report I saw said they're not currently planning to move any games
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....
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.