GREEN BAY — Christian Kirksey’s comparison could not have been more apt.
The Green Bay Packers veteran inside linebacker returned to the practice field Friday morning — along with his 79 teammates — a day after they had spent more than four hours in meetings discussing social injustice, police brutality and race relations in the wake of the police-involved shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake, in Kenosha.
The practice had not been particularly crisp — coach Matt LaFleur acknowledged as much — and Kirksey himself admitted his own performance during the session, which had been moved inside the Don Hutson Center because of rain, had been substandard.