feel about this issue and we feel the same way about the importance of our flag and patriotism and i believe our players feel that way, they will stay to you and they stated publicly they are not doing this in any way to be disrespectful to the flag. >> trish: joining us now for reaction in houston, boyd cooper, the cochair of the 21 project and in los angeles, leo terrel, radioed talk show host and civil rights attorney. we will talk with you. roger goddell had an opportunity here. he had an opportunity to take a stand and say something meaningful and he didn't. why? >> i was going to say it was an incomplete pass. >> trish: i like the analogy. >> the american people have made it very clear that they do reject this behavior. it's disrespectful. it is up to roger goddell and the nfl to decide, are we going