[Week 5: Bills at Titans on Tuesday Night Football]

6 minutes ago, Nextmanup said:

So now the Titans can't open up practice to, at best, Saturday, the day before the game.

Would the NFL actually make them  play a game 24 hours later, assuming they can open on Saturday!?

 

Not sure how this game can be played on Sunday.

 

Could it be flexed to Monday?  And still allow the Bills to play on Thursday night against the Chiefs on 1 day prep time after a day of rest? 

 

Seems they would.. League has come out and said the game is still on, as scheduled.

[Week 5: Bills at Titans on Tuesday Night Football]

9 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

He is fired up about teams that don’t follow protocol 

 

"It's not a ripple, it's a tsunami" - Chris Brown

[Week 5: Bills at Titans on Tuesday Night Football]

4 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

Btw Chris brown is going nuts again on radio lol

 

I honestly can't listen to him anymore..  I like the show, generally speaking, but he is really frustrating when it comes to anything COVID related.

[Are More Teams Tanking Than Ever in 2020?]

Only team that actively seems like it’s tanking are the Jets.   
 

That could also just be the remnants of the worst GM ever, mixed with poor moves made by the new GM...  

 

I know they have high hopes for Douglas, but the Robbie Anderson departure, mixed in with only taking one WR in a loaded WR draft, look pretty bad right now.  
 

Becton looks good, but that’s the only guy he’s brought in who can even seem to get on the field.....and now he’s hurt. 

[Week 5: Bills at Titans on Tuesday Night Football]

13 minutes ago, scribo said:

Move Tennessee to Tuesday. Move Kansas City to Sunday night.

This is the move.  If Titans stay a dumpster fire, make them practice virtually and play with whoever they have left on Tuesday.  
 

 

[Week 5: Bills at Titans on Tuesday Night Football]

2 minutes ago, Joe in Winslow said:

 

Is a forfeit possible?

 

Sucky, but I'd take a free conference win.

 

I really, really don’t want a forfeit.  I honestly can’t emphasize how much I’d hate that.  
 

I think the Titans need to be dealt with by the league, but I’d rather add a Week 18, then get a cheap win. 

[Week 5: Bills at Titans on Tuesday Night Football]

NFL needs to bring the hammer down on the Titans.  
 

The Pats news isn’t great, but we don’t know if that going to be a full blown outbreak, and they’ve got all their games in so far.  
 

The Titans are singlehandedly derailing the season for all other 31 teams. 

[Week 5: Bills at Titans on Tuesday Night Football]

Things looked somewhat promising for the NFL last night.. 

 

COVID pulls a Lee Corso “Not so fast, my friend”

 

 

[Raiders DT who played 35 snaps vs Bills placed on Reserve/COVID list]

 

[Week 5: Bills at Titans on Tuesday Night Football]

4 hours ago, RalphWilson'sNewWar said:

Based on professional athlete mentality and behavioral patterns...they probably feel invincible.  At least the younger group of players...any Vet Who has been through the ringer of play and life probably has a better perspective.

 

when you get told and treated form the age of 12ish that you are literally a Demi-God amongst sheep that starts to effect your thinking.

Im in my mid-30’s.  Im not worried about COVID at all - but if I knew catching it would screw my team up, I’d worry from that standpoint alone.  
 

 

[MNF: Pats* at Chiefs 7:05 pm CBS]

Mahomes with two TD passes ::rolls eyes::

[MNF: Pats* at Chiefs 7:05 pm CBS]

Mahomes is playing like a little b**** right now..

 

Stop flopping every time you slow up on the sideline. 

[MNF: Pats* at Chiefs 7:05 pm CBS]

Hoyer just refuses to put points on the board. 

[Cam Newton tests positive for Covid, OUT Sunday v Chiefs UPDATE: Game postponed]

3 minutes ago, 1ManRaid said:

 

I'm pretty sure there is a waiting period on signing new players.  Cuz, you know, Covid protocols?  I'm 100% sure a virus screening is required procedure before letting any new player through your doors, like comon think about it for two seconds.

 

Also can anyone save me 22 pages of scanning and tell me if anyone knows the circumstances around Newton getting it?  I absolutely wouldn't be surprised to hear that he was out partying or something. 

Nobody knows yet, but my suspicion is he got it trying on scarves at the Ann Taylor outlet. 

[Titans NOW 20 positive Covid tests and Impacts ] updated 10/3]

5 minutes ago, scribo said:

How many consecutive days of no new positives will be enough for them to be able to practice? To play another team? Three? Since they've been physically separated since Tuesday, it could be reasonably expected for the positives to stop soon. If they were to have their last positive Monday, I'd say they could play maybe Sunday or Monday. I really don't like the Bills having to go into their facility. Maybe move the venue? 

Agreed.  The positives “should” fizzle out soon.  
 

They’ve already had a game postponed and jacked up the Steelers bye week.  

 

If they can play, they need to play.  Enough is enough for this team.  Move the game to Monday or Tuesday, if needed, and then move Bills/Chiefs to Sunday Night/Monday Night.  

[Titans NOW 20 positive Covid tests and Impacts ] updated 10/3]

Just now, whatdrought said:

 

It looks like the whole thing started with them bringing in a Free agent who tested negative but then was positive?... hmm.

