How many more games until the NFL season is delayed/cancelled due to Coronavirus? *CATCH ALL NFL/COVID THREAD*

[Mr. Scot]

Not a good sign: Coaches frustrated with NFL handling of virus

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Per multiple sources with knowledge of the situation, there’s a growing belief in the coaching community that the league is more concerned about blaming teams for outbreaks than preventing outbreaks from happening.

As one source explained it to PFT, Monday’s league-wide conference call included a presentation from NFL chief medical officer Allen Sills. He emphasized during the call that infections are inevitable but that if teams follow all protocols the infections will be contained. When the possibility of a team-by-team or regional bubble was mentioned, Sills argued that the league’s protocols, if followed, are superior to a bubble.

Most would disagree with that. Although Sills pointed out that pathways to infection would be created via housekeeping, janitorial, maintenance, and food-service staff, neither the NBA nor the NHL had outbreaks under identical circumstances. Moreover, severely limiting the off-duty movement of all players, coaches, and essential personnel would avoid the reality that everyone who leaves the facility every night has a unique set of facts and circumstances that could result in exposure to the virus via airborne transmission, which seems to be the most prominent way to catch it.

Some suspect that the league isn’t pushing a bubble approach because: (1) the NFL Players Association refuses to agree to it; and (2) the NFL doesn’t want to have to make the concession needed to secure the union’s agreement. Although the NFLPA should want to put players in a bubble in order to avoid the loss of game checks resulting from games that are canceled and not rescheduled, the union quite possibly believes that the league will do whatever it has to do to get the games played.

Some coaches believe that, indeed, the league will do whatever it has to do to get the games played — to the point that health and safety of players and coaches is taking a backseat to playing the games. They think that the league wants to be able to say, in the event someone gets sick or worse, that the problem wasn’t the protocols but the failure of one or more teams to follow them.

Coaches still haven’t universally accepted that proposition. Like a defense that isn’t performing well, coaches wonder whether the current struggles result from bad players or a bad plan. The league, obviously, believes its plan is fine. Some coaches have real questions about that.

However it plays out, some coaches believe that the league’s knee-jerk reaction to any outbreak will be to blame the team, fine the team mercilessly, and at all times claim that the league has zero responsibility for the spread of the virus in any team facility or during any game.

[blackcat]

Too much money at stake to cancel season.  

[Happy Panther]

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[Devil Doc]

2 hours ago, CatTower said:

*insert Anecdote fallacy*

*insert political accusation*

None of these are fallacies nor political. It might be difference of opinions or subjective, but not a fallacy. 

 

[top dawg]

2 hours ago, PanthersNC1984 said:

It would be dumb to cancel the season. It’s time for everyone to wake up and realize that a vast, vast, VAST majority of people who get Covid are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms. The hysteria needs to end. Look at the MLB for example, the Marlins had like 25 people test positive a couple months ago and now they are in the playoffs. The St Louis Cardinals had about 20 people infected and they came back a week early and swept their series. 
 

im not saying Covid is a hoax or anything, I do think it exists obviously but it’s only truly dangerous for a very, VERY small percentage of people and according to the CDC themselves only 4 yes, just 4% of all the US deaths were a direct result of Covid. This isn’t the unknown, super deadly virus it was back in March. While yes 210k deaths is a lot on paper, that’s out of population of 330 million people. That literally equates to roughly 0.075% of the US population. 

bottom line is we can’t keep living like this. You can cancel schools, NFL, and close down business all you want but that’s not sustainable and all you are doing is delaying the inevitable and kicking the can down the road. NYC is a prime example, they are shutting down schools and business again for 2-4 weeks, why? What’s going to change a few weeks from now?! 

Protect those most vulnerable and at risk.

 

The United States has plenty of resources. The problem is that the rich are taking most of them. Things like UBI, universal healthcare and other things to actually help us weather this storm are affordable and realistic but for the fact that the oligarchs won't allow it to happen!

More than 200,000 people have died because people are too selfish to be inconvenced and make the sacrifices necessary to weather the storm. Games are games, but people losing lives are not a game, and the fact is that many many more would lose their lives and the economy and America would be even more fuged up because of even more lack of trust in the government to actually keep its citizens safe. Other governments have figured this poo out, while our government is still fuging up.

So while you so cavalierly talk about two hundred thousand lives like they mean nothing, acknowledge the fact that a sizable portion of those lives would have been saved but for the selfishness of the rich and the idiot sheep that follow them. 

[Brooklyn 3.0]

3 hours ago, PanthersNC1984 said:

It would be dumb to cancel the season. It’s time for everyone to wake up and realize that a vast, vast, VAST majority of people who get Covid are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms. The hysteria needs to end. Look at the MLB for example, the Marlins had like 25 people test positive a couple months ago and now they are in the playoffs. The St Louis Cardinals had about 20 people infected and they came back a week early and swept their series. 
 

im not saying Covid is a hoax or anything, I do think it exists obviously but it’s only truly dangerous for a very, VERY small percentage of people and according to the CDC themselves only 4 yes, just 4% of all the US deaths were a direct result of Covid. This isn’t the unknown, super deadly virus it was back in March. While yes 210k deaths is a lot on paper, that’s out of population of 330 million people. That literally equates to roughly 0.075% of the US population. 

bottom line is we can’t keep living like this. You can cancel schools, NFL, and close down business all you want but that’s not sustainable and all you are doing is delaying the inevitable and kicking the can down the road. NYC is a prime example, they are shutting down schools and business again for 2-4 weeks, why? What’s going to change a few weeks from now?! 

Protect those most vulnerable and at risk.

 

You STILL don't get it.

[Brooklyn 3.0]

Superbowl in March.

[ecu88]

You know, there is a thing called depth, practice squad, free agency, etc.

Just because a team's best player is out, does not mean the music stops.

You continue to play.

[Sean Payton's Vicodin]

Season is done before thanksgiving. They'll try and do a bubble playoff in like Febuary or some poo

[Anybodyhome]

3 hours ago, Pejorative Miscreant said:

Colleges are working thru it and have many more issues.

Sure. While colleges are collecting tuition from students taking classes remotely, the athletes are on campus, training, practicing and playing every weekend because that's where the real money is. 

[Anybodyhome]

47,000 combat deaths in Viet Nam in 20 years.

3,800 combat deaths in Iraq in 8 years.

33,000 combat deaths in Korea in 3 years.

53,000 combat deaths in World War 1 in 4 years.....

210,000 COVID-19 deaths in 7 months, don't sweat it. Don't be afraid, it's only a small percentage of the population. And besides, it's only old and frail people and people who have other health problems, so if you're not one of those- no worries! Party on, bros!

Now let me go back to reading my trusted news sources on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.....

GTFO

 

[TheSpecialJuan]

3 hours ago, hepcat said:

With more and more teams testing positive for the virus, how many more games do you think will be played until enough teams test positive that we won't be able to play any games or the NFL is forced to delay/cancel the season? Place your guesses here. 

1 more game? 5 more games? Think the NFL finishes the season this Spring? 

Winner gets pie from me!

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[Ornias]

3 hours ago, CatTower said:

*insert Anecdote fallacy*

*insert political accusation*

Insert someone incapable of doing the research himself and coming to his own conclusion.

“This week the CDC quietly updated the Covid number to admit that only 6% of all the 153,504 deaths recorded actually died from Covid That's 9,210 deaths The other 94% had 2-3 other serious illnesses & the overwhelming majority were of very advanced age".

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/01/fact-check-cdcs-data-covid-19-deaths-used-misleading-claims/5681686002/

[Captain Obvious]

Just hold on until 11-5 and covid will just be a memory