Current Events > Cam Newton has the rona smh

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16 titans also have it
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And it begins. Timeline is about right too. Few weeks into the season, can't say i'm surprised. There's probably going to be a lot more.

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I wonder if Bill Belichick has it now.

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Trump brought football back

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not sure how the patriots game cam still happen...

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Just realized they aren't even postponing the Chiefs game yet. Patrick Mahomes is at risk.

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was the nfl at least smart enough to build an extra week (or even two) into the end of the season for makeup games? no one actually needs to answer that.

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The Patriots were supposed to fly out soon but are now delayed and awaiting word from the NFL what to do.
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there's no way this game gets played. they're probably just working through some protocol

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Halo478 posted...

16 titans also have it

i don't feel bad for fig newton. he owes me a TV.
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seems like the game is postponed now

https://www.nfl.com/news/patriots-chiefs-game-postponed-after-multiple-positive-covid-19-tests

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Is he a republican?

I'm an Alabama fan, should I be happy?

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The Titans threw positive tests as recently as yesterday. They were able to reschedule Titans-Steelers easily by swapping around the Ravens as well, but if the Titans don't stop throwing positives immediately, they play the Bills next Sunday, then the Bills host the Chiefs that Thursday. There's no room to move that game around, which would create a critical scheduling problem(and, given that both teams are currently 3-0 and made the playoffs last year, it likely has vital seeding implications).

Really, the NFL needs to at least push back the post-season and create a COVID week to make sure it can catch some of these. If the problem worsens, we're looking at needing a stoppage. They never took this as seriously as the other leagues and the other leagues encountered serious issues, this was really only a matter of time.

This NFL season should have been done with the players playing Madden instead. (Pick the best gamer out of their team)

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I predicted week 5 would be when games stop. looking good so far

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Can't they just use scab players or even some fans to play the game?

Any game is better than no game.

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This week is starting to feel a lot like that week in March when all this shit started to get real (Tom Hanks getting it, NBA postponing the season, etc)

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Medussa posted...

was the nfl at least smart

The answer to this question is almost always no.

They had more time than any other sports league to come up with a solution and they basically punted on it (pun intended). Having robust testing protocols is purely reactive, not proactive in the least. So players becoming infected was inevitable. And they even fucked up their reactive-only strategy because they didn't actually build in a reactive solution to the inevitability of players getting infected and games getting postponed. Rescheduling one postponed game is doable. But each additional postponement is an exponentially harder problem to solve.

Having a designated make-up game week at the mid-point and end of the season would go a long way towards making it manageable, but nope. Lets not plan for that all.

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