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Kenny Stills – August 14, 2019 Download PDF version

Wednesday, August 14, 2019

WR Kenny Stills

(We understand that you had the opportunity to speak to Mr. Ross.) – “Yep.”

(Can I ask – from the story that published yesterday, it was an agree-to-disagree situation. Can you kind of elaborate on how you feel about that?) – “Right. It is what it is. I have my opinion, and he has his. I think that’s all it really was.”

(Do you think maybe this will – the whole situation – move forward and the noise surrounding all of this, mostly at the national level, maybe could go away? You may not want it to go away.) – “As far as – what do you mean?”

(Just that everybody’s talking about it and Stephen Ross and…) – “I think it’s important for people to understand that we can disagree on things and still move forward. A lot of the things that I’ve talked about are just on a basic level of being a human being, being respectful and really just caring about others and trying to draw the line in the sand when it comes to hate and divisiveness and inciting violence. So that’s where I’ve drawn the line, and other people – we’re trying to encourage other people to do the same.”

(A lot of people view what you’re doing in the right. When you’re out here, do you have the opportunity to – did some of the Buccaneers players even say something to you about this?) – “I mean I think guys see what’s been said. I think people just appreciate other guys speaking truth to power, and so that’s all I’ve been trying to do. Like I’ve said before, it’s not about creating any type of divisiveness. It’s just informing people on what’s going on. Sometimes I’ve got to be a messenger.”

(Do you feel Stephen Ross was receptive in any way to some of the things you expressed to him about why you felt the way you felt?) – “I can’t say. Like I said, our conversation was short. We agreed to disagree, and we both said that there weren’t any hard feelings, and our focus was on trying to win games this year.”

(Did Stephen Ross express to you that he preferred you didn’t tweet out anything?) – “No. I actually was the one that brought it up saying that – just likes (Head Coach Brian) Flores said – looking back at it in hindsight, that probably is the most professional thing to do. Would I have done it? Going back, probably not. But I agree with Flores, I agree with other people that it is probably the right thing to do.”

(Even if you did have a conversation and you tweeted about it, what do you think the result of that would’ve been?) – “Same thing. I’m still pointing out the contradiction, and I think that’s it at the end of the day.”

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