Boatdrinks Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 On 3/29/2020 at 4:08 PM, transplantbillsfan said: Didn't see this posted. Mods can merge or delete if it was He's in California working with Jordan Palmer alongside Sam Darnold and Kyle Allen. Gotta think Palmer is really heavily invested in the success of these 3 QBs this year especially since he's probably not working much with other rookie QBs https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/josh-allen-in-quarantine-with-sam-darnold-kyle-allen/ar-BB11SjEp Josh Allen in quarantine with Sam Darnold, Kyle Allen Sports Illustrated’s Albert Breer highlights that Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen is engaging in a self-quarantine with New York Jets quarterback Sam Darnold and Washington quarterback Kyle Allen. The group is working with quarterback coach Jordan Palmer and former USC quarterback Matt Lopes. “The quarterbacks wake up every day and, because all the parks and fields around them are shut down, go throw on the beach by Darnold’s house. After that, they’ll go back to the house, eat lunch, play cards, watch TV, play some more cards and eventually watch movies at night. The biggest problems, really, are losing the chance to work with the rehab guy they’d been using, and fighting boredom.” For cripes sake, he’s not in quarantine ! Self - isolating perhaps, but I don’t think there’s been any news saying that Allen has Coronavirus symptoms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thurman#1 Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 (edited) The OP posted a third-generation report, a story by Justin DeLoro that was in turn about another story by Michael Shapiro which was yet again a story about a third story, by Albert Breer. What you get with third-generation stories is confusion. Which is why when you post something like this you should go to the original story and post from that. I'm putting excerpts from the original story below. It's an interesting one, about coronavirus and its effects on football. "Amid America’s coronavirus crisis, NFL players aren’t exactly the most afflicted, but as is the case for basically all of us, life has become considerably more complicated for them. Allen, who was traded from Carolina to Washington, is just another example, holed up in what amounts to a QB quarantine in Orange County (yes, there are worse places to be stuck), with a lease set to expire in a few days. “ 'I might have to crash at Sam’s,' [Kyle] Allen said Wednesday morning. "Sam is Jets quarterback Sam Darnold, and the two of them, plus Bills quarterback Josh Allen, make up this particular cluster who happened to be together when everything changed two weeks ago. They’ve been there since the Super Bowl, in what’s basically a developmental retreat with their throwing coach Jordan Palmer, an hour South of Los Angeles. "And until two weeks ago, that was going as you might expect. Each quarterback got his work in, and they got their downtime too, as part of a process most NFL players go through this time of year in slowly ramping up to their teams’ offseason programs in April. "Now? Now, it seems certain those offseason programs will be at least abbreviated, if not called off all together. In fact, even starting training camp on time in late July/early August isn’t a sure thing, and everything between now and then is in question. Everyone’s adjusting as such, because, really, no one has a choice. Allen certainly has had to, more so than most others. But his story, given the circumstances, isn’t that unusual." https://www.si.com/nfl/2020/03/26/nfl-player-offseason-coronavirus-kyle-allen Then there's a bunch about how Kyle Allen got there. There's an interesting bit about fitness plans for guys who don't want to go to public gyms: "But both of these older guys, and most other NFL players, have gotten road maps from their teams. The Chiefs’ strength coaches sent their guys two separate plans: one a dumbbell-based program for guys who do have a weight-room setup at home, and one a body-weight centered workout for those who don’t. The 49ers took similar measures, and even sent their guys ways to buy discounted weight-room equipment, if they want to buy stuff. A note about Josh and Kyle Allen's lease on the house there: "The plan, before all this, [for Kyle] had been to go to Charlotte next week when the lease on the Orange County house he’s renting with Josh Allen expires. That, obviously, is out the window now. He thought about going home to Arizona instead, but that doesn’t work either. Someone at his mom’s work got COVID-19, so she’s in a 14-day quarantine now, and going there would mean entering a new quarantine." ... some more from Kyle's POV .... "For now, he’ll stay in the seven-person quarantine he’s in. He, Josh Allen and their girlfriends are in the one house; Darnold’s in a house he just bought 15 minutes away; and Darnold’s USC teammate Matt Lopes (who’s now working in the Trojans’ football program) is working with the group too, as is Palmer. "As it is, the quarterbacks wake up every day and, because all the parks and fields around them are shut down, go throw on the beach by Darnold’s house—something Allen sees benefit in, in that it forces you to throw from your core. After that, they go lift, which is also a little complicated. The gym they’d worked out of is closed, so their trainer found a friend with a weight setup in what Allen says is a “40-square-foot garage” that they can use. After that, they’ll go back to the house, eat lunch, play cards, watch TV, play some more cards and eventually watch movies at night. The biggest problems, really, are losing the chance to work with the rehab guy they’d been using, and fighting boredom. “This is really how we lived anyway,” Allen said. “It’s just 24/7 now. It’s an interesting time. You talk to some people, and they’ll say the football part of it is similar to the lockout year, we might have nothing until camp. And maybe we’ll look around the league in August, and there’ll be some teams that took advantage of the time, and some teams that didn’t. That’s the most interesting part. “What happens to OTAs? Training camp, maybe that’ll only be four weeks.” "But all of that’s still a long way off. Of more immediate concern is where all these guys will be next week. Josh Allen’s looked into the idea of going back to where he grew up, near Fresno, or even to Buffalo. Kyle Allen’s looking into Airbnb’s close by. "And if all else fails, there’s always Darnold’s couch." The article's very good. This is about 30% of it. The stuff about how the virus is affecting the league is also worth a look, IMO. Edited March 31, 2020 by Thurman#1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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