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GREEN BAY - When the Green Bay Packers convened for meetings one week after George Floyd's death, the team pushed their playbooks aside.
The offensive linemen, like every other position group, typically would have gone through a 45-minute offseason install over Zoom. Instead, the coaching staff gave players an opportunity within their virtual rooms to have conversations about police brutality and other forms of systemic racism.
It was a space for black players to share with white teammates their experiences as black men in America.
“There was no nervousness,” right guard Billy Turner told PackersNews.