you can lose 39 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:11,000 Speaker 1: someone that you really care about. Um. And I think 40 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:12,800 Speaker 1: when you look at it, you can't look at it 41 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,400 Speaker 1: as it's it's just always Jacob Blake, I said, I 42 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 1: know you didn't pass away, um, Uh, but you can't 43 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 1: look at you gotta be like putting yourself. What if 44 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:21,919 Speaker 1: I was in that situation? UM, what if it was 45 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 1: your brother work because work chef? What was gold and 46 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:28,079 Speaker 1: all those guys. Um. So that's kind of the way 47 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:30,919 Speaker 1: I kind of look at it, UM. And then how 48 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 1: it makes me think and makes me feel. UM. You 49 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 1: know I understand that God put me a position to 50 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: be able to have a platform, um, and to be 51 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 1: able to use my voice. UM. And you know I've 52 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 1: been big on uh you know, and knowing my history 53 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:46,519 Speaker 1: and especially with the athletes, UM and Bill Russell's the 54 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 1: world and um, you know Colin captains in the world, 55 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 1: how they were able to handle those situations use her voice, 56 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:54,640 Speaker 1: And it's just it's creates creates a conversation that you 57 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 1: have to have for yourself. UM. What can you do? Um? 58 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 1: What can you do? And uh, you know that's just 59 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 1: a start. You gotta sparked those conversations and then uh 60 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 1: take action, find ways you can do UM. And that's 61 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 1: what we're trying to do with our team. And you 62 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:09,960 Speaker 1: know when we could take you to find the right 63 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:11,839 Speaker 1: things to do, we can tinue to do it. I'm 64 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:15,600 Speaker 1: wondering if you can either, UM, what you just said 65 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 1: about your dad's situation or if you have anything you 66 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 1: can care about, a situation you might have been in 67 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 1: where you felt the effect of racism or uncomfortable around police, 68 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:27,400 Speaker 1: maybe when you were younger, before you were at celebrity. 69 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 1: Uh kind of kind of got a little bit of question. Um, 70 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 1: but I think I said some of my father. My 71 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 1: father was kind of just mishandled by police officers. Um. 72 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 1: It was a situation when I was in college. Uh. 73 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 1: And I remember, um, you know that phone call that 74 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:48,720 Speaker 1: I got from my parents, um for my mom, Uh 75 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 1: that you know, my dad was basically mishandled in mystrey 76 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 1: the wrong. Um. And I mean they thought at the 77 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 1: time they thought my dad was wrong, but we kind 78 00:03:57,240 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 1: of went through it and kind of find out my 79 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 1: dad was right. And what you'll say, I knew. But 80 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:02,520 Speaker 1: in that moment when I got that phone call, will 81 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 1: never forget. I was walking to uh the last building 82 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 1: back in Penn State. Uh, and my mom called me, 83 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 1: and my mom was really worried concerned. Uh. You know 84 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:15,200 Speaker 1: my dad had an archetition and guy like taste hard 85 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:17,760 Speaker 1: and stuff like that. But um that I remember how 86 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:20,240 Speaker 1: I felt in that moment, and it hurt me. It 87 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 1: hurt me. So that's why, you know, every single day 88 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 1: I try to go out and work and UM, you know, 89 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 1: try to push myself and try to uh you know, 90 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 1: go out there and show my workout, to show my 91 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 1: talent um, and you know, just trying to be inspiration 92 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:36,200 Speaker 1: for it for others. And UM, I hopefully I continue. 93 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 1: Couldn't do that throughout my plan. They take one. Obviously, 94 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:41,800 Speaker 1: a bunch of teams didn't practice that you guys have practice, 95 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 1: just curious your thoughts on you know, you know why 96 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 1: it was a good idea for you guys to practice. UM. Yeah, 97 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 1: so a lot of teams UM cancel practice. Uh. You know, 98 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 1: we we had that conversation, UM, and we felt that 99 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 1: you know, uh, we want to be able to continue 100 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:00,599 Speaker 1: go out there and practice if we were all in 101 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 1: the right minds and the right and right mindspace. And 102 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 1: I wish we all agree that we were. UM. And 103 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:07,800 Speaker 1: then uh, you know, obviously we're going to where we've 104 00:05:07,839 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 1: been talking. We're gonna come up with something that we 105 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:12,800 Speaker 1: want to be able to do UM and hopefully it 106 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:14,279 Speaker 1: seems like a lot of this is kind of put 107 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:16,479 Speaker 1: in the player's hands to sort of drive the conversation 108 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:19,040 Speaker 1: and what is Joe's role ben in this city kind 109 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:21,800 Speaker 1: of letting you guys sort of drive