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Could be an entire lost fantasy week for Cook, Thielen, Jefferson, Henry, JJSS, Connor, Big Ben, Johnson, Janu, Watson, David Johnson, defenses, kickers, etc.
One year I think the NFL had 2 Bye Weeks in the season...1993 maybe? There was backlash about it.
Wonder what the league could possibly do to incentivize the Vikings to play this week if they are forced to miss 2 days of practice? Or maybe that was all already planned for and agreed to by the league in whatever contingency plan they created? They do have a contingency plan, right? RIGHT!?
If Min/Hou can’t go this week, the schedule is all kinds of screwed.
It seems like this way of handling outbreaks would create some serious incentive problems later in the season. Imagine it's Week 17 and the 49ers are clinging to a one-game lead in the division over Seattle, having already lost once to the Seahawks earlier in the season. Shockingly, a couple of guys on San Francisco's practice squad test positive, meaning that we have to cancel Seahaws-at-Niners so San Francisco now wins the division and gets an extra bye week before the playoffs begin.
Vikings were the Titans week 3 opponents. It is conceivable there is an outbreak among Vikings as well, as symptoms can take weeks to manifest even if an asymptomatic carrier.
"OK, Cam. You're going to start coughing uncontrollably under center once we're down 2 scores to the Chiefs next Sunday..."
Also, can we please not get this ####### thread locked and try to somewhat stick to the evidence/science?
absolutely nothing easy about it because this is almost certainly the 1st of many instances of this circumstance. then what?
I think it’s the initial response - but could be adjusted as things are assessed as the week goes on.
I believe I was clear that THIS particular scenario was relatively simple to fix, not that all of them are going to be. MIN/HOU getting cancelled certainly would not be easy to reschedule.
you were clear about that.
Nobody asked for my idea for a solution, but here it is anyway:
It could be more to keep people away so that they don't spread the virus if they have it but are not yet symptomatic.
What if three of those 10 are the QB and both backup QBs?
Nobody ever accused me of having the most thought-out thoughts!
Very fluid situation; if tracing starts showing a lot more infected then the game probably gets canceled/moved. If no more new infections, work on containing/tests but games go on. Things literally will change hour to hour.
Touché
The issue is asymptomatic spread. It’s why the pandemic is such a problem to contain in general.
Asymptomatic spread is unlikely. If a player has no symptoms, and tests negative, they should still be able to play. The issue is how this game will be handled in terms of practice time. I fully agree if anyone tests positive then they should be immediately away from the team and all players tested multiple times. I'm surprised this didn't happen earlier, I'm really hoping the testing today goes well.Touché
The issue is asymptomatic spread. It’s why the pandemic is such a problem to contain in general.
if someone has it and doesn’t know it, and the test doesn’t catch it, then they play football, everyone involved on both teams could conceivably get it.
That’s what an interruption of play would be attempting to avoid. It’s hard to apply simple solutions to complex problems.
There is a difference between "testing positive" and "manifesting symptoms". I believe it is the case that if you were exposed today, you should test positive in the next 3 to 5 days (assuming you were exposed sufficiently). Then as you point out, it might take another 7 to 14 days before you actually start showing symptoms. Or maybe 50-50 that you are positive but never show any symptoms, but can still be an asymptomatic carrier. Then given their overall health, presumably less than 5% of positives develop serious symptoms, with 0.1% chance of a fatality. For me personally, any time there is a situation where there is only a 1 in 1000 chance of dying, I tend to do everything I can to avoid that situation.
I think you are correct, but I really don’t want to get suspended again so I’ll make this topic about whatever Joe wantsit to be about.
https://forums.footballguys.com/forum/topic/789023-nfl-and-covid-issues-keep-it-100-nfl/?tab=comments#comment-22984006I think you are correct, but I really don’t want to get suspended again so I’ll make this topic about whatever Joe wantsit to be about.
This was a players out with covid thread but people asked me to change the title. Sorry for the confusion Joe. I should have left it alone
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He needs to hit someone, has all year. Let him. Put him in on GL or practice as a DE on PS ....I don't care just let him hit someone.
