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NFL 2020-2021 Season Superbowl LV: Tampa Bay Buccaneers, QB Tom Brady Champs!

Meanwhile the state of Tennessee has announced they’re fully opening back up
 
report I saw said they're not currently planning to move any games

I think that is going to depend on how this week plays out. If it's just those 3, and no one on Min tests positive, then they'll play it as is or maybe move it to Mon nite. If a bunch more Titans and Vikes gradually test positive, then it isn't fair to Pit & Hou to make them play a game against a team that may have more developing infected players. And with 4-5 staffers also testing positive, this is why the league is absolutely correct to be throwing out those $100K fines to coaches who aren't following protocol and wearing masks on the sideline. Another developing issue is the Raider players who broke protocol and maybe state law at that charity function. In addition to fining those players, the league should consider suspending them for a game to really lay down the law on breaking covid protocols.
 
Steelers v. Titans postponed. Will likely be played either Monday or Tuesday. Not sure how the Titans can be reasonably expected to prepare for a game on Monday or Tuesday if no one is allowed to even enter the practice facility until Saturday at the earliest.
 
Steelers v. Titans postponed. Will likely be played either Monday or Tuesday. Not sure how the Titans can be reasonably expected to prepare for a game on Monday or Tuesday if no one is allowed to even enter the practice facility until Saturday at the earliest.

Having a hard time feeling sorry for a team that might have their preparation time reduced for an upcoming game when it was their own fault that caused the situation....
 
Having a hard time feeling sorry for a team that might have their preparation time reduced for an upcoming game when it was their own fault that caused the situation....

Yep. Everybody has to be flexible nowadays anyway.
 
Having a hard time feeling sorry for a team that might have their preparation time reduced for an upcoming game when it was their own fault that caused the situation....

Do we know how the Titans caught it? Is there a report that they were partying? Under that theory, why didn't ND play WF without 19 of their players?
 
Do we know how the Titans caught it? Is there a report that they were partying? Under that theory, why didn't ND play WF without 19 of their players?

We're still wondering that. Feels like a concession we made or something we were told to do by the ACC.
 
Unless there is evidence that the Titans knowingly broke protocol, think its BS to claim that it's the Titans' "fault" that a segment of their organization is now positive. While taking the prescribed steps to avoid infection reduces the possibility, individuals can become infected without any "fault" of their own. They flew to MN last weekend; while unlikely, an asymptomatic carrier on the flight crew could have transmitted the virus.
 
NFL Year 2020 Week 3 Highlight game: KC and Baltimore.

We're still wondering that. Feels like a concession we made or something we were told to do by the ACC.

Probably so. But my view is that there’s still a 95% chance we would’ve lost, all while exposing ourselves to a team that has Covid running rampant through it. And the 5% chance that we won, sure it would be great to beat Notre Dame but it would come with an asterisk and we would never be given real credit for it.

Anyway, back to your regularly scheduled NFL programming. Or in this case, irregularly scheduled.
 
Can the NFL just delay the playoffs a week and schedule any COVID postponement for that week? Or delay Week 17 as well, if you want the same "last week of the season" drama.
 
Can the NFL just delay the playoffs a week and schedule any COVID postponement for that week? Or delay Week 17 as well, if you want the same "last week of the season" drama.

That’s a good idea. However, the COVID IR is specifically to place people who test positive so they don’t interfere with the season.
 
There is a gap in testing. Tennessee may have played infected players who had passed their tests
https://www.ogboards.com/forums/sho...aused-game-postponement?p=3596396#post3596396

The NFL should have bubbled for a month at a time and played fewer games: Put divisions in a single location and let them play round robin for 3 weeks. Games all day at a single location. Take the 4th week off. Then re-bubble with interdivision game (NFC South and AFC West, for example). Play 4 interdivision games for 4 weeks at single location. Take the next week off. Repeat until 14 games played. The week off would allow for Covid recoveries, return home for a short visit, then re-locate/re-bubble.
 
Completely agree with that plan. I may have posted something similar before the season started. They could have done interconference bubbles and played 3 divisional games and 4 interconference games 7 weeks. Then do intraconference bubbles with 6 games against other conference divisions. Then ended with a divisional bubble for the last 3 weeks.

The big issue is how to host four games at one site within five available NFL slots (Thursday, Sun early, late, night, and Monday). But I don't think that would have been too much of a problem. Just do a MNF doubleheader and add a 10 am EST slot.

There are so many NFL players and staff that it makes a bubble or COVID restricts in a regular routine very difficult.
 
Completely agree with that plan. I may have posted something similar before the season started. They could have done interconference bubbles and played 3 divisional games and 4 interconference games 7 weeks. Then do intraconference bubbles with 6 games against other conference divisions. Then ended with a divisional bubble for the last 3 weeks.

The big issue is how to host four games at one site within five available NFL slots (Thursday, Sun early, late, night, and Monday). But I don't think that would have been too much of a problem. Just do a MNF doubleheader and add a 10 am EST slot.

There are so many NFL players and staff that it makes a bubble or COVID restricts in a regular routine very difficult.

That's the key. Where would you find 8 different locations that could host 4 football teams with rosters of 70 (including practice squanders), plus all of the attendant staff, coaches medical personnel, NFL officials and facilities? The NBA took 4 months to set up one location for 22 teams of 15 players; that's about the same size of a single NFL pod, and you need eight different NFL pods. Each pod must have sufficient training, dining and housing facilities to host and isolate 4 teams. Not sure that exists. Plus, the bubble format worked in basketball and hockey with a very limited regular season (about two weeks of games), and then an immediate post season that shrunk in numbers each week as teams are/were eliminated. That doesn't even factor in the need for a player buy-in to essentially leave his family for the length of the season. Bubbles can work for the post-season with limited teams, but don't think any league will try a full regular season bubble.
 
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There is a gap in testing. Tennessee may have played infected players who had passed their tests
https://www.ogboards.com/forums/sho...aused-game-postponement?p=3596396#post3596396

The NFL should have bubbled for a month at a time and played fewer games: Put divisions in a single location and let them play round robin for 3 weeks. Games all day at a single location. Take the 4th week off. Then re-bubble with interdivision game (NFC South and AFC West, for example). Play 4 interdivision games for 4 weeks at single location. Take the next week off. Repeat until 14 games played. The week off would allow for Covid recoveries, return home for a short visit, then re-locate/re-bubble.

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It's the flu with a name. There have been bad cases of unnamed flu in previous years and nobody cared much. Marketing is everything. The whole world is acting like the South with a snow forecast. This is going to run its course, probably worldwide, and be pretty much like a regular flu - fever, cough, and unfortunately kill some of the elderly.
 
Good post, Pilch. I think the NFL has done pretty well to make it this far without postponing games. Credit to the players and staff for staying disciplined off the field. I hate that we are asking so much of young people in this crisis.
 
Yikes well at least he seems to have come around. The internet always remembers
 
The one thing that the NFL could have done, and what the ACC and SEC did was to build in extra bye weeks to reschedule games postponed due to COVID. That's why it's hard to see the Pac 10 and Big 10 plan working as I believe it doesn't build in any bye weeks before their conference championships. With that said, the NFL likely has already a plan in place to extend the regular season by a week or more to make up games lost due to the virus. Unlike every other league, the NFL can move its schedule to whenever it wants and the networks will accommodate. If the Super Bowl is played a week or two later, it will still be the highest rated TV program of the year.
 
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