Titans Covid positives, first outbreak

[h0c2000]

Not good to see, real positives

 

[NYCPATS4LIFE]

Not good to see, real positives

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LIKELT
I bet they broke the code. All it takes is for one idiot to not follow guidelines and the season’s over.

 

[mikey m]

Do we know what the league's plan of action is here? Are games going to be rescheduled and tacked on to the end of the season?

 

[NE_Zealot]

 

[Sciz]

The good news: It's easy to reschedule Titans/Steelers, because they just have to move Steelers/Ravens from week 7 to week 8 (their byes) and Steelers/Titans from week 4 to week 7 (the Titans' bye week).

The bad news: Moving Vikings/Texans looks like a mess, because the Texans play the Packers on the Vikings' week 7 bye, and the Vikings also play the Packers on the Texans' week 8 bye.

 

[Bella*chick]

Ruh-roh

 

[amfootball]

Titans cannot meet all week until Saturday. Not sure if the same is true for the Vikings. The Sunday games have not been rescheduled yet.

 

[luuked]

If thats true then the Titans game on Sunday is off.

 

[Nikolai]

Oh man...

Well...****...

I think I had 2-4 weeks in the prediction poll a few months back.

Goddammit

 

[JMC00]

Zero surprise that it comes from a Vrabel run team

 

[Hammer of Thor]

Titans, Vikings suspend in-person activities over Titans' positive COVID-19 tests - ProFootballTalk
Titans close facilities until Saturday - ProFootballTalk
Florio is suggesting swapping the Steelers/Ravens week 7 matchup to week 8 (both have byes that week) to allow this Sunday’s game to be rescheduled to week 7.

 

[catent]

And that's all it takes for the wheels to come off the whole operation. Fingers-crossed they can keep this isolated, reschedule game(s) and move forward without issue.

Here's hoping MIN avoids a major impact.

 

[203Pat]

Let's see how the league manages this. Hopefully they are able to control this and not let it derail the season but then again this is the NFL we are talking about so there could be 30 positives by tomorrow.

 

[SHOWTIME15]

The NHL and NBA did it right with their bubbles...no major covid issues in those leagues and both have or will soon crown a champion. The NFL should have had followed suit, but Goondell thinks he's smarter than everyone

 

[sb1]

Here we go.

 

[FCB02062]

shut everything down, get in bubble wrap, cancel the season...

of course, no one in here said it was only 3 players that popped positive. 55 active roster plus 12 practice squad means there's 67 players getting tested multiple times a week...3 + tests...this isn't a surprise people.

 

[jmt57]

Do we know what the league's plan of action is here? Are games going to be rescheduled and tacked on to the end of the season?

It appears the league's only plan was to expand the practice squad and make it easier to move players from the practice squad to the active roster, and also to place less restrictions on the injured list.

They have protocols right down to the coin toss and national anthem, but no mention of what to do if eight players test positive.

I don't see how they could reschedule any game, unless those two teams have the same bye week.

Edit: see post #11

NFL COVID rules, explained: Everything to know about coronavirus and football in 2020 | Sporting News

Explaining the NFL's COVID rules

www.sportingnews.com

 

[Ian]

Honestly, it should just go down as a forfeit by Tennessee. Pittsburgh did their part, those who can’t, I feel like they’ll have to pay the price...unfortunately. At least if we plan on making it through the whole year. It’s not fair to the Steelers, as much as I dislike Tomlin, to have to have their world turned around because the other team’s players couldn’t stick to the protocols.

 

[Scotty]

Official statement says 3 players and 5 personnel , wonder if they can pin down roughly where the break was ?

 

[203Pat]

Honestly, it should just go down as a forfeit by Tennessee. Pittsburgh did their part, those who can’t, I feel like they’ll have to pay the price...unfortunately. At least if we plan on making it through the whole year. It’s not fair to the Steelers, as much as I dislike Tomlin, to have to have their world turned around because the other team’s players couldn’t stick to the protocols.

Yeah I don't know how you can penalize the team/players who followed protocols because they just so happened to be playing a team who didn't. Really no completely fair way to reschedule this game without it negatively affecting the team that did things the right way.