Week 5: Bills at Titans on Tuesday Night Football

[Richard Noggin]

2 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

 

 

[YoloinOhio]

17 minutes ago, Just Joshin' said:

So Pats, Chiefs and Raiders all negative today.  Titans continue to test positive. 

 

The Titans have massively screwed up the protocols.  They need to be punished.

The NFL has to be absolutely livid. They are ruining their image as far as how they are handing the virus, because they put protocols in place to have a season and they were ignored. It’s a horrible look from the titans.

Edited October 8, 2020 by YoloinOhio

[PromoTheRobot]

56 minutes ago, Beast said:

 

So, you are against the league taking their time to make a huge decision like this?

 

What benefit will it have for anyone if they made it yesterday compared to say, today or tomorrow?

 

It just looks like tough talk but no actual will to follow through. They keep bringing up the "F" word but I doubt they'll actually do it.

Edited October 8, 2020 by PromoTheRobot

[BillsCuse]

Just cancel the game already and let the Bills move onto next week.  No need to keep the Bills in limbo anymore for the Titans F$ck up

[TheFunPolice]

Just now, Golden*Wheels said:

We'd have whipped their asses anyway. There...I said it.

 

Agreed! Same outcome, but none of our players are at risk.

 

It does mess up Josh's stats though.

[Hapless Bills Fan]

10 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

That is my understanding as well - that the Titans were told not to gather outside the facility WHEN the facility was shut down,  but the memo came out leaguewide Oct 1.

But as noted above there seems to be a lot of confusion about these matters.

 

From reporter Paul Kuharsky:

 

[Mango]

17 minutes ago, Just Joshin' said:

So Pats, Chiefs and Raiders all negative today.  Titans continue to test positive. 

 

The Titans have massively screwed up the protocols.  They need to be punished.

I generally agree. I’m not sure they need to make a final decision on what skipping this game means though. I don’t think the league has to commit to week 18, forfeit, win%, etc. 

 

The league does absolutely need to cancel playing it this week and call further decision “pending”

[Penfield45]

we can definitely say the NFL has handled this situation worse than any other pro sports league 

 

the wealthiest league in the world looks like it has no idea how to handle this...embarrassing 

[YoloinOhio]

1 minute ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

 

From reporter Paul Kuharsky:

 

Yep, players saying they didn’t know because not in writing. Major organizational failure no matter who is at fault.

 

 

[DCOrange]

16 minutes ago, scribo said:

What real assurance do the Bills (or the league) really have that proper protocol has been followed in the past week? NONE. With yet another one or two positives today, that is at least an indication that prohibited gatherings took place beyond the now infamous Sept. 30 practice.

Not really. It's certainly possible that's the case, but the virus takes up to around 14 days to incubate and that practice was 8 or 9 days ago so it's entirely possible people are still testing positive from exposure that occurred prior to that practice.

 

Which also points to the fact that it's irresponsible that the Pats-Chiefs game for example was played this past week and will be irresponsible if the Titans play this week. There's a pretty high likelihood that if it's played, it will be played with players that have the virus spreading it to other players, much like was the case with Gilmore against the Chiefs.

[wjag]

1 minute ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

 

From reporter Paul Kuharsky:

 

 

Yep. They did it at least twice, looks like different position groups.  There has been some early reporting that there were discrepancies in the contact tracing data.  Wondering if the players down there took off their bracelets so as not to have their location known.

 

[Wayne Cubed]

I think this game had to be cancelled at this point but I really am against giving the Bills a forfeited win at this point. Yes, they broke the rules but no team signed up for a season where one team gains an advantage by getting a free win. No team signed up for forfeited wins.

[boco357]

I think you have to look at the top here

. Mike Vrabel strikes me as a guy who doesnt  care about protocol .  Look back to draft night at his house, a clown show.

[D. L. Hot-Flamethrower]

1 minute ago, Penfield45 said:

we can definitely say the NFL has handled this situation worse than any other pro sports league 

 

the wealthiest league in the world looks like it has no idea how to handle this...embarrassing 

I disagree, and I'm no apologist for the league, Baseball had a problem with the Marlins and Cardinals. How they handle the Titans is the biggest question yet to be determined. Still salavageable as one team of lunkheads caused the problem.

[YoloinOhio]

1 minute ago, DCOrange said:

Not really. It's certainly possible that's the case, but the virus takes up to around 14 days to incubate and that practice was 8 or 9 days ago so it's entirely possible people are still testing positive from exposure that occurred prior to that practice.

 

Which also points to the fact that it's irresponsible that the Pats-Chiefs game for example was played this past week and will be irresponsible if the Titans play this week. There's a pretty high likelihood that if it's played, it will be played with players that have the virus spreading it to other players, much like was the case with Gilmore against the Chiefs.

That hasn’t happened, at least not yet. No chiefs or pats have tested positive. And he flew home on a plane afterward.

[PaattMaann]

2 minutes ago, Penfield45 said:

we can definitely say the NFL has handled this situation worse than any other pro sports league 

 

the wealthiest league in the world looks like it has no idea how to handle this...embarrassing 

 

I disagree. I think the NFL has a lot of great protocols in place...and why we have seen very minimal spread of this easily spreadable virus. The breakdown happens when INDIVIDUALS choose not to follow those protocols. I don't fault the NFL for that.

 

However, they likely SHOULD HAVE built in shared bye weeks for all teams to make up games that would be cancelled, inevitably. But overall I think they have done a good job. 

[Malazan]

There's no game this Sunday. They need to just announce it and get it over with.

[Captain Caveman]

 

This whole sketch is worth watching (NSFW due to vulgarity) but I tried to have it start at 3:39, because it's relevant.

[YoloinOhio]

2 minutes ago, boco357 said:

I think you have to look at the top here

. Mike Vrabel strikes me as a guy who doesnt  care about protocol .  Look back to draft night at his house, a clown show.

Meat. head. 

Ummmm Bills might not be too interested in a forfeit or cancellation knowing this 

 

 

Edited October 8, 2020 by YoloinOhio

[DCOrange]

2 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

That hasn’t happened, at least not yet. No chiefs or pats have tested positive. And he flew home on a plane afterward.

 

It already happened though. It's pretty much a 100% chance Gilmore had the virus when he played this past week. He just hadn't tested positive yet because that's how the virus works. The NFL doesn't care about sick players playing as long as they don't have evidence that they knew they were sick.

 

Edit: Playing the game with a player that has it has happened. I assume you mean that it hasn't spread to others from that game yet, which we won't know for another week or so.

Edited October 8, 2020 by DCOrange