Have you given any thought to the POSSIBLE ramifications of the COVID pandemic and the effect it may have on the 2020 draft/season? If ,in a worst case scenario, the season is cancelled do you think Goodell still goes ahead with a draft right now? I've been scouring links to NFL-offices on Park Avenue and quite frankly am not finding anything that even remotely resembles a coherent plan, either immediate or strategic.
Secondly,what happens if the 2020 college season is cancelled? What kind of dire consequence would THAT hold for the 2021 draft? Here is what Goodell has to say as of today, as rep[orted by Peter King
According to Peter King of Pro Football Talk, Goodell might be conducting the 2020 NFL Draft — which has been moved from an in-person draft in Las Vegas, to a remote draft — from the friendly confines of his Bronxville home with a remotely controlled camera.
“The other day, I was told that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell could kick off the 2020 NFL Draft in 24 days from a remote-controlled camera in his home in Bronxville, N.Y., a village 15 miles north of NFL headquarters in Manhattan,” King wrote. “But, a source with knowledge of draft-logistics discussions told me, that would be a ‘worst-case scenario.’”
While one unnamed sourced described it as worst-case scenario, King and NFL Network’s Rich Eisen disputed that, saying that if Goodell were to do the draft from his home, it would continue to emphasize the importance of social distancing during the spread of coronavirus.
“Sounds like a ‘best-case scenario’ to me. Rich Eisen, the NFL Network draft host, agreed,” King wrote. “‘What better way to communicate the necessity to stay inside to stop the spread of the coronavirus than the commissioner of the NFL announcing the picks, alone, from his house in New York?’ Eisen told me.”
The 2020 draft was supposed to take place on the Las Vegas Strip. However, the league and Goodell decided on March 16 that it would no longer take place in public as planned. Ten days later, Goodell announced that the draft would go on as planned when it came to the timeline, but it would, “need to be conducted in a different way.”
If the draft needs to be conducted "in a different way" as of this early stage of the pandemic, exactly what way will a season take place as the pandemic plays out? Do the "32" and their commissioner plan on playing in empty stadiums? Revenues?