we need to live with that but the good news is this is possible...Last year,the 49ers had their bye week in week 4,so no excuse!Originally Posted by HollywoodSteel
we need to live with that but the good news is this is possible...Last year,the 49ers had their bye week in week 4,so no excuse!
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Titans Bills can't be pushed to Monday because the Bills play the following Thursday. What a mess.
And this game cannot be canceled or postponed later in the season, otherwise the bills would have a big advantage in the game against the chiefs because the chiefs would have played on Sunday.
The NFL got what they deserve
It is comical to watch the league flail around so badly at this.
I dont think its entirely the leagues fault. The sheer amount of players, coaches, staff on each of the 32 teams, means that you are trying to operate a full contact sport, with a group of over 2000 people in a non-bubble type of environment and minimize the amount of people that contract a highly communicable virus. AND still maintain a schedule.
There was a very high likelihood that something like this was going to happen multiple times. Unless you think the world is flat and its all the doing of Bill Gates and a secret group that meets in a secluded location known only as "the meadows".
I think that its the fact that the NFL's plan was destined for failure from the jump. We are seeing video emerge of the Titans not following the policies during sanctioned practices and then holding unsanctioned private workouts on top of that. Then there is whatever the Raiders were doing a little while ago. Watching "Hard Knocks" most of the coaches were like "Need to do better about wearing my mask, LOL! But at least we are doing football...I'm not a doctor!" We have seen that carryover across the league during regular season games.
In a league where they can and do fine guys for how they wear their socks and attempt to enforce rules on players lives outside of football in all other aspects; it is comical to see the COVID policies be revealed to be so toothless. It is also comical that the NFL thought that masks were magic barriers that meant basic science and virology wouldn't apply to their players. The lack of predetermined slots to make up missed games is a glaring omission.
The NFL had a plan to fail. Their plan accounted for none of the obvious things that even fans could predict would happen. Is it any shock that football players on the Titans held "illegal" workouts? Having someone like your starting QB organize a workout on their own has been ingrained in these guys for decades as the exact definition of leadership and what it means to be an NFL player.
The league has tried to have its cake (business as usual) and eat it too (running a large contact sports league during an pandemic). They should have seriously considered a bubble. They should have scheduled 2-3 additional bye weeks. They should have posted league observers at facilities and games with specific stipulations on what COVID policy violations would be and then actually enforced them.
But like everything else, this is about $$$$. Can't forfeit games. Can't dock draft picks. Can't suspend players because who wants to watch the teams play without their best guys?
So I do find it funny. Because the league does what it always does. It put on theater. It played at keeping everyone in line. Images of masks and magic little social distance sensors. Then it proceeded to not enforce almost all of its policies. Less than ideal results start rolling in and all the league does is issue memos and directives from the central offices with no attempt to actually do anything.
NFL could’ve totally handled this and been prepared to deal with it...they just chose not to and to go about business like there is nothing wrong.
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