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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers were not among the teams to postponed their practices on Thursday following the shooting of Jacob Blake by police officers.
Before their schedule practice on Thursday, Buccaneers head coach Bruce Arians told the team that he believes every player has a responsibility to take action aiming for social change, but he doesn't think protesting is the most effective way to do it.
Article Continues Below“Your responsibility is to take action,” Arians said Thursday, via Eduardo A. Encina of the Tampa Bay Times. “I don’t know that protest is an action. I think each guy has a personal thing. I would beg them to take action, find a cause and either support it financially or do something to change the situation, because protesting doesn’t do crap in my opinion. I’ve been seeing it since 1968.”
During the meeting, Arians told the players that he remembers seeing the race riots that took to place in York, Pennsylvania, in 1968, when dozens of people were injured and two people were killed. However, he doesn't recall protesting doing anything.
On Thursday, several NFL teams, including the Green Bay Packers, New York Jets, and Los Angeles Chargers, canceled their practices to discuss and work on a plan for continued social justice reform efforts.
Nevertheless, despite not canceling their practice on Thursday, the Buccaneers still have a plan to take action aiming for social change. Arians said the team's social justice committee would be meeting soon to come up with ideas about what action to take for the future.
