NFL: "We Plan to Start on Time" - 17-Week Schedules to Be Released Thursday, 8pm ET on NFL Network

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

32 minutes ago, Mike in Horseheads said:

You live in Jersey Joe, wtf do you care about Michigan?

 

I live in a state with a harsher lockdown than Michigan's. That's why I care.

 

[Cripple Creek]

1 hour ago, Joe in Winslow said:

 

Have a gander at non locked down Sweden versus the totalitarian paradise that is Michigan.

Well, looking who is shilling for universal healthcare. Who woulda thunk it? 

[plenzmd1]

4 hours ago, Brianmoorman4jesus said:

I love the schedule release day so much. Usually it’s got a lot to do with what games il be going to, (this year might not matter) but it’s still great. 

so do I . Was traveling last year, layover in Atlanta for a couple hours( damn i could use a nice 2 hour layover in the ATL right about now). Between here and twitter, everyone had the the Thanksgiving game nailed...really nice bartender bet $20, as he could not conceive the NFL would put the Bills on Thanksgiving day, got my Venmo during the flight! Awesome!

3 hours ago, Gugny said:

 

I think they'll start late (weeks, not months), play a full season and have no fans until next season.

 

3 hours ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:

Not happening guys. I'm not sure why anyone wants football with no fans anyways. I'm hoping they postpone the start of the season.

 

My guess is an October start. NBA possibly starting in December. I think the NFL should consider starting in December.

Why do you guys think this? I think by then we will have learned to deal with the risk, have some other therapeutics etc, so i see no disruption at all.

 

Having said that, Fauci and Birx and other experts have all univesally agreed there will be a "summer break" from the virus, but a second wave will prolly coincide with flu season..which starts in late October. So what does not playing in September gain ? Why start up right when this thing is supposed to return? 

 

Said in the other thread, if what Fauci says is true, should start training camp early July, stary season mid August...have contingency plans if need to shut down for 4 weeks in December or soemthing

59 minutes ago, HappyDays said:

 

This thread is quickly getting off topic so this is my last post on the subject. I highly recommend you read this article to see the consequences of that decision:

 

https://www.newsweek.com/sweden-coronavirus-rate-1501250

 

As for the topic at hand... there is practically no chance the NFL will have a season with fans in the stands. But I still believe they will find a way to have some kind of season. There's too much money at stake for everyone involved. The NFL is creative, they'll figure something out. I can envision games played at a few select empty stadiums where the "home" team has virtual fans that show up on the jumbotron. The NFL should talk to Atlanta to see about pumping noise into the stadiums.

I thnk just the opposite..no way there are NOT fans in the stands

[Buffalo_Stampede]

I don't really understand the anger. Who are people actually angry at? I don't even think they know. 

[plenzmd1]

1 minute ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:

I don't really understand the anger. Who are people actually angry at? I don't even think they know. 

Ill tell who I am angry at...the wimp ass College Presidents that chose to ruin my first empty nest year and glorious peace of mind by sending my awful children back home. No back bone on any of em!?

[Buffalo_Stampede]

7 minutes ago, plenzmd1 said:

 

 

Why do you guys think this? I think by then we will have learned to deal with the risk, have some other therapeutics etc, so i see no disruption at all.

 

Having said that, Fauci and Birx and other experts have all univesally agreed there will be a "summer break" from the virus, but a second wave will prolly coincide with flu season..which starts in late October. So what does not playing in September gain ? Why start up right when this thing is supposed to return? 

I said they should start in December. I think they'll start in October though. The reason I believe they should postpone the season until December is to see how the 2nd wave impacts the country. 

1 minute ago, plenzmd1 said:

Ill tell who I am angry at...the wimp ass College Presidents that chose to ruin my first empty nest year and glorious peace of mind by sending my awful children back home. No back bone on any of em!?

None of them caused COVID-19.

[plenzmd1]

1 minute ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:

I said they should start in December. I think they'll start in October though. The reason I believe they should postpone the season until December is to see how the 2nd wave impacts the country. 

None of them caused COVID-19.

doesnt matter, they are still wimps and i will FOREVER hate them for closing schools down! ( just being sarcastic BTW)

[LittleSammy]

4 hours ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:

Not happening guys. I'm not sure why anyone wants football with no fans anyways. I'm hoping they postpone the start of the season.

 

My guess is an October start. NBA possibly starting in December. I think the NFL should consider starting in December.

If this happens, give me a call and you can have my tickets to the Sunday game that will get pushed back to February. Despite what Marv says, there is another place I'd rather be "right here and right now" vs. sitting in my seat at New Era at 11 pm on a Sunday night with a wind chill of -30 degrees. Damn virus!