Even so, did the entire team run up to the free agent and take turns mouth kissing him?... There are protocols in place to prevent a team-wide outbreak (distancing, testing, contact tracing etc).. This is just getting absurd.  

[Titans NOW 20 positive Covid tests and Impacts ] updated 10/3]

Just now, YoloinOhio said:

 

I’m quickly starting to lose sympathy for the Titans.  This looks like much more than they just got unlucky.  

[Per PFT - Multiple coaches want to cancel all games tomorrow, put a pause on season 😢]

1 minute ago, thebandit27 said:

I think we should expect this to happen. 
 

Florio is a bit of a tool, but he’s become something of a test subject for NFL media. If you’ve noticed, he’ll often proffer a “suggestion” to the league that ends up either being implemented or at least discussed. My take is that someone from the league will feed him ideas that the NFL is considering, and he’ll post them as his suggestions.

 

It’s a Quid Pro Quo—the league gets to see the reaction from fans before they move forward, and Florio gets credit for coming up with a great idea for the league and the game.

 

As to the idea itself, I think a 2 week break makes sense. Gives the league enough time to restructure the schedule to 12 games, get teams bubbled and tested (and quarantined as necessary), and jump back into a schedule that adds 2 weeks of “make up games” in case outbreaks occur.

With the Saints re-test negative, we’re back to one outbreak on the Titans, and then one positive on the Falcons last week that was successfully contained, now one positive on the Pats and one on the Chiefs.  
 

If the Chiefs and Pats follow protocol and successfully contain it, I’d say the Titans are the outlier and the NFL protocols are working....if not, then I’d expect harsh reinforcement of protocols/penalties this week.... should more teams experience issues, then perhaps the league pauses to reassess, but that’s such a bad look for the league.  ....especially when no other league would have had to do that upon restart and we’re all watching CFB during the pause.  

[Per PFT - Multiple coaches want to cancel all games tomorrow, put a pause on season 😢]

7 minutes ago, tomur67 said:

Let's face it.   We'd all be singing a different tune if Josh Allen tested positive for covid.  God, please don't let it happen.

I wouldn’t.  If Josh gets it, and let’s face it, he certainly could at some point... we play with Barkley for a week or two.   No special treatment.  
 

Bank wins to prepare for that.  

[Per PFT - Multiple coaches want to cancel all games tomorrow, put a pause on season 😢]

I don’t even like Clay Travis that much, but I follow him on Twitter, specifically, because of people like Florio.  

[Per PFT - Multiple coaches want to cancel all games tomorrow, put a pause on season 😢]

Just now, Chandler#81 said:

This. And who tf is “multiple coaches”? 

Weak journalism. Professional Rabble-Rousing

Florio has been doing this since jump.  I don’t understand this mentality from some sports journalists that seem hell-bent on not having sports, but he’s been pushing the panic narrative far before today.  

[A Saints player just tested positive for COVID]

4 minutes ago, Brennan Huff said:

I don’t think anyone is saying cancel the whole season. MLB was on hiatus for a few months

Same with the NBA, but that was when we didn’t know anything about this.  Once they reopened, they had a season without pause.  
 

NFL pausing while we have college football games, with fans in the stands, is just something I don’t see happening.   
 

 

[Per PFT - Multiple coaches want to cancel all games tomorrow, put a pause on season 😢]

I will say, while I don’t believe this report at all, a “pause” would be such a horrible optic for the NFL.  
 

Every other league went into this with a plan, executed it (in MLB’s case, with bumps in the road) and had their season with minor interruptions.  
 

CFB is revving up to a full slate of conference games by November, and you have teams like Virginia Tech playing games without 20+ players, gutting their way through it.  Some games postponed, see Notre Dame etc.  

 

For the NFL to have to recalibrate for what everyone had to assume was inevitable, would be quite the admission of failure on a league level.  

[A Saints player just tested positive for COVID]

3 hours ago, Giuseppe Tognarelli said:

All you people smugly laughing about posts like this. I get it that you want the league to continue, but I don't understand why that has to translate into annoying behavior like this. Clearly things are not looking great right now. We currently have at least 5 teams with problems, and the trends are not good. Admitting it won't hurt you.

 

Everyone talking about the MLB ignores the fact that the weather is changing and the cases appear to be skyrocketing.

Both sides get annoying with this.   It’s just as annoying when people knee jerk pontificate about shutting down the season.  
 

Who knows, it could happen, but I’d be shocked if MLB figured it out and CFB is revving up to a full slate by November, yet the NFL is the only major sport to close up shop.  

[Per PFT - Multiple coaches want to cancel all games tomorrow, put a pause on season 😢]

1 minute ago, Chandler#81 said:

I just can’t see any way no one else was infected. I know yesterday’s tests came back negative, but there’s indistinguishable incubation period. Cam practiced all week with his teammates. All of a sudden he’s positive stepping on the plane and no onther Pat* is?

 

I’m not buying it.

Falcons managed to contain it to one player.  
 

Vikings didn’t get it after playing the Titans.  
 

If the Pats/Chiefs can keep it contained, that would be a huge boost to the NFL, leaving only the Titans who had an outbreak.   If not, we could have problems.