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What a strange and f'd up season
NFL should have built in multiple bye weeks. Totally unprepared for a reschedule
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That’s what I’ve been saying since the beginning. 14 game season. Leaves three weeks to play with...NFL can’t leave that money on the table though...Originally Posted by NCSteeler
Safety first!!
So they’ll be on the road longer. Baltimore will most likely have a bye week to prepare for Pittsburgh and the Steelers go from having a great bye week to a useless one.
It wasn’t the Titans but looking like the Steelers May be the ones getting the biggest screw job here.
They should add it to the end of the season so it doesn’t inconvenience the Steelers but you know they won’t do that...NFL first!!
It will be hard but not impossible.The steelers won the super bowl in 2005 with a bye in week 4.
How about they just test the rest of the players (which they have) and just play the game without the infected people? Set a threshold before cancellation. So they are postponing a game because of four players, only one starter, and one from their practice squad tested positive? I could understand if it's 9 of your starters but seriously?
So the policy is we are going to just ignore this and hope it doesn't happen because we are the NFL. Then a TOTALLY predictable thing happens. The NFL is the DUMBEST sports league on the planet. Full stop. Every other sports league had a logical set of policies for handling this type of thing. Buffers and breaks built into the pace of the schedule. The NFL? We are just going to do what we usually do except without fans in the stands.
Again, this is not about whether the viral infection that the Titans have is a big deal or not. It is about if your policy is once a team crosses threshold X; then we have to start doing Y and Z -- which can include cancelling games. Well, then any reasonable person can see that you have to have more than one bye built into the schedule. Or simply know that you are extending your regular season into weeks 18-19 for some teams. Instead, reading between the line, the NFL is going to consider moving teams byes around and getting this game squeezed into the existing schedule unless there is another team that gets in the same situation. Then there will likely be too many plates to keep spinning so we will get a 4-6 team week 18.
Like I said before. Divide the season into quarters. Play 4 games. Everyone takes a week off. Play four more. Another Bye. And so forth. Then you have 3-4 points along the way you can reschedule stuff. The season would go on forever; but who cares? Certainly not the TV networks? WTF are they going to put on? More reruns of reality shows?
FWIW, I suspect that we are going to find out some defensive coaches (where it seems to be centered in Tenn.) engaged in some boneheaded violation of basic protocols. Bar, strip club, something. If the NFL was serious about all this; they would reschedule games for stuff that just happens and forfeit games when it happens because members of your organization are idiots. Oh well. I'm not really wanting that to happen. More just pointing out that, as usual, the NFL's policies are half-baked and poorly thought out.
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The problem is that the 2 teams would have to have the same bye week. How are you going to know that in advance??
Multiple byes gives lots of rescheduling options. Now there is only one week to find a way to get a game in. And it's only week 4
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I say they should all be tested in game day, Tuesday and play with who ya got. If your team is irresponsible it hurts, too bad.
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I mentioned something similar, but not as straightforward as you have put it here. I do wonder, did this take hold on the Titans because "well, shit happens" or did members of the organization do something irresponsible? I kinda feel like the league should have had a different response based on the answer to those questions. But that's just a knee-jerk reaction as I bang away on my keyboard this mornign.
Weeks 7-10 maybe could be shuffled around to work because the Titans and Steelers both have the Bengals as an opponent and the bye weeks of all three teams fall in that range as well.
Either way it's just bad luck like any other injury. I mean why expand rosters and PS if your going to cancel games anyhow
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I am thinking Pitt-Phil Steagles vs. the Ten-Jax Tags
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So what is the plan when a team misses 2 games or if the Steelers have another game canceled due to covid?
They don't have one.
Also what happens if this is week 17?
Sounds like the Ravens plan is the plan as long as there are no positive cases in Minnesota.
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I agree. If this was an isolated event - not likely to happen again - then manipulating the bye weeks would be fine. Yea unfair to the Steelers, but Tomlin has the correct approach. The issue is that this is likely to affect additional teams this season. The later is the season we get the harder it will be to manipulate the bye weeks, causing the NFL to add games to the end of the season anyways. Its one thing to disadvantage the Steelers over an isolated incident , but if the Steelers have to play 13 weeks in a row and have their schedule otherwise put into chaos, only to have other teams with postponed games getting to make them up at the end of the season, that would be a disgrace.
This is so stupid. Such poor planning. If you were going to do this why weren't there more built-in bye weeks? Quarantine the Titans players that are sick and let everyone else play with what they have. But that would make too much sense. The stupidest option is always the best option for Gotohell I guess
Can I please get the "Sky is Falling " cat picture up here?
1. There is always a possibllity of extending the season a week or 2....or reducing it to 14 games in order to allow 2 weeks for more similar incidents. Stay flexible people.
2. Viruses can take time to incubate, so just isolating whoever is positive on a Thursday and going ahead with practice planning and games is not the smartest idea. That is why the lag in needing time to have a couple days of negative tests to move forward.
3. This gives Steeler fans extra time to complain about their favorite target. ie. "Conner is always injured," Snell has fumble problems, "Ben doesnt watch enough film, "Nelson has time to let his burns heal", "Minkah was a wasted trade since he hasnt done anything this season", etc.
This.
Great points and I have no argument with them. My only point is that the NFL created a plan that had (seemingly?) no room for accounting for an obvious series of outcomes. This is several billion dollar industry with access to any resource or tool they could ever want - yet the continually seem to be brought up short by obvious hurdles.
It’s not easy to shorten the season because there are division games that could affect playoff seeding and division titles. It would be a total joke if a team doesn’t have a legit chance to win their division at the end of the season because one team played more division games. In Pittsburgh’s case they would miss out on a Browns, Bengals and Colts game...that’s three games that could play to a division title and conference seeding.
As for extending the season, it would work if this is the only incident because there’s one week to play with between the season and Super Bowl. But if you are moving the Super Bowl, that’s logistically a little harder.
What should’ve happened is the teams play 13-14 games. 2 division games and the remaining conference games. Anything that was missed could be put at the end of the season and not effected the playoffs.
Add another titan player to the list who have covid
I don't think it's any coincidence that the NFL is also saddled with the most incompetent commissioner in professional sports...
https://www.rotoworld.com/football/n.../roger-goodell
Another series of after the fact nonsense by a short sighted league.
While I agree that Goodell is useless, I blame owners like Jones and Kraft and Snyder and all of LA teams who are just in it for the ego and the cash.
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Isn’t that what the extended PS was for? Instances like this, to supplement the rosters? If not, then why the extended PS?
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