Cam Newton tests positive for Covid, OUT Sunday v Chiefs UPDATE: Game postponed

[Offside Number 76]

1 minute ago, mikemac2001 said:

I doubt the announcers change 

 

due to travel and planning for the week 

 

likely that team stays in KC and works the game on Tuesday 

 

Spero Dedes makes me want to punch things.

[TheFunPolice]

Just plan for Tuesday night football games. Televise them and try to make something out of this.

 

 

[Giuseppe Tognarelli]

Just now, {::'KayCeeS::} said:

 

Relax.  If all the other sports leagues can make it happen, so can the NFL.

With the weather changing, the NFL faces a unique challenge.

[fergie's ire]

15 minutes ago, Patrick_Duffy said:

Well at the beginning of TC or right before the season started (believe my timeline is correct here) I remember a few of the Bills players had quite a few false positives if I remember correctly. Are they using a different type of test now than they were then?

As mentioned, that was one lab.  But what is interesting is the way that I have heard it phrased.  It is being reported that Cam has been DIAGNOSED with Covid, not that he has tested positive.  Makes me wonder if he has symptoms.

[IDBillzFan]

1 minute ago, TheFunPolice said:

Just plan for Tuesday night football games. Televise them and try to make something out of this.

 

 

 

I'd love a bunch of Tuesday night games. Waiting from Monday to Thursday is already too long for me.

 

I suspect I'm in the minority, because I have no problem watching any two teams...even Broncos Jets. I just love having the game on.

[Logic]

Eight divisional bubbles or 32 team bubbles. Only way forward.

Edited October 3, 2020 by Logic

[The Wiz]

Bears Colts is the national game now apparently. 

[{::'KayCeeS::}]

4 minutes ago, Giuseppe Tognarelli said:

With the weather changing, the NFL faces a unique challenge.

 

Yeah, I get it.  But there's a LOT of scenarios to deal with the unpleasantness that don't involve cancelling the season.

[Albany,n.y.]

Unfortunately, not everyone will get the game because CBS moved the Colts/Bears game to 4:25.  They better show the Bills in Albany or there will be people outside WRGB with pitchforks & torches outside WRGB's building.  

[cd1]

1 hour ago, Chandler#81 said:

WOW! I woulda thought that bonnet of his would be enough to ward off anything!

 

AND  It looks like Belicheat got a hold of his coat sleeves!

[Offside Number 76]

1 minute ago, The Wiz said:

Bears Colts is the national game now apparently. 

 

My sister in Illinois will be crushed.

[Billl]

The Chiefs Bills game is almost certainly going to get pushed back to Sunday.  No way the Chiefs can play on Tuesday, Sunday, and then Thursday.  3 games in 9 days would be a disaster.

[CEN-CAL17]

3 minutes ago, {::'KayCeeS::} said:

 

Relax.  If all the other sports leagues can make it happen, so can the NFL.

Not if they don’t reel these players in.

 

Theyve kind of been doing whatever they want whenever they want.... large gatherings, restaurants, bars etc.... and that just what we hear. I’d imagine some of these dudes are hooking up, not wearing masks when they should, not following stricter guidelines cause they’ve seemed

to go away and everyone got lax.

 

If they are not going to avoid all this, they’d need to be sequestered but I guarantee the NFLPA won’t do that.

 

At this point I feel like the players want to play, but they also don’t want to be locked down by guidance. Cause I bet it’s there. But players are doing there own thing. All it takes is one.

 

Think about... Cam is a social butterfly. Just watch all his off-season videos. Dude hangs around dozens of dudes all the time. You don’t think this guy has multiple people coming to his house a day? You don’t think he’s going here or there between practice and going home? These guys he has over, you think they socially distance? Lay low?

 

This all stems from not following the guidance....

[{::'KayCeeS::}]

Just now, CEN-CAL17 said:

Not if they don’t reel these players in.

 

Theyve kind of been doing whatever they want whenever they want.... large gatherings, restaurants, bars etc.... and that just what we hear. I’d imagine some of these dudes are hooking up, not wearing masks when they should, not following stricter guidelines cause they’ve seemed

to go away and everyone got lax.

 

If they are not going to avoid all this, they’d need to be sequestered but I guarantee the NFLPA won’t do that.

 

At this point I feel like the players want to play, but they also don’t want to be locked down by guidance. Cause I bet it’s there. But players are doing there own thing. All it takes is one.

 

Think about... Cam is a social butterfly. Just watch all his off-season videos. Dude hangs around dozens of dudes all the time. You don’t think this guy has multiple people coming to his house a day? You don’t think he’s going here or there between practice and going home? These guys he has over, you think they socially distance? Lay low?

 

This all stems from not following the guidance....

 

All good points.  I might be kind of in denial.  Still, we shall see.

[SCBills]

I’ll never understand why some are so eager to go straight to the worst case scenario.  It’s frustrating to read stuff like this, especially as I’m watching Florida vs South Carolina, with fans in the stands... but yea, NFL is going to cancel the season over a Week 4 hiccup.... 

[MJS]

This is the wake-up call the players need. They need to stay home and not take any chances in their off time.

[loedward22]

1 minute ago, SCBills said:

I’ll never understand why some are so eager to go straight to the worst case scenario.  It’s frustrating to read stuff like this, especially as I’m watching Florida vs South Carolina, with fans in the stands... but yea, NFL is going to cancel the season over a Week 4 hiccup.... 

 

It's pessimism.  I'm naturally pessimistic and recognize when I'm having pessimistic thoughts and still can't do anything to stop it... 

[ndirish1978]

Why did they postpone the game just because of Cam? If he pulled a hamstring they wouldn't postpone the game. I presume they are expecting more pats players to test positive now. 

[Giuseppe Tognarelli]

4 minutes ago, SCBills said:

I’ll never understand why some are so eager to go straight to the worst case scenario.  It’s frustrating to read stuff like this, especially as I’m watching Florida vs South Carolina, with fans in the stands... but yea, NFL is going to cancel the season over a Week 4 hiccup.... 

Titans uncontrolled outbreak, dominoes already falling

Patriots positives, more tests to come

Chiefs positives, more tests to come

Nervousness that positives will still come out of Las Vegas

 

Too many dominoes, and with the weather changing and cases surging across the country, this is more than a hiccup.

Edited October 3, 2020 by Giuseppe Tognarelli

[loedward22]

Just now, ndirish1978 said:

Why did they postpone the game just because of Cam? If he pulled a hamstring they wouldn't postpone the game. I presume they are expecting more pats players to test positive now. 

 

timing.  they were having to fly today and didn't want to make the problem way worse by having all these guys board a plane together.