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Yeah, and MLB has postoponed 41 games so far. How many bye weeks do you think the NFL has built into its schedule? Even if it was only one game there is a very good chance the two teams that were supposed to play in week 4 don't have the same bye week anyway.
MLB will make up every game if needed. So will the NFL. MLB found a way. NFL will find a way if needed. It's really not that complicated. I'm sure they have a plan for it all and I don't need to know what it is. The NFL has dealt with missed games and weeks before.
They haven't started yet.
MLB players travel 1-2 times every week. They travel much more than 8 times per year.
like the other posts, I don't comment on the ridiculous and made up fears you guys have.
MLB travels 20 staff? They also dont have 30 on the active roster.
MLB had 30 to start the season. Was reduced to 28 on the 15th day.
Cannot wait. If you'd told me 8 weeks ago, we'd be sitting right where we are today, I'd say this is the absolute best case scenario for where we'd be.2 days from kickoff
Baseball and Football do not travel the same way. Football is much more regimented and teams will travel in the day before, stay in a hotel together, and leave immediately after the game. There are not 4 day road trips in football where guys can go out at night and get in trouble.
This is from a few years ago but the number has been trending up......Getzlaf15 said:
I'm just guessing but I would say that the owners are worried that because they will have so much less cap space in 2021 they won't be able to use the threat of the franchise tag as effectively in negotiations next season. If you sign a guy to a big deal now in 2020 you can structure it in such a way to make the smallest cap hit in 2021 and a much bigger cap hit in 2022/2023/etc. Besides, once a guy is under contract for multi-years it seems like most players don't mind shifting the money around to open up team cap space just as long as they don't lose any money in the deal.
Good points all around.
I don’t remember the details, and the league likely can’t adequately calculate all the lost revenue yet. But it was estimated teams were projected to lose $70-100M. The league and the players union agreed that the most the salary cap would decrease next year was $23M and the remainder would be deducted from future seasons. The point being, there will be salary cap limitations for multiple years beyond next season. Maybe some of that will come out of the next TV deal. But there will still be salary cap reconfigurations for several more years.
Yeah, I agree with all that. I'm just saying the owners are used to dealing from a position of ultimate strength with franchise tags and the like and they fear losing star players.
I was sick of it already last night. And to reiterate, it's not the players I have a problem with, it's the announcers commenting on it and lecturing us about our politics/experiences.
Agreed. Trying to watch a football game here. The whole point of watching sports is to sort of detach from life/responsibilities for a little bit and enjoy a few hours of your time. At least it is for most anyone I talk to.
i agree. i’ve stopped watching only because i’m a jet fan, but can i have 3 hours without being lectured on the evils of this country? i actually like the teams staying inside for the anthem. this was my suggestion years ago. play the stupid anthem 1 hour before game time and let’s move on.
So far so good. I hope that I was wrong.
Does anyone know if it was a full contact practice he participated in on Friday.... or was it just a walk-through? Seems like if it was just a walk through they may have all been wearing masks, right?
So far the league has said the TEN / PIT game is still on, as is the MIN / HOU game (the Vikings also can't practice this week).
There was a discussion in the sharkpool about false positives and I was surprised the rate of false positives "should be close to zero". But in this context I'm not sure how reassured I am according to this Harvard Medical School website....
Wasn't my call on the Week 3 thing. I could see them moving the game back to even Tuesday if limited to the initial three players.
I expect the league will have to evaluate each situation on a case by case basis. For example, if a team has 6 positive cases and they are all offensive lineman, that is different than one guy out from six different position groups. I can’t see the league forcing a team to play with one starting O lineman, 2 guys without any experience from the practice squad, and signing 2 street free agents and having guys play out of position. Or forcing a team to play if they don’t have a QB. Guess we will have to see what situations pop up in the upcoming weeks.
I doubt it comes to this, but you understand they would do it by percentage, and not wins, right?
I give you credit for thinking something bigger would happen around Week 4. But don't you get tired of being Chicken Little? You're taking a HUGE leap from 4 players on a team to multiple teams missing a month of games.
Don't think they had playoffs like we do now, but almost all the years in the NFL from 1920 into the 30's had uneven number of games played.
The league determines team outcomes based on winning percentage, not number of wins. So a team missing 4 games (which at this point seems unlikely) would not have to win all their games to make the playoffs. 9-3 would be a better winning percentage than 11-5 (and thus would rank higher in determining playoff seeding).
If a team wins their 1st game and then ties the next 15 games, do they make the playoffs? Do they get a bye?
The team would get credit for 1 win plus 7.5 wins for the ties. Each tie counts as half a win. It would be the equivalent of going 8.5-7.5 (so a winning percentage of .531). That certainly would not be good enough to get a bye (given that only one team gets a bye these days). Who knows if that would be good enough to make the playoffs.
