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SportsBruce Arians: Buccaneers Are
Former Ravens
Michael Jordan, Jordan
Planning To Use Tight End-Heavy Formations
To Racial Equality And
Bruce Arians is plan- ning to make use of the team’s surplus of tight ends.
Arians spoke with The Athletic’s Greg Auman for an interview and shared that the team plans to run tight end-heavy formations on of- fense this year.
“We’ve always been a huge 12-personnel team, ever since Pittsburgh,” Ari- ans said, via Auman. “That’s our base offense. If those are the best matchups, then that’s where we’re headed. Each week is finding out the best matchups. I love ’13’ and love three tight ends out there. We have a pack- age, and if you don’t know how to stop it, it can hurt you.”
“12” personnel refers to a formation that includes one running back and two tight ends. “13” personnel is a for- mation of one running back and three tight ends. The most commonly used forma- tion in the NFL these days is “11” personnel, which is one
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running back and one tight end, with three receivers on the field. That is what Tampa Bay used most often last sea- son.
The Bucs already had Cameron Brate and O.J. Howard, and then they ac- quired Rob Gronkowski in a trade with New England, giving them three capable tight ends.
Arians notoriously has not run offenses that favor tight ends, but with Tom Brady at quarterback, things may be different this year.
ED REED
Former Baltimore Ravens safety and Pro Football Hall of Famer Ed Reed took to Twit- ter recently to respond to New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees saying he still op- poses players kneeling during the national anthem. The Ravens safety recorded a video discussing the comments in which he called the Saints quar- terback a “sucka” because he was trying to keep himself from using profanity in his response.
Reed continued on to say that he doesn’t really have any other words for Brees other than that. He then said that for any Saints fans who still like Brees “just because they want to win games, y’all right with him.”
Brees 'Received Death Threats' Over Flag Comments
DREW AND BRITTANY BREES
Drew Brees’ comments about the American flag and na- tional anthem provoked a firestorm of controversy last week, and a wave of responses that clearly unsettled his family.
Brees’ wife Brittany posted her own apology for her husband’s comments on Sun- day, remarking that “we are the problem” for thinking they had been doing enough to combat racism or injustice. From the Brees Dream Foundation’s In- stagram account, she also re- vealed that her family had received death threats in the wake of Drew’s original com- ments.
Things have certainly changed since Brees’ initial statement. Not only has he apologized, but he even re- sponded to President Trump’s critical comments about his initial apology.
Amid the global outpour- ing of support for the Black Lives Matter movement, Michael Jordan and Jor- dan Brand are pledging $100 million over the next 10 years to nationwide organizations "dedicated to ensuring racial equality, social justice and greater access to education."
"Black lives matter. This isn't a controversial state- ment," read a joint statement from Jordan and his com- pany, which is a subsidiary of Nike. "Until the ingrained racism that allows our coun- try's institutions to fail is completely eradicated, we will remain committed to protecting and improving the lives of Black people."
Specifically, Jordan
MICHAEL JORDAN
Brand will increase its work in communities across the United States to provide ac- cess to education and oppor- tunities for future generations, while also tak- ing a more active role in sup- porting organizations that work to effect policy change in local government.
Safety Ed Reed Responds To Drew Brees’ Comments
Brand Pledge $100M
Education Initiatives
Spurs Coach Gregg
Popovich Says It's Up
To White People To
Call Out Racism
San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said the "country is in trouble" and that he is "embarrassed as a white person" to know that George Floyd could die in such a horrific way as a police officer with a knee on Floyd's neck went about his job in such a "nonchalant ... casual" manner.
"In a strange, counterin- tuitive sort of way, the best teaching moment of this re- cent tragedy, I think, was the look on the officer's face," Popovich said in an emo- tional video released by the Spurs as part of their #SpursVoices series on social media. "For white people to see how nonchalant, how ca- sual, just how everyday- going-about-his job, so much so that he could just put his left hand in his pocket, wrig- gle his knee around a little bit
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to teach this person some sort of a lesson -- and that it was his right and his duty to do it, in his mind.
"I don't know. ... I think I'm just embarrassed as a white person to know that that can happen. To actually watch a lynching. We've all seen books, and you look in the books and you see black people hanging off of trees. And you ... are amazed. But we just saw it again. I never thought I'd see that, with my own eyes, in real time."
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