NFL players are opting out of the 2020 NFL season
By the hour, now NT Eddie Goldman for the Bears. I've heard 6 Patriot players have opted out?? How the hell are they going to have a NFL season?
The answer is they aren't.
@"AGRforever" said: It sure seems to be a lot of linemen on both sides of the ball opting out. I'd guess they have the most interaction and exchanging of bodily fluids during a game?
:s
@"AGRforever" said: It sure seems to be a lot of linemen on both sides of the ball opting out. I'd guess they have the most interaction and exchanging of bodily fluids during a game?
If thats the case: Officials assigned to Packer games may want to sit out too...Or at least make sure Rodgers is tested
This is the absolute craziest year in sports that anyone will ever remember. I'll still watch and root hard as hell for our boys, but a part of me sees what's going on in baseball and thinks that it'll be an even bigger problem with football. It'll almost feel like a strike related season, with a bunch of no name guys playing by the end of the year. I hope that won't be the case, but I'm far from optimistic.
So how fast will the big name QBs etc opt out? Will it take one player getting good and sick or with all the OL calling it a year will they get scared and not risk covid AND/OR a career ending injury.
@"wiviking" said:@"AGRforever" said: It sure seems to be a lot of linemen on both sides of the ball opting out. I'd guess they have the most interaction and exchanging of bodily fluids during a game?If thats the case: Officials assigned to Packer games may want to sit out too...Or at least make sure Rodgers is tested
And Joe Buck with him.
@"PurpleCrush" said: This is the absolute craziest year in sports that anyone will ever remember. I'll still watch and root hard as hell for our boys, but a part of me sees what's going on in baseball and thinks that it'll be an even bigger problem with football. It'll almost feel like a strike related season, with a bunch of no name guys playing by the end of the year. I hope that won't be the case, but I'm far from optimistic.One encouraging note is that the NBA with its very restrictive bubble has tested 344 players with no positives two weeks in a row. There are ways to beat this if we're willing to accept them.
@"MaroonBells" said:This is why I dont believe a sustained NFL season is possible. There is no way they'll do something like the NBA is doing and Football is just that much more of a contact sport.@"PurpleCrush" said: This is the absolute craziest year in sports that anyone will ever remember. I'll still watch and root hard as hell for our boys, but a part of me sees what's going on in baseball and thinks that it'll be an even bigger problem with football. It'll almost feel like a strike related season, with a bunch of no name guys playing by the end of the year. I hope that won't be the case, but I'm far from optimistic. One encouraging note is that the NBA with its very restrictive bubble has tested 344 players with no positives two weeks in a row. There are ways to beat this if we're willing to accept them.
@"purplefaithful" said:The contact would be irrelevant if the players were in a bubble like the NBA and not allowed to see their families, friends, go to the grocery store, etc. I'm not sure I know what the rules are for NFL players when they leave the facility.@"MaroonBells" said:This is why I dont believe a sustained NFL season is possible. There is no way they'll do something like the NBA is doing and Football is just that much more of a contact sport.@"PurpleCrush" said: This is the absolute craziest year in sports that anyone will ever remember. I'll still watch and root hard as hell for our boys, but a part of me sees what's going on in baseball and thinks that it'll be an even bigger problem with football. It'll almost feel like a strike related season, with a bunch of no name guys playing by the end of the year. I hope that won't be the case, but I'm far from optimistic. One encouraging note is that the NBA with its very restrictive bubble has tested 344 players with no positives two weeks in a row. There are ways to beat this if we're willing to accept them.
@"purplefaithful" said:While in theory that may be true, I'd venture to guess that it would be extremely difficult to replicate a bubble for NFL teams simply due to the sheer size of these teams. There may be ways, but the cost and discipline needed to ensure safety may show just how difficult that'll be.@"MaroonBells" said:This is why I dont believe a sustained NFL season is possible. There is no way they'll do something like the NBA is doing and Football is just that much more of a contact sport.@"PurpleCrush" said: This is the absolute craziest year in sports that anyone will ever remember. I'll still watch and root hard as hell for our boys, but a part of me sees what's going on in baseball and thinks that it'll be an even bigger problem with football. It'll almost feel like a strike related season, with a bunch of no name guys playing by the end of the year. I hope that won't be the case, but I'm far from optimistic. One encouraging note is that the NBA with its very restrictive bubble has tested 344 players with no positives two weeks in a row. There are ways to beat this if we're willing to accept them.I hope I'm wrong though.
I'm reading where a lot of our regional D3 schools will/have shut-down all fall sports...The cost for maintaining the testing alone is just too prohibitive.
Costs wont be an issue for pro teams of course.
I agree that with NFL rosters being the size they are, 20 somethings being who they are, players going home to families etc...Sustainable seasson is going to be a lot to ask, maybe even wishful thinking.
No sex and no fans, but the beer is flowing fast in the NBA 'bubble'(CNN) — In 1987, the New York Giants won the Super Bowl and their quarterback Phil Simms uttered five immortal words: "I'm going to Disney World!"
Thus began a tradition, which still continues to this day: The Super Bowl MVP has always repeated the line and is subsequently feted with a parade at a Disney park of their choice.
For the next two-and-a-half months, the top basketball players will all be residing at Disney World in Orlando, Florida, and they haven't had to win anything to get there.
But it's not necessarily the treat you might think; in fact some -- like the Lakers' LeBron James and the Trail Blazers' Damian Lillard -- have compared it to a prison sentence, both using slang on social media, saying they were off 'to do a bid.'" Welcome to Disney World! Or, between now and the middle of October, "Make yourself comfortable in the NBA 'bubble!'"
"I think what the NBA has done ... in the environment we are all in is spectacularly brilliant," Brown told reporters. "I think it's elite -- I have zero complaints about anything that might prohibit us from doing our job."
And according to UFC boss Dana White, the 'bubble' approach is currently the only way forward for US sports."This isn't going to work outside of a bubble," White told CNN Sport earlier this week after the UFC staged a series of bouts on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi.
"You've got to have the bubble, you have to put people in lockdown, people can't be sneaking out, people can't go home. You know, in Abu Dhabi, the people ... haven't seen their families in two months."
So far the NBA's approach looks to be working. On Wednesday, the National Basketball Association (NBA) and players' union announced that none of the 344 players tested since July 20 had tested positive for the coronavirus.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/30/sport/nba-bubble-disney-world-florida-spt-intl/index.html
@"purplefaithful" said:No, for sure. I don't know what their "off-work" policy even is but whatever it is it's probably not going to work, considering the amount of players we're talking about, and the fact that most of them are young, wealthy, single and, well, let's just admit it, horny.@"MaroonBells" said:This is why I dont believe a sustained NFL season is possible. There is no way they'll do something like the NBA is doing and Football is just that much more of a contact sport.@"PurpleCrush" said: This is the absolute craziest year in sports that anyone will ever remember. I'll still watch and root hard as hell for our boys, but a part of me sees what's going on in baseball and thinks that it'll be an even bigger problem with football. It'll almost feel like a strike related season, with a bunch of no name guys playing by the end of the year. I hope that won't be the case, but I'm far from optimistic. One encouraging note is that the NBA with its very restrictive bubble has tested 344 players with no positives two weeks in a row. There are ways to beat this if we're willing to accept them.I guess I better start liking basketball again. What team is Larry Bird on these days?
I got the Bomba Squad for now, but baseball doesnt stir anywhere near the same passion in me football does. I really love me some NFL and SEC football.
I literally cant watch more that 10 minutes of the way the NBA game is played today. Used to love the game back in the days of Showtime etc.
I know, I know...
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