[Hapless Bills Fan]

1 hour ago, Joe in Winslow said:

 

I live in a state with a harsher lockdown than Michigan's. That's why I care.

 

 

If you want to discuss measures Sweden has taken and results vs. other European countries etc, take it to one of the Covid-19 discussion threads - connection to football too tenuous.

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

3 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

 

If you want to discuss measures Sweden has taken and results vs. other European countries etc, take it to one of the Covid-19 discussion threads - connection to football too tenuous.

 

Meh, It'd only be moved/censored/deleted in one of those.

[BigdaddyinOrlando]

That’s awesome, but I’m guessing that they delayed the release a month to shuffle some dates so that say the first month is without fans and that each team is playing at home the same amount of times before projected fan attendance will be allowed. I wouldn’t be shocked if each team plays an even alternating schedule of one week home one week away. JMO

[machine gun kelly]

5 hours ago, Gugny said:

 

Go get an edible and lighten up, Francis!

Uncle Hulka?  Are you the big toe?  Great movie.  Have you been convicted of a crime? Convicted?  Convicted?  No, no convictions.

[mead107]

Screw the season.   Skip a year. 
I’m scared to many idiots will come tailgate with the c-19 as the virus spikes. 
like Cuomo said (and I saw his chart) it could be 5 times worse. 
 

?????

[Buffalo_Stampede]

39 minutes ago, LittleSammy said:

If this happens, give me a call and you can have my tickets to the Sunday game that will get pushed back to February. Despite what Marv says, there is another place I'd rather be "right here and right now" vs. sitting in my seat at New Era at 11 pm on a Sunday night with a wind chill of -30 degrees. Damn virus!

https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/buffalo/14202/february-weather/349726

[The Wiz]

4 hours ago, JohnnyGold said:

 

We should execute every last one of them to stop them from dying of Corona!!!!!!!

Technically that would reduce the amount of deaths from covid. 

[Mr Info]

I am just throwing out crazy ideas while drinking.

 

The second game is home vs Pats*. 
 

A few days before the game, a + testing asymptomatic coronavirus mob of Pats* fans declares they are buying tix to the Bills game to deter Bills fans from attending.

 

Bills Mafia gets together a mob of Bills fans testing + for Coronavirus antibodies to meet the swell of Pats* fans. 

[Hapless Bills Fan]

1 hour ago, plenzmd1 said:

Having said that, Fauci and Birx and other experts have all univesally agreed there will be a "summer break" from the virus, but a second wave will prolly coincide with flu season..which starts in late October. So what does not playing in September gain ? Why start up right when this thing is supposed to return?

 

I musta missed this part.  Got a few sources that could help me catch up?  Maybe throw 'em in one of the covid-19 threads.  What I've seen is more along the lines of "we've seen this wave pattern with pandemic influenza, so we think maybe covid-19 will do the same, even though we acknowledge a bunch of significant differences and we lack info on whether summer will shut it down.

 

 

 

 

[plenzmd1]

25 minutes ago, Mr Info said:

I am just throwing out crazy ideas while drinking.

 

The second game is home vs Pats*. 
 

A few days before the game, a + testing asymptomatic coronavirus mob of Pats* fans declares they are buying tix to the Bills game to deter Bills fans from attending.

 

Bills Mafia gets together a mob of Bills fans testing + for Coronavirus antibodies to meet the swell of Pats* fans. 

you  sure you are having Mezcal and not Mescalin ?

[Hapless Bills Fan]

1 hour ago, Joe in Winslow said:

 

Meh, It'd only be moved/censored/deleted in one of those.

 

Horsefeathers, y'all have PPP with as many opinions as you like, moderated only of the most extreme stuff.

 

[plenzmd1]

2 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

 

I musta missed this part.  Got a few sources that could help me catch up?

 

 

 

 

i mean its implied everywhere where he/they say...will come back kin the fall/winter for a 2nd wave no?

 

https://www.foxcarolina.com/another-wave-of-coronavirus-will-likely-hit-the-us-in-the-fall-heres-why-and/article_70074db9-abf2-50e6-ac57-9cab3ba36220.html

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2020-04-30/fauci-is-almost-certain-virus-will-return-in-winter-is-optimistic-about-a-vaccine-video

 

https://thehill.com/changing-america/resilience/natural-disasters/495211-fauci-says-second-wave-of-coronavirus-is

 

"I’m almost certain it will come back. The virus is so transmissible and it’s globally spread,” Fauci said, 

[Mr Info]

4 minutes ago, plenzmd1 said:

"I’m almost certain it will come back. The virus is so transmissible and it’s globally spread,” Fauci said, 

it will be interesting to see if he changes this position due to the relaxation of coronavirus restrictions in many states.

