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The morning began as most mornings do with the Detroit Lions. Head coach Matt Patricia stood before the players and opened up the floor for discu sion about anything on the guys' minds. Within minutes, it was obvious that this was not a morning like most other mornings. Football had taken a backseat to life.On Sunday night, Jacob Blake, an unarmed Black man, in the back by a Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer as he leaned into his SUV while his three children sat in the vehicle. went viral on Garrison Mathews Jersey Monday, and by Tuesday morning, as the Lions gathered for practice.When Patricia opened the floor, an intense discu sion ensued about police brutality against people of color. The team had had the same discu sion during the offseason, but that was virtually. On Tuesday, they could see each other in person. They could feel the emotion. The situation was more real. More raw.Patricia realized this and . The players then gathered in front of the training facility and flanked both sides of a large white board Jerian Grant Jersey on which their feelings were printed in blue block letters: "We got together as a team and felt that this was something that just can't be talked about anymore NBA Washington Wizards Jeresy without being recognized," guard Oday Aboushi told me later in the day by phone. "It was something that really shook a lot of guys. It's a fear that a lot of guys live with every day, a lot of my teammates live with every day who are Black. It's something where a simple drive to work can be dangerous for some guys on my team."At the end of the day, I don't deal with that same type of thought proce s, I don't deal with that same kind of injustice, but these guys truly live it. For families to live that, and for my teammates to have that as a reality for them, is really heart-crushing and it's something that, at the end of the day, everybody on the team should really identify with -- the Johnathan Williams Jersey amount of hurt and injustice that is right there."I've seen a lot and heard a lot during my nearly three decades covering the NFL, and seeing the picture of the Lions players in front of the building, next to that white board, gave me goosebumps. Blake is Troy Brown Jersey not a member of their nuclear family, and yet, it was as if he were one of them. They wanted to take up his cause because they felt it was their cause. Black or white, younger or older, urban or suburban, established or on the bubble -- it didn't matter. They were one.