The Man With No Name
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Rain and snow forecast for Sunday. That should help
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Soulfly3
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right. but the line didnt move at all after our LT, RG, LB and 5 WRs were ruled out. bets didnt shift it
The Man With No Name
Footballguy
Browns put Bryant, Sendejo on COVID-19 list
Bracie Smathers
Footballguy
Put the team in a GD bubble because they can't seem to protect themselves. Make it a strongly hinted 'choice' to participate in the bubble and anyone who doesn't want to check into a hotel can be isolated so this doesn't keep spreading.
"Gentleman, Redwine here may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot."
We had all sorts of communication problems against the Jets. Redwine is clueless and was so far out of position, had no idea how to handle pick plays, we need Sendejo more than people realize. He's the quarterback of the DBs, get people lined up where they should be. He's slow and lacks athleticism but we need his football IQ because Redwine to paraphrase Groucho Marx.
"Gentleman, Redwine here may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot."
Godsbrother
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A hypothetical: what would the NFL do if enough Browns tested positive or had close contact that they could not safely take the field on Sunday?
1. Reschedule as soon as enough players were cleared to take the field. Too bad if Steelers and Browns have short weeks for start of playoffs
2. Cancel the game and just go by winning percentage and tiebreakers
3. Give Browns a forfeit
I think they would likely re-schedule for Monday if possible but if it went any later in the week they would just cancel the game. There is no way I could see the NFL make Cleveland forfeit.
beer 30
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Move the game to Mon-Tue. Only reasonable answer. They can't cancel unless the whole team comes down with it and a forfeit isn't in the cards for the NFL this year. They made the Bronco's use a WR as QB and I'm not sure that's the floor. It's just all we have to go by so far.
Pretty much anything from Great Lakes Brewing imo.
Godsbrother
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JoeSteeler
Footballguy
Not as much as Rudolph will lolThe Man With No Name said:
JoeSteeler
Footballguy
With a forfeit neither team gets paid from what I understand...not going to happen
Bracie Smathers
Footballguy
Precedent has been set. They'd reschedule just as they did with Baltimore when they couldn't field a team.
Considering the circumstances whoever wins this game will slink away with a hollow victory.
Soulfly3
Footballguy
Two player positive tests in Cleveland today.
One player positive today was from a player who has been in isolation but was in close contact to someone outside the building.
The four WRs out last week are expected to rejoin the team once it can practice as early as today.
-Schefter
eta: He didnt say it, but 99% sure the player in iso who tested positive, would mean Sendejo or Bryant
One player positive today was from a player who has been in isolation but was in close contact to someone outside the building.
The four WRs out last week are expected to rejoin the team once it can practice as early as today.
-Schefter
eta: He didnt say it, but 99% sure the player in iso who tested positive, would mean Sendejo or Bryant
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GroveDiesel
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Anybody run the playoff scenarios if the league cancels the Browns/Steelers game? 
Soulfly3
Footballguy
they arent going to cancel it. they'll either make the browns play w whoever they have, or postpone...Anybody run the playoff scenarios if the league cancels the Browns/Steelers game?
precedent has already been set. and isnt there a week 18 plan in place (or did that not actually go thru, hard to keep track)
GroveDiesel
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The NFL has postponed games involving teams with ongoing outbreaks pretty consistently. So it partly depends on if the Browns keep having positive cases every day or not. If they do continue to have positive cases, I can’t see how they postpone the game beyond Monday. Having either team play Tuesday or beyond and then play a Sunday playoff game seems awfully questionable. Maybe I’m wrong though and they me go ahead and force the issue. Would be a huge advantage to whatever teams would be playing one of those teams in the playoffs.
Certainly a crappy time for an outbreak to occur.
GroveDiesel
Footballguy
I think that was only ever going to happen if they planned it early on and had a number of games that needed to be made up. I can’t imagine they’ll push the entire playoffs back, including teams waiting around to figure out whether or not they’re even IN the playoffs and teams unable to start preparing for their next opponent, just for one game.
This game could end up being the one game where Covid REALLY screws things up.
Bracie Smathers
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Mike Clay@MikeClayNFL
The Steelers are averaging 3.0 offensive TDs per game this season (11th highest).
They averaged 1.6 per game without Big Ben for most of 2019 (1.6 would rank 30th this season)
The league won't cancel unless its for health/safety reasons.
They will do nothing to respond to competitive advantage.
NFL won't consider competitive advantage in COVID-19 schedule changes
Its a CYA policy where they will avoid any potential risk of forcing players to play a game where they can contract COVID. They don't care about anything other than 'risk' of contraction which could get them sued.
Two new POSITIVE cases. We don't know if any players came into contact with those players will be listed as CONTACT risks.
Godsbrother
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If the NFL postponed this game beyond Monday they will have to move any playoff games these teams are involved in as well. You can’t have a team play on Tuesday or Wednesday and expect them to be ready for the playoffs on a Sunday
ghostguy123
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The Man With No Name
Footballguy
Harrison Bryant too, along with Malcolm Smith
amnesiac
beer is good
DallasDMac
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amnesiac
beer is good
Godsbrother
Footballguy
I’m not sure why it would be a problem playing a playoff game on a Monday but they have been screwing the Steelers all season due to other teams mishaps so it wouldn’t surprise me they would continue to do so in the playoffs
amnesiac
beer is good
Remember the year the Steelers won the Super Bowl as a wildcard?
this year doesn’t have the same feeling with all the whining about all the “getting screwed over” talk.
Godsbrother
Footballguy
You’re right, it doesn’t. I don’t recall the NFL screwing around with their schedule that year.
I don’t think it’s too much to ask the game to be played at the scheduled time or if they can’t, to delay their playoff game by one day and play it on a Monday.
Hopefully it won’t come down to that
Bracie Smathers
Footballguy
No way the team with our starting LT and starting RG and four WRs loses to the Jets, on the tarmac it all imploded.
We need Wyatt Teller, that kid Harris got 'blowed-up real good'. You cannot run a our zone if a player gets destroyed.
Losing Denzel hurts especially without Zendeho directing traffic. Redwine cost us last week. Harrison is back.
Hearing smug projections how Mason Rudolph will rub it in the Browns faces. Mmmkay. We'll see.
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Pete Smith@_PeteSmith_
I doubt Myles will admit it, but Mason's in trouble.
amnesiac
beer is good
it depends on the opponent.
I could envision a scenario where the Browns could win a shootout.
Ghost Rider
Footballguy
Is Garrett gonna club him over the head with a weapon again?Bracie Smathers said:
Bracie Smathers
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Pete Smith@_PeteSmith_
It won't just be Myles. The rest of that DLine is going to try to get their voices heard on the matter for him.
Brian Skutle Jan 5 Ga Runoffs@skutlelemur
I wonder how many throwaways he’ll try if Myles is after him.
GroveDiesel
Footballguy
Stefanski is making Garrett a team captain for the game this week so he can be out there for the coin toss.
I feel like teams that play little games like that almost always seem to end up regretting it.
rockaction
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Back in to say that Myles Garrett should be embarrassed -- as should the Browns -- and further trying to rehabilitate his image and his own self rather than saying that "one play doesn't define a career" and the Browns naming him honorary captain. Love to see the Steelers hang a big one on the Browns this week, but it's not going to happen. Too bad.
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