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Ministry of Pain said:
There's a reason flu season is in winter. Lower humidity dries out the nasal passages and makes people far more susceptible to catching it. Haven't seen anything to say covid is going to be any different. Politics has nothing to do with it.Dr. Octopus said:
Do we have dates on these? The one was Sept 30 correct? If that is the end of it, we should be done with new positive tests.
If only the NFL had some scientists that could help with all this stuff.
I think that is being overly generous to Tennessee. They intentionally circumvented the rules after they already had 10+ positive tests including coaches and staff. No other team has had a situation nearly as severe as the one in Tennessee prior to 9/30 and they still ignored the rules. Not to mention the reports that they were not wearing masks and contact trackers prior.
And yet when I react to the NFL plans that are publicly announced you tell me that I'm acting like I know everything that's happening behind closed doors.
This sounds like the kind of thing that gets floated so as to make the official punishment sound like a middle-of-the-road approach. Just a guess.
Godsbrother said:
there’s no crying in football
Where did I say not to punish them? Of course they should be punished. I'm just not on board with forfeits which many have been calling for. No amount of protocols instituted by the NFL can completely control this virus. Yes the Titans were incredibly stupid and should be penalized but they were also unlucky as well.
In 2012 the NFL reduced the salary cap for both the Cowboys and Washington as punishment for frontloading contracts during the uncapped year. The reduced amount was then distributed to the rest of the teams in the league as additional cap space. So there is at least precedence for it.
Does that matter? If someone drives drunk and kills a 6 year old kid is "a lot of people drive drunk and just get lucky that there weren't any kids near the road at the time" an adequate defense?
Nope and that isn't what I was trying to say. I've clarified already that the Titans should be punished.
The Strunks are billionaires. A $10 million fine is the equivalent of $1000 to most regular people. A multi-million fine is little more than a parking ticket to NFL teams and owners. If the point of a harsh punishment is to hit them hard and make them think about what they did, the money part of it isn’t really a big deterrent, even if it was the largest fine in league history.
And yet they haven’t done a thing about the Titans/Bills yet? Makes no sense unless they think it’s more likely than not it won’t be played this week (or maybe holding out hope for Tuesday).
I can live with a Tuesday game against a short handed opponent with the next game on Sunday. Not ideal, but ok.
Ouch. I think I’d go Brady. The difference between his projection and Allen’s can’t possibly offset the chance the game doesn’t get played.
Godsbrother said:
I wonder if there is a caveat to the plan of moving the Bills/Chiefs back to Thursday about when the positives occur? What if the Titans all test negative the next few days but then test positive Monday morning? Surely they wouldn’t then move the Bills/Chiefs to Thursday at that point giving the Bills only 2 days to prep, right?
If you give the Titans a loss, but do not assign a corresponding win to another team, is that still a forfeit, or does the NFL need to come up with a new term for this?
That's fine. I don't particularly want my team to get a forfeit win. I just don't want them to get boned because of some other team's screw-up.
You would like to think that the league has already made this decision and just isn't making it public. But this is the NFL so who knows.
Quoting this to make it 6th hand.
