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

[Liberal Bob]

I am surprised that they did not move the Bills vs Raiders to prime time. As it would of been easy to slide the game back 3 hours in Vegas. It is not like having to worry about a late switch for fans coming to the game.

[416BillsFan]

1 minute ago, Liberal Bob said:

I am surprised that they did not move the Bills vs Raiders to prime time. As it would of been easy to slide the game back 3 hours in Vegas. It is not like having to worry about a late switch for fans coming to the game.

Because CBS needs it at 430 more then ever now. Will likely be the televised game in major markets like LA & Boston, possibly NY. In many weeks, the 430 game is the highest rated of the week.

[Giuseppe Tognarelli]

Bills fans in the D.C./Maryland area, go here to request that CBS show Bills/Raiders instead of Colts/Bears:

 

https://twitter.com/wusa9?s=09

[HansLanda]

I couldn't care less about any additional TV coverage, more concerned if the NFL full season will happen. 

[KD in CA]

I’m sure it’s somewhere in this thread, but who else besides Newton has tested positive?

[Beast]

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

 

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

 

The NFL doesn't have the luxury of playing multiple times a week like the other three major sports leagues do.

Edited October 3, 2020 by Beast

[{::'KayCeeS::}]

1 minute ago, Beast said:

 

The NFL doesn't have the luxury of playing multiple times a week like the other three major sports leagues do.

 

That's a good point.  But there's not reason why the season has to be 17 weeks.

[die hard bills fan]

this sucks.

[stevewin]

4 minutes ago, KD in CA said:

I’m sure it’s somewhere in this thread, but who else besides Newton has tested positive?

Only other one i've seen so far has been practice squad QB for Chiefs

[Beast]

1 hour ago, whatdrought said:

Two big changes for the Bills cause of this:

 

Tomorrow's game will likely be national.

 

I doubt we play the Chiefs on TNF the 15th, as that would be 3 games in 10 days for them (if the tuesday thing happens)

 

Agreed. The fair thing to do for the Chiefs would be to move the Bills/Chiefs game to Sunday.

[dubs]

25 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

They won’t know until tonight if the rest of the team is negative. So had to postpone 

gotcha!  👍 

[dubs]

I’m sure there will be conspiracy theorists saying they only cancelled to help the patriots play the Chiefs at full strength.  Hah!

 

PS - I think they are just cancelling to help the Pats not have to play a game at less than full strength. 🤔 

Edited October 3, 2020 by dubs

[MJS]

Cam has been out buying too many clothes from the thrift stores.

 

Clearly that's where he picked up COVID-19.

[SCBills]

49 minutes ago, CEN-CAL17 said:

cause it’s only going to take 3-4 games being postponed and we are already at 2.... beyond 4 or so, it’s gonna start to be a logistical nightmare being we are only at week 4 of 17.... and that’s just regular season.

...or the NFL adds a week 18.   So far, they’ve rescheduled within the 17 week schedule.  
 

If we get hit with a massive second wave and players are testing positive left and right, then sure, we’ve got problems, but for all we know... The Titans stop testing positive this weekend, we play them as scheduled Sunday, Pats/Chiefs follow the Falcons lead and isolate the player, play on Tuesday, and everyone starts to button up realizing how susceptible they are.  
 

NFL is not going to cancel when CFB is playing, and CFB has given ZERO indication that they are not going to be crowning a National Champion.  
 

 

Edited October 3, 2020 by SCBills

[RiotAct]

1 hour ago, Jauronimo said:

They were supposed to fly today.  You can't put a whole team on a plane before everyone has been tested.  If they can't fly today they aren't playing tomorrow.  

makes sense.  thanks 

[scribo]

So Cam Newton will be out for at least two games, provided they are able to play the scheduled games in the weeks they are currently slated. That's @ KC and vs Denver.

[MJS]

1 minute ago, scribo said:

So Cam Newton will be out for at least two games, provided they are able to play the scheduled games in the weeks they are currently slated. That's @ KC and vs Denver.

We'll see if the league has the guts to play those games with the Patriots starting QB out.

[YoloinOhio]

 

1 minute ago, scribo said:

So Cam Newton will be out for at least two games, provided they are able to play the scheduled games in the weeks they are currently slated. That's @ KC and vs Denver.