Perhaps that was based on an assumption of tighter lockdowns & distancing. With relaxation, maybe the C19 downward trends represent a slowly declining plateau rather than a bell curve for the initial wave. Thus, there might not be a second wave.

[Hapless Bills Fan]

12 minutes ago, plenzmd1 said:

i mean its implied everywhere where he/they say...will come back kin the fall/winter for a 2nd wave no?

 

https://www.foxcarolina.com/another-wave-of-coronavirus-will-likely-hit-the-us-in-the-fall-heres-why-and/article_70074db9-abf2-50e6-ac57-9cab3ba36220.html

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2020-04-30/fauci-is-almost-certain-virus-will-return-in-winter-is-optimistic-about-a-vaccine-video

 

https://thehill.com/changing-america/resilience/natural-disasters/495211-fauci-says-second-wave-of-coronavirus-is

 

"I’m almost certain it will come back. The virus is so transmissible and it’s globally spread,” Fauci said, 

 

I guess it depends upon what you look at when you read?  Bottom link (The Hill):

“In my mind, it’s inevitable that we will have a return of the virus or maybe it never went away,” he added. 

 

Don't have time to listen to the Bloomburg interview, and don't do Fox, sorry.

 

I mean, I think overall Fauci believes that covid-19 will be seasonal because influenza is seasonal, but all the experts (including Fauci) acknowledge that there are emerging significant differences in covid-19 transmission patterns vs. flu transmission patterns (duration of presymptomatic period, number of asymptomatic but infectious people, etc) and that evidence of seasonality in this type of coronaviruses is slight.

 

Maybe we'll get super-lucky and it'll do a SARS on us, but the differences between covid-19 and SARS transmission suggest we not bet the rent

 

 

 

[Gugny]

9 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:

Maybe we'll get super-lucky and it'll do a SARS on us, but the differences between covid-19 and SARS transmission suggest we not bet the rent

 

Please 'splain.

[atlbillsfan1975]

All the gloom and doom posters, let me guess MSNBC, CNN, and the New York Times have made you all experts?

 

Good for the NFL on planning to start on time. We need more people planning on things getting back to normal and less fear based over reaction. 

[Logic]

52 minutes ago, atlbillsfan1975 said:

All the gloom and doom posters, let me guess MSNBC, CNN, and the New York Times have made you all experts?

 

Good for the NFL on planning to start on time. We need more people planning on things getting back to normal and less fear based over reaction. 

 

Only listening to Fox News qualifies you to be an expert on COVID, everybody knows that.

[Meatloaf63]

4 hours ago, HappyDays said:

 

This thread is quickly getting off topic so this is my last post on the subject. I highly recommend you read this article to see the consequences of that decision:

 

https://www.newsweek.com/sweden-coronavirus-rate-1501250

 

As for the topic at hand... there is practically no chance the NFL will have a season with fans in the stands. But I still believe they will find a way to have some kind of season. There's too much money at stake for everyone involved. The NFL is creative, they'll figure something out. I can envision games played at a few select empty stadiums where the "home" team has virtual fans that show up on the jumbotron. The NFL should talk to Atlanta to see about pumping noise into the stadiums.

The death rate is impossible to know unless widespread testing is completed. As several studies around our own country have shown, the infection rate is 50 times greater than the known infections. The rate in Sweden will not vary much from ours which is in itself over inflated due to the bogus change in the way the CDC has told Dr’s how to classify deaths. Sweden is trying to get immunity for all the healthy people so the older an those with co morbidities are surrounded by people that can’t spread the disease. If it works it’s a great plan, they didn’t destroy their economy as we did. Our plan doesn’t stop the death, it just spreads it out. 

[Mickey]

4 hours ago, Mr. WEO said:

What is Michigan doing that NY hasn't done?  What did I miss?

 

Anyway, it's not surprising.  Universities are coming out now saying they are planning full Fall semester on time.

 

 

My spouse and I both teach some classes to two different large universities in addition to our regular jobs and though the are planning for a full fall semester, they are also planning for 100% remote instruction and several ideas in between those two extremes. 

[LABILLBACKER]

Pretty presumptuous but full steam ahead? 

[atlbillsfan1975]

1 hour ago, Logic said:

 

Only listening to Fox News qualifies you to be an expert on COVID, everybody knows that.

