Aaron Rodgers never mentioned Drew Brees by name, but his most recent Instagram post appears to respond to his earlier comments.
The Green Bay Packers quarterback showed his support for protests in an Instagram post on Wednesday.
“A few years ago we were criticized for locking arms in solidarity before the game. It has NEVER been about an anthem or a flag. Not then. Not now,” Rodgers wrote. “Listen with an open heart, let’s educate ourselves, and then turn word and thought into action.”
The caption accompanied a picture of the Packers players locking arms during the national anthem in 2017 in response to Donald Trump’s comments just the week before.
The president had referred to Colin Kaepernick and others who took a knee during the national anthem as a “son of a b—h.”
“I will never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of America or our country,” Brees, 41, told Yahoo. “Let me just tell you what I see or what I feel when the national anthem is played and when I look at the flag of the United States.”
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Rodgers has spoken out on many different controversial topics through his career, including social justice.
