The Seahawks plan to follow through, someone finally gets it

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http://sports.yahoo.com/news/collaboration-best-thing-human-seahawks-044702766.html

 

This is what I have been saying. Talk is cheap, action is what is needed. Someone finally got it. Key excerpts from this article:

 

“Collaboration is the best thing a human being can do,” Bennett said. “There has to be dialogue. If people just focus on (players) taking a knee, then we can’t even get the dialogue started.”

To Bennett, Baldwin and others, their display Sunday was far less important than how they follow through on the attention that will inevitably result from it. Their coach, Pete Carroll, had invited the noted sociologist Harry Edwards to visit with his players about three weeks ago. (Carroll and Edwards also talked this past week.) The one thing Edwards said that made the biggest impression on the Seahawks was this: the difference between a mob and a movement is follow through. “If we’re going to sit here and talk and do these gestures and we don’t follow through then we’re just a mob,” Sherman says. “It’s not real. But if we get things rolling, then it’s a movement.”

Several Seahawks announced their plans on Saturday on social media. What they didn’t see is what Baldwin revealed afterward: that they planned to meet with Ed Murray, the Seattle mayor, and police chiefs across the state. That they had spoken to former teammate Nate Boyer, a Green Beret, so as not to disrespect the military on the anniversary of 9/11. That Carroll was on board, fully supportive of their efforts. Follow through, he reminded them.