Why two games?

[scribo]

1 minute ago, YoloinOhio said:

 

Why two games?

He cannot be cleared to return for at least 10 days from diagnosis. It could be longer if he develops symptoms.

[YoloinOhio]

4 minutes ago, scribo said:

He cannot be cleared to return for at least 10 days from diagnosis. It could be longer if he develops symptoms.

I thought they tweaked it after the Matthew Stafford False-Positive situation, where If player tests positive but is asymptomatic and has no known history of infection, he would be given 2 more tests to confirm. If those are negative, he’s considered not infected. Did they change it back?  I mean this thing has changed so much 

Edited October 3, 2020 by YoloinOhio

[MJS]

1 minute ago, YoloinOhio said:

I thought they tweaked it after the Matthew Stafford False-Positive situation, where If player tests positive but is asymptomatic and has no known history of infection, he would be given 2 more tests to confirm. If those are negative, he’s considered not infected.

Is there doubt that Cam has it?

[Simon]

Just now, MJS said:

Is there doubt that Cam has it?

 

Personally, he never struck me as a guy who had "It".  

[scribo]

4 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:

I thought they tweaked it after the Matthew Stafford False-Positive situation, where If player tests positive but is asymptomatic and has no known history of infection, he would be given 2 more tests to confirm. If those are negative, he’s considered not infected. Did they change it back?  I mean this thing has changed so much 

Sporting News reports (on 9/29): Following a positive test, if the player is asymptomatic, he can return once :

• 10 days have passed since the initial positive test; OR
• Five days have passed since the initial positive test and the player receives two consecutive negative PCR virus tests at least 24 hours apart within that five-day period

Following a positive test, if the player demonstrates symptoms, he can return once:

• At least 10 days have passed since symptoms first appeared; AND
• At least 72 hours have passed since he last experienced symptoms

In either case, a player who tests positive must be cleared by his team's head physician before returning.

Additionally, all players who have tested positive and recovered (or who have tested positive for antibodies) will undergo additional cardiac screening.

Edited October 3, 2020 by scribo
added date of article

[YoloinOhio]

2 minutes ago, MJS said:

Is there doubt that Cam has it?

He had one positive test so far as far as I know 

1 minute ago, scribo said:

Sporting News Reports: Following a positive test, if the player is asymptomatic, he can return once :

• 10 days have passed since the initial positive test; OR
• Five days have passed since the initial positive test and the player receives two consecutive negative PCR virus tests at least 24 hours apart within that five-day period

Following a positive test, if the player demonstrates symptoms, he can return once:

• At least 10 days have passed since symptoms first appeared; AND
• At least 72 hours have passed since he last experienced symptoms

In either case, a player who tests positive must be cleared by his team's head physician before returning.

Additionally, all players who have tested positive and recovered (or who have tested positive for antibodies) will undergo additional cardiac screening.

So 5 days minimum 

[{::'KayCeeS::}]

2 minutes ago, Simon said:

 

Personally, he never struck me as a guy who had "It".  

 

Ever since he didn't fall on that fumble in the Super Bowl, how can anyone say he has IT?

[MJS]

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

 

Ever since he didn't fall on that fumble in the Super Bowl, how can anyone say he has IT?

He had a super lame slide against the Raiders too. Looked like a scared kid. Anyone else see that?

[Doc Brown]

3 hours ago, BillsFanSD said:

I've always really liked Cam Newton until he signed with New England.  I hope he has a quick recovery so our division title remains untainted.

He showed me who he is when he didn't dive for that fumble in the Superbowl.  Screw him and his constant showboating.  I say that knowing the odds of him recovering are extremely high (above 99%).

[scribo]

1 minute ago, YoloinOhio said:

He had one positive test so far as far as I know 

So 5 days minimum 

Right, but if he really has it, which they say he does, he won't be testing negative yet in just two days from now. 

[Captain Caveman]

2 hours ago, Limeaid said:

 

 

Yes dominoes are going to start to fall.  Players who could not stop smoking weed to keep getting paid millions of dollars are not going to be able to follow rules thru Superbowl.  Some just do not have the will power.

