8 Saints test positive for Covid (coaches and player)

[Zod]

5 minutes ago, 4Corners said:

This game is going to be cancelled. Maybe there is some sort of movement to MNF since the team is vaccinated. 

They don't do that this year. This year's teams forfeit. The NFL is done with scheduling nightmares.

[mrcompletely11]

4 minutes ago, joemac said:

LOL no its not.  1 player tested positive.  Settle down. 

I dont think you understand how this works........

[joemac]

3 minutes ago, 4Corners said:

Contact tracing homie 

Yeah, but if they don't test positive there is no issue.  Its not 18 months ago.  You don't have to quarantine for 14 days just because you've been in contact with someone who happened to test positive. 

[USDepartmentOfSavagery]

Yeah nah dawg. I finally moved back to NC after 12 years of wasting my life away in the military. I bought tickets for this game and they better not forfeit this poo. 

[joemac]

Just now, mrcompletely11 said:

I dont think you understand how this works........

What don't I understand?

[4Corners]

17 minutes ago, CanePantherHornet said:

Any time something like this happens and it should work extremely in our favor, we end up getting destroyed.

[Actionman0z]

43 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

The bait is in the water and the hammer is in hand. Just over here warming up my arm like

Like Mac Jones?

[GRWatcher]

45 minutes ago, NAS said:

I don't want any bad forfeit karma.  Hope they can play

You also don't want COVID passed from team to team. 

They bussed not only the team but the families to Jacksonville. That meant also putting them up in hotels, rentals, etc. In Florida. All of that increases the odds for positive COVID tests.

[4Corners]

11 minutes ago, Zod said:

They don't do that this year. This year's teams forfeit. The NFL is done with scheduling nightmares.

I know they said they were gonna be stricter but u really think there is zero chance the game is pushed back 

[BlitzMonster]

It all depends on how many coaches and (most important) players are positive for COVID.  A game can go on without coaches (or maybe with remote coaches using headsets) but if enough players are exposed, the game will get shut down.  Only the NFL knows what the number is to have a forfeit. 

The team was displaced due to the hurricane and is currently practicing in Texas.  First game in FLA.  So two COVID hotspots.  

 

[AsylumGuido]

17 minutes ago, joemac said:

LOL no its not.  1 player tested positive.  Settle down. 

That one player is on the IR so wouldn't be eligible to play anyway.

[top dawg]

13 minutes ago, Zod said:

They don't do that this year. This year's teams forfeit. The NFL is done with scheduling nightmares.

I could be wrong, or they could have changed, but I thought it said if "they can t reschedule" or something to that effect.

[cookinbrak]

17 minutes ago, 4Corners said:

I know they said they were gonna be stricter but u really think there is zero chance the game is pushed back 

They can't. Our next game is Thursday.

[glenwo2]

I don't know where this forfeit talk is coming from BUT if it did happen, it would be both a good thing and a bad thing.

A good thing because it gives the Panthers a nice 2-0 start to the season plus it's one game less that CMC gets overused.

A bad thing because we still won't know how Sam would've improved from Week 1.   There will be constant speculation for another full week regarding that. 

 

Anyway, we'll see how the NFL handles this.