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

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Big C
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Maybe adding an extra week of play at the end of the season?

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I just spent a half-hour of my lunchtime cleaning up this thread because some people think they are too important to follow the same rules as everybody else. Having one person working overtime be

JoshAllenHasBigHands
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I'm surprised the answer to this question hasn't been discussed ad nauseum already.  This is the $1million question, and I feel like I haven't heard a peep about it. 

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If it can be proved through contact tracing that the infection came from outside contact, the Titans should be suspended for two weeks, forced to forfeit the next two games, and the season goes on as scheduled.

 

This would be a wake up call to all other teams to stay in their “virtual bubble” or cost your team two games.

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LabattBlue All Pro

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2 minutes ago, SCBills said:

 

This is a football board, not a COVID freak out board, hence the discussion on how it affects football related events. 

That is why they should play no matter what. What’s a few positive tests here or there?  No big deal.  Play on!  If it spreads, it spreads. 
 

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DRutka UDFA

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21 minutes ago, eball said:

The "fair" thing to do would be to postpone all W4 games and add them to the end of the season, pushing the playoffs back a week.

The fair thing to do would be to have no fans in attendance league wide until all teams could have fans. We saw how the NFL responded to that.

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3 minutes ago, Special K said:

If it can be proved through contact tracing that the infection came from outside contact, the Titans should be suspended for two weeks, forced to forfeit the next two games, and the season goes on as scheduled.

 

This would be a wake up call to all other teams to stay in their “virtual bubble” or cost your team two games.

Thats a little ridiculous.  What if someone's family member caught it from school or running errands

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9 minutes ago, scribo said:

I do not think the league should or would start altering schedules now for one or two teams.  Yeah, there are some easy ways now to rework the schedule, but what happens later int the year if there is a positive but no easy way out. Consistency is they way this handle this will be key to keep it fair to all. Tell the Titans they have to play. If they cannot field a roster of players who test negative, they should forfeit. Maybe one irresponsible person should not be able to take down the entire league.


 

We don’t know if that so called 1 irresponsible person was a player.  They questioned whether it may have been from the return flight - could someone from the flight crew been non symptomatic and touched something or passed through the circulating air.

 

Could someone at the hotel begin the spread.

 

You do everything to make it as fair as possible - blame should not be assigned until you determine the reasons it happened.

 

 

DrDawkinstein Hall of Famer

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5 minutes ago, BillsCuse said:

MLB got through this with the Marlins and some other teams.  Wishful thinking the NFL gets through this and the inevitable next breakout as well

 

It's a lot easier to make a team eat some games in a 180 game schedule than in the NFL where every game is a huge deal to the standings.

YoloinOhio Hall of Famer

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7 minutes ago, Special K said:

If it can be proved through contact tracing that the infection came from outside contact, the Titans should be suspended for two weeks, forced to forfeit the next two games, and the season goes on as scheduled.

 

This would be a wake up call to all other teams to stay in their “virtual bubble” or cost your team two games.

I don’t think you can do this. They aren’t in a bubble. And Nashville is wide open. Player could have easily been infected by the pilot who’s wife went to the mall. 

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4 minutes ago, BillsCuse said:

Thats a little ridiculous.  What if someone's family member caught it from school or running errands

Players are not permitted to interact with those family members. This was talked about quite a but when Tre White was explaining the sacrifices he'd have to make while he was considering opting out.

3 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

I don’t think you can do this. They aren’t in a bubble. And Nashville is wide open. Player could have easily been infected by the pilot who’s wife went to the mall. 

They aren't flying SouthWest. It is a privately chartered flight. All flight personnel are tested before coming into contact with the team.

5 minutes ago, Runningaces said:

If they did cancel they could just give pitt and tenn.a bye week.

 

Move the steelers ravens game from week 7 to 8 and

Play tenn.and pitt week 7

The league has to treat every team the same for the entire season. Make that kind of move now isn't too hard. But what happens if this occurs again for a different team after the bye weeks are over?

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The fact that someone gets sick does not necessarily mean that they did something wrong or should be blamed.

 

You can take every precaution and still get the virus. Protocols and behaviors that are 99% effective are great, but there will be positives. 

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ColoradoBills Hall of Famer

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There's already all kind of speculations flying around.  Let's hope there is a "Gene Kranz" type at NFL Headquarters.

"............let's not make the problem worse by guessing"!

 

 

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This is definitely big news for the league on how they can handle this. I would expect anyone infected is already out for next week no matter what and that’s where the practice squad spots come in. Unless there’s 15+ more positive tests coming I fully expect them to play on and replace the infected with practice squad along with non stop testing of Minnesota and Tennessee. I can’t see any scenarios where games are cancelled outside of 15-20 positive tests on the team. 

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TheFunPolice Hall of Famer

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Agreed. If it is truly limited to just 3 players then you call up practice squad guys and play the game. Just like it was an injury.

 

I'm amazed it took until almost October for this to happen. 

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Aussie Joe All Pro

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So the Titans facilities are closed until Saturday at the earliest..

 

Is there much chance  their game this week can go ahead on the back of at best a days prep?

 

Doesnt seem likely ..

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