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Why have forfeits at all? If games can’t be played or rescheduled, just don’t play them. End of the season, playoff spots are determined based on winning percentage. IMO, awarding teams wins and losses after the league’s inability to come up with an effective COVID policy seems unfair on any number of levels.
If at the end of the season TEN has 8 games they couldn't play and the NFL has a two week window to get all games played prior to the playoffs then it is the 'best' possible way to deal with that sort of problem. Right now TEN would have one of the highest winning percentages so if they don't play games and get rewarded for their winning percentage is that the 'best' solution for the rest of the league?
Tennessee has already burned their bye week, and is about to burn a second. It's literally impossible to reschedule the Titans game and end the season on time (pushing that back affects the Superbowl and years of planning).
To be fair, they're multiple individual cases where they can't contain the spread. We've already had teams play games with people on the COVID-IR because the trace/isolation contained the spread. The Titans were thought to have contained the spread but just got another case.
This part is really not a big deal and is the kind of thing virtually everyone has dealt with around covid.
Pats game today. Ok, technically it’s 2 cases this week, but first case was early in the week. It’s what, 5 days between positive tests. Doesn’t necessarily mean we have a team outbreak.
I could get on board with cancelled games not counting as wins/losses. Need some work on records though and playoff seeding. It's not right for Tennessee, hypothetically, to not play another game and finish the season with the #1 seed @ 3-0.
But the difference is those games are decided on the field by players not on a zoom call by 70+ year old billionaires.
For starters, ties count as half a win. So in your example, TEN would be 9.5 and 6.5. But the league doesn’t count missed games as ties. And the unwritten expectation is that the league will make more effort to reschedule games with potential playoff implications . . . meaning the Dolphins and Broncos game might fall of the schedule.
Hand Tennessee a L for every game they can't play thanks to their own stupidity.
Their isn't any hurry to deal out W/L. Suspend to the end of the year. Have a two week window to 'make-up' games. If a team has more than two suspended games then hand out W/L based on compliance with rules and winning percentage.
I don’t see how you can approach it any other way unless your league had a contingency plan in place before the season. I guess if your league unanimously votes something in during the season, you could make it work. Are commissioners expected to use lists from every owner every week? I’d be sending a list regardless of whether my players games on Sunday night or Monday night were in jeopardy or not. Never know when a positive case is going to pop up right? Seems like a nightmare either way, but messing with rules after the season starts seems like a bad idea.
For that reason I went from 1 to 3 IR spots (covid or not, doesn't matter) and also made WR/TE one position so you're not hurt as bad of your TE is out. I guess I never gave much thought to a game being cancelled.
Then what about the teams they already played? They could have potentially infected Minnesota (even though they didn't) bit the threat was there. Why does Minny get a loss then? And their week 1 and 2 opponents as well. Why should they get a loss?
I get what you're saying, but the optics of the Titans having their "secret" practice(s) when they were supposed to be isolating from each other, and a second "set" of positive cases a week or so later looks bad.
But 3 cases within the incubation period. So no, they didn’t affect a game over just one case.
This is too far reaching, they'll play again and many more games. Cmon now.
I've been expecting this since April/May and I don't understand why everyone didn't.
What an absolute cluster#### this season is.
By those standards, the Chiefs have an outbreak, too. And didn't Mahomes hug an infected player?
Nobody was supposed to be in the building for 2 weeks other than yesterday’s practice, right? So the key is, has he had close contact with anyone else recently? There were reports that some individuals weren’t wearing their trackers at times. If that’s true, do we really know who he came into close contact with?
They should add a week 18-19, move the games from weeks 15-17 to there and spread out a 2nd bye for all teams.
The league I co-commish decided not to play this year. If it had, I would have strongly pushed for best ball for this season only.
I had read on Twitter that Gilmore and Newton had dinner together during the week
Not one of them has been positive so it's solely about rule breaking and informing of rules.
This post right here is enough to possibly get me to move Henry back into my lineups. Because right now I'm ready to ####### scream.
I agree, but do it before Thursday, otherwise teams who had players that they didn't start have less options. I email/texted the commish on Tues and Wed to let people put provisionals in and got no where. It shouldn't happen now.
Because they were able to play the game.
It's reading to me like they're showing the world they're following rules and not something to cancel the game.
I am speculating here, but *if* players/staff didn't wear their tracers for some period of time, by this point in the PR game I would think they have been told to come clean with where they've been and to participate in truthful sincere story telling to fill in the gap of missing time, or that they can face suspension and or termination.
Not to beat a dead horse, but baseball dropped 100 games off their schedule, played an uneven amount of games, and had some teams play doubleheaders almost everyday for two weeks. Basketball and hockey had some teams not even finish out their seasons and then had to sequester teams in bubbles. I am pretty sure the last thing on the NFL’s mind or priority list is worrying about fairness at the end of the season in terms of who gets to rest prior to the playoffs. As it is, only two teams will earn a bye for the playoffs, so the huge majority of teams would not get a week off before the playoffs start anyway. This is likely item 1,001 on their list of Top 1,000 things the league has to worry about.
I think I’m leaving Henry in on the teams I’m absolutely desperate on right now and sitting Allen and Diggs for other decent options. Would love more info before noon, but it’s all about ones risk.