it or yeah, 110 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:24,520 Speaker 1: I would say I would say he is um, you know, 111 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:27,640 Speaker 1: it's it's it's always uh, you know, obviously is led 112 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:30,160 Speaker 1: by the coaches, but as always a player driven team, 113 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:32,840 Speaker 1: and that's the team that would be great. And obviously 114 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:35,480 Speaker 1: there's a you know, a situation that's going on, a 115 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 1: world that needs to be fixed, and um that's not 116 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:41,160 Speaker 1: going to just be solved in one day. So we 117 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 1: try to find ways that how we can act our 118 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 1: community and uh, you know, do things where we start 119 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 1: doing our community and challenge other teams um to do 120 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 1: in their community so we can spark a change. And 121 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 1: coach and coach Judge's been doing a really a really 122 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:57,920 Speaker 1: great job and um all the coach has been doing 123 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 1: a really great job hearing us, a listening out and 124 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:02,359 Speaker 1: being on board with us. I think one when you 125 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:04,600 Speaker 1: guys made that video in the offseason, there was a 126 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 1: lot of collaboration throughout the league. Has has there been 127 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 1: any any change of communication among the top players in 128 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 1: the league so far on how the what the reaction 129 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:16,640 Speaker 1: is going to be right now? Or is it pretty 130 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 1: much team by team. I think it's really right now, 131 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 1: team by team. UM, I think you know what the 132 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:27,280 Speaker 1: bee that we did, um, you know sparked the conversation. UM, 133 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 1: you know show that uh you know kind of challenge NFL. 134 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 1: You know that we have a platform as players and UH, 135 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:37,720 Speaker 1: we would love you guys to be honest and uh 136 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 1: you know, obviously we we can't go out there and 137 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:42,919 Speaker 1: and be the one to put them in handcuffs and 138 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 1: do that the third, but we can use our platform 139 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:46,839 Speaker 1: and we can you know, we got the NFL use 140 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:49,480 Speaker 1: the platform too, and just continue to raise awareness and 141 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:53,240 Speaker 1: continue to try to have a great impact in our community. UM. 142 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:55,960 Speaker 1: So we spark change in the future. And I know 143 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:57,920 Speaker 1: one of the reasons why you guys wanted to continue 144 00:06:57,960 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 1: to practice is to give the younger guys a chance, 145 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:02,719 Speaker 1: uh to make a team to get as many reps 146 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 1: as possible. UM. Once the once the rosters are set 147 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:08,440 Speaker 1: in the regular season comes around, though, can can you 148 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 1: foresee a situation where the either one team or individual 149 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 1: teams or even maybe even the whole league besides not 150 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:18,240 Speaker 1: to play one weekend? You know, I can't really just 151 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 1: go and speak on up a half of the whole league. UM. 152 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 1: But you know, I mean for us, that's something that 153 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:27,000 Speaker 1: we're going to we're gonna talk about within our within 154 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:30,040 Speaker 1: our groups, within our team, and UM, you know we's 155 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 1: talked about the players, uh and meetings and players, meetings, 156 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:35,520 Speaker 1: stays and players. My question is kind of simple. A 157 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:38,840 Speaker 1: lot of people talk about the leadership council. Is that 158 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 1: a group of players that Joe picked? Or is that 159 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 1: a group of players you all picked? Or how is 160 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:50,320 Speaker 1: that assembled? That's a good question. I guess you could say, Um, 161 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:52,120 Speaker 1: I can't speak for coach j others. I can't say 162 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 1: he directly picked them, but I kind of started to zoom, 163 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:59,320 Speaker 1: you know, everything going on the group of players that 164 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:01,760 Speaker 1: kind of just kind of all got together, um and 165 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 1: started talking about things we can do. UM. And I 166 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 1: guess that's how I kind of started. Is it like 167 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 1: a group of like five ten or I mean to 168 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:15,239 Speaker 1: be honest, it may say it sounds like a leadership group, 169 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 1: but uh, it's safe. There is ten twelve of us. UM. 170 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:20,960 Speaker 1: Every time we go and we make decisions, it's the 171 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 1: whole team. We're going. We're talking in front the whole team. UM. 172 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 1: And because you know, obviously, if you want to revert 173 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:28,520 Speaker 1: it not just what's going on as well, but just 174 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 1: obviously in our sport too. It's gonna take a team 175 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:33,040 Speaker 1: effort to get the job done. Um. And it's gonna 176 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: take a team effort for us to have changed and 177 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:37,960 Speaker 1: the spar change in our community. Um. And that's where 178 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 1: we're doing