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Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive lineman Gerald McCoy, speaking on Adam Schefter's Know Them From Adam podcast, said he thinks Sterling Shepard Womens Jersey there might "be an uproar" if NFL players are forced to stand for the national anthem.

"I don't think guys are gonna like it," McCoy said. "I think it's gonna be an uproar if that is to happen because you're basically taking away a constitutional right to freedom of speech. If guys wanna have a, I guess you would call it a peaceful protest, I don't think it's right to take that away."

In San Francisco, 49ers safety Eric Reid, the team's players' union representative, said he didn't believe the league's owners could unilaterally make such a declaration without negotiating it Andy Janovich Womens Jersey with the NFLPA.

"As far as I know, that would have to be something that is collectively bargained on," Reid said. "I'm not sure if they can do that, but I guess we'll find out soon. We'll see."

If that did happen, Reid said his conversations with team CEO Jed York have led him to believe that he and his teammates will continue to have the freedom to do what they http://www.officialauthenticsaintstore.com/womens_john_phillips_jersey choose during the national anthem.

"Well, I've talked to Jed, and he's expressed very clearly that he wants to support us, that he's not going to force us to do anything," Reid said. "So, speaking for our team, that's what he's told me explicitly."

Reid and York have been having discussions about demonstrations taking place during the national anthem for more than a year. Reid was the first player to join Kaepernick http://www.patriotsofficialsprostore.com/Jacoby-Brissett-Jersey in kneeling during the national anthem in protest of racial inequality and police brutality in the countryReid knelt alongside Kaepernick and linebacker Eli Harold for all of the 2016 season and then resumed the practice after the team's third preseason game this year in Minnesota after the racially charged events that took place in Charlottesville, VirginiaAfter Trump's criticism of NFL player protests on Sept. 22 and the days that followed, most NFL teams released statements in response and attempted various shows of "unity" before or during the national anthem of that week's games.

York has backed the 49ers since Kaepernick's protest first became public knowledge. He matched Kaepernick's $1 million donation to local communities in need, and in a statement that came after Trump's comments last month, he referred to the president's comments as "callous and offensive."

Reid noted a change in tone from the NFL on protests during the national anthem after the various displays of unity.

"I was hoping that it wasn't, but I did sense that," Reid said. "They said that it was going to be a one-week thing when they did it, so yeah, I expected it."

ESPN's Jeff Legwold and The Associated Press contributed to this report

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