Absolutely not. But none of you here have a clue. Trying to pretend like you do is foolish. Why not think positive? You can always be upset if football isn’t being played in the fall. You can tell us all you were right. Me, I won’t care if I was right I will be cheering the Bills on. 

[Mr. WEO]

39 minutes ago, Mickey said:

My spouse and I both teach some classes to two different large universities in addition to our regular jobs and though the are planning for a full fall semester, they are also planning for 100% remote instruction and several ideas in between those two extremes. 

 

University of Rochester announced yesterday they would be welcoming students as usual this Fall.  

 

[Buffalo_Stampede]

3 hours ago, atlbillsfan1975 said:

All the gloom and doom posters, let me guess MSNBC, CNN, and the New York Times have made you all experts?

 

Good for the NFL on planning to start on time. We need more people planning on things getting back to normal and less fear based over reaction. 

No. That's such BS also. When this started, before any shutdown people that minimized COVID-19 told me until Dr. Fauci says we have a problem then we don't have a problem. This was when Trump was saying it would magically disappear. Then Fauci started saying we're in trouble unless we social distance.

 

I don't play the game of going back and forth. I'm listening to Fauci over everyone else. That's what Fox News was saying before we shut down. Fauci is the man. Then he started saying things they didn't like.

Edited May 3, 2020 by Buffalo_Stampede

[atlbillsfan1975]

2 minutes ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:

No. That's such BS also. When this started, before any shutdown people that minimized COVID-19 told me until Dr. Fauci says we have a problem then we don't have a problem. This was when Trump was saying it would magically disappear. Then Fauci started saying we're in trouble unless we social distance.

 

I don't play the game of going back and forth. I'm listening to Fauci over everyone else. 

You have been very consistent with your opinion. I have seen you more than a few times side with the ‘we won’t get back to normal this year’ crowd. Feel feee to keep sharing. That’s what beautiful about this country. I don’t dislike you. In fact we both cheer for something I care a lot about, the Bills. I just will keep thinking things are going to get back to normal sooner than later because it means life is better for a lot of us.

Go Bills.
 

[Buffalo_Stampede]

5 minutes ago, atlbillsfan1975 said:

You have been very consistent with your opinion. I have seen you more than a few times side with the ‘we won’t get back to normal this year’ crowd. Feel feee to keep sharing. That’s what beautiful about this country. I don’t dislike you. In fact we both cheer for something I care a lot about, the Bills. I just will keep thinking things are going to get back to normal sooner than later because it means life is better for a lot of us.

Go Bills.
 

All I'm doing is listening to the guy people told me to listen to. I don't think Fauci is lying to us, why would he?

[Process]

Watch, bills will finally get multiple home prime time games and fans won't be allowed to attend.

[Buffalo_Stampede]

14 minutes ago, Process said:

Watch, bills will finally get multiple home prime time games and fans won't be allowed to attend.

Exactly. What's wrong with postponing the start of the season? I don't know why people would rather just play games? Bills fans impact home games I believe. This is supposed to be a special season. I don't want anything to mess it up. 

 

I'm not afraid of COVID-19, even though I do have a family member quarantined with it right now. She's doing well by the way. I just want NFL as normal as possible. 

[Royale with Cheese]

10 hours ago, Johnny Hammersticks said:

 

You shut your dirty ***** mouth!  

 

<pops cannabis edible>

Cannabis is the preferred drug of Filipino bi-curious men.

[Brianmoorman4jesus]

I wonder what day it will come out? Thursday maybe?

[RyanC883]

everyone want to talk about the schedule and not Covid-19?   this is turning into the espn draft coverage!  

how about this:   will the bills have more Monday or Sunday night games?  More home or away?

 

as an out of town fan I hope more are away, but a Sun night fame in Buffalo would be fun. 

[billsfanmiami(oh)]

2 hours ago, Buffalo_Stampede said:

All I'm doing is listening to the guy people told me to listen to. I don't think Fauci is lying to us, why would he?

I don’t think he’s lying either. But he’s flying blind a little bit to through this whole thing too. I think that’s kind of inherent to the situation, right? I don’t think anyone can reasonably say they know what things are going to look like 4 months from now. If they do, I’ll gladly accept some powerball numbers! 

[Richard Noggin]

Maybe it's been floated here already, but I haven't heard much talk about condensing the schedule via: eliminating inter-conference games.

 

Seems like the no-brainer way to build-in flexibility to the 2020 schedule, reduce travel, and maintain competitive integrity. 

 

Plus, who wants to play the NFCW anyways?