 

This is a lousy statement to make.  We don't have any clue how he caught it.  It could have been contact with someone who worked for the team.  It could have been his housecleaner, or a family member who went to the grocery store.  I'd be very surprised if he did anything dumb to jeopardize his season, knowing how much he enjoys winning, and also how much $ he has at stake.  

 

There are some dumb players, there are some addicts (which is not the same thing.)  Cam hasn't done anything that I'm aware of that would indicate he's in either of those groups.

[FTLBillsfan]

Does that mean the Bills - Raiders game is the only late game on CBS? The Pats - Chiefs game was scheduled for most of the country except Western and Central NY and Nevada and Southern California that had the Bills - Raiders

[RiotAct]

1 hour ago, Billl said:

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. 

Sure they can!

[Hapless Bills Fan]

1 hour ago, YoloinOhio said:

 

 

 

 

So it sounds as though at this point Newton has probably had 3 tests: Friday's (positive), a Sat am POC confirmatory test, and then another test taken Sat am to be submitted to the lab and returned this evening?

[scribo]

11 minutes ago, FTLBillsfan said:

Does that mean the Bills - Raiders game is the only late game on CBS? The Pats - Chiefs game was scheduled for most of the country except Western and Central NY and Nevada and Southern California that had the Bills - Raiders

Unfortunately, no. The NFL moved the Bears-Colts game from 1 to 4:25.

[FTLBillsfan]

1 minute ago, scribo said:

Unfortunately, no. The NFL moved the Bears-Colts game from 1 to 4:25.

I just saw that, But I don't think Bears - Colts game will get the coverage that Pats _ Chiefs did. This moves Bills - Raiders as the premium game in that time slot. Most likely here in Florida we will get the bills game. 

[Doc Brown]

1 minute ago, FTLBillsfan said:

I just saw that, But I don't think Bears - Colts game will get the coverage that Pats _ Chiefs did. This moves Bills - Raiders as the premium game in that time slot. Most likely here in Florida we will get the bills game. 

Both are 3-0 teams going against 2-1 teams.  I guess we'll have to wait for the coverage maps to update.

 

[Hapless Bills Fan]

57 minutes ago, Beast said:

 

The NFL doesn't have the luxury of playing multiple times a week like the other three major sports leagues do.

 

This

[ColoradoBills]

I wonder how both the Pats* and Titans players (locker room) is taking all of this.

One would think there would be some finger pointing and distress coming from all this.

Players worried they may be passing this to their families etc.

 

I guess I disagree that teams with players testing positive will get any "advantage".

I see it as a pretty big problem

[scribo]

I, for one, am not claiming the NFL's handling thus far is giving the infected teams advantages over any of the uninfected teams. But the Titans are getting a better deal, so far, than the Pats*. Once again, I am not complaining but I think Pats* fans have room to complain. That said, I believe the way they are treating the Pats* right now is the right way.

[SCBills]

3 minutes ago, scribo said:

I, for one, am not claiming the NFL's handling thus far is giving the infected teams advantages over any of the uninfected teams. But the Titans are getting a better deal, so far, than the Pats*. Once again, I am not complaining but I think Pats* fans have room to complain. That said, I believe the way they are treating the Pats* right now is the right way.

Pats could have a full blown outbreak and get the rescheduled game, but as long as they’ve done everything right, and Cam was isolated and is the only exposure, they get to play Tuesday without him.  
 

It’s the right way to handle it, but it also penalizes the team that did it the right way.  (Also see, Falcons, AJ Terrell)

 

 

Edited October 3, 2020 by SCBills

[ColoradoBills]

1 minute ago, scribo said:

I, for one, am not claiming the NFL's handling thus far is giving the infected teams advantages over any of the uninfected teams. But the Titans are getting a better deal, so far, than the Pats*. Once again, I am not complaining but I think Pats* fans have room to complain. That said, I believe the way they are treating the Pats* right now is the right way.

 

I hope my post didn't make you think that.  I was not talking about the NFL.  Some of the comments made got me thinking about what this must be

doing to the team itself.  It can't be good.  

 

Human nature would say some might think, "TB wouldn't of brought this in the facility, what's up with Cam.  Isn't he suppose to be THE leader?"

This has to be upsetting to many players/coaches/etc.