Originally Posted by Demonpenz:
we should be working on equality and stomping out covid for good. So cancelling the season is probably a good thing so we can focus on shit that matters.
I agree for the most part. But, if we lapse back into a lock down or should be in a lock down. Sports can help our morale like baseball and football did after 9/11. That had a lot of value to getting back to some semblance of normal.
Originally Posted by DaFace:
My concern is what happens when a player catches it. It's almost a certainty. Or even worse, what if a team has a breakout? Does the team just forfeit any games they have to skip because they can't field a team?
It's gonna be iffy at best.
exactly. It’s going to happen. How could you ever figure out a way to maintain competitive balance?
Originally Posted by dirk digler:
The concern should be all the old coaches like ours. If Reid got it he might not make it.
Im sure Andy has about 10 pre-existing conditions. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DaFace:
My concern is what happens when a player catches it. It's almost a certainty. Or even worse, what if a team has a breakout? Does the team just forfeit any games they have to skip because they can't field a team?
It's gonna be iffy at best.
As a starting point to address this the NFL should expand roster sizes this season and maybe also expand practice squad sizes as well. [Reply]
Originally Posted by dirk digler:
Yes let's expose people on purpose to an infectious disease so we can have our entertainment. You should do that to your family.
Arent we kind of doing that with everything being opened back up and people going to work? [Reply]
Originally Posted by KCChiefsFan88:
There are ways the NFL can create a virtual bubble for its players, coaches, officials, etc. that isn't as extreme as the NBA's bubble location in Orlando.
Restrict who they can come in contact with outside of football activities such as practice/games/travel, restrict where they can go during this time, etc.
It won't be perfect, but it is a realistic risk mitigation strategy that can be sustained over the duration of a regular season/postseason.
But there are so many additional people involved.
Who feeds all those players and transport them around?
And all the different medical trainers and specialists NFL players get involved with?
Basketball players breathe on each other in close proximity just as much as football players do. And they’re gonna do a season.
“But what if a player gets Covid?????!!!!!” Uhh I don’t fucking know. The NFL is working on that problem. They’re doing lots of planning and consulting. They’ll probably find a way. They have time. And they reeeeeally want there to be a season.
Covid is a crisis, yes. Part of what makes it a crisis is we don’t have a lot of immediate answers, including how best to put on a football season. But we’ve already made a ton of progress in data collection and research, and the answers are starting to roll in.
Just because you don’t have a fool-proof plan already in place doesn’t mean you throw up your arms and say, “Well shit. It can’t be done. Fuck us, amirite?” [Reply]
I’ll bet someone on here ten bucks and a bag of doughnuts that more than half the school districts in this country send their students back to school in the fall. [Reply]
Originally Posted by RealSNR:
I’ll bet someone on here ten bucks and a bag of doughnuts that more than half the school districts in this country send their students back to school in the fall.
a lot will be back. but few if any have made announcements.
Minn will know more July 20 or so. [Reply]
Originally Posted by RealSNR:
Too many vaginas in this thread.
Basketball players breathe on each other in close proximity just as much as football players do. And they’re gonna do a season.
“But what if a player gets Covid?????!!!!!” Uhh I don’t ****ing know. The NFL is working on that problem. They’re doing lots of planning and consulting. They’ll probably find a way. They have time. And they reeeeeally want there to be a season.
Covid is a crisis, yes. Part of what makes it a crisis is we don’t have a lot of immediate answers, including how best to put on a football season. But we’ve already made a ton of progress in data collection and research, and the answers are starting to roll in.
Just because you don’t have a fool-proof plan already in place doesn’t mean you throw up your arms and say, “Well shit. It can’t be done. **** us, amirite?”
American professional sports leagues in general look collectively pathetic in their return to play responses.
Most of the major soccer leagues in Europe have returned to play and they aren’t existing in air tight bubbles with a million rules/restrictions. [Reply]
Texas governor announced yesterday that our schools will start on time in August. High school football teams across Texas have started summer workouts, and there is a big 7 on 7 football tournament this weekend in Dallas. [Reply]