scribo Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 (edited) Speculation from reporters both in Denver and Boston, based on their conversations with the teams, that the teams may revolt against Goodell if they tries to make them play the game tomorrow. That sure would be interesting. 4 minutes ago, whatdrought said: Is that a newer rule? The Falcons had a player test positive on Friday and played Sunday with no ill effects. Not a new rule. The Falcons had two days of no new positives after that one positive. https://www.nfl.com/news/bears-falcons-will-be-played-aj-terrell-test-positive-covid-19 Edited October 11, 2020 by scribo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rochesterfan Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 19 hours ago, CEN-CAL17 said: Why in the last 2 weeks have the Patriots had 1....1 single player test positive and the games have been flexed to Monday prime time games?! You would think if only 1 player tests positive. The rest of the team gets tested throughout the week. If no other positives.... the game is played as usual, only one player is out. The price you pay is a day of practice. Would this happen if it was a PS player? Give the team a prime time game cause a player who wasn’t gonna play anyways tested positive? Because that is not what happened at all. They had 1 positive (Cam) the day before they had to travel. The travel has been identified as the highest point of possible infection and spread for the team. The NFL needed to do contact tracing to identify the potential exposures and then worked to have them travel separately in a bubble. There was low likelihood of them being infective on Monday because of the exposure date. They travelled and played and as expected there was no field spread. Now the NFL was waiting for the other shoe to drop as we hit 4-5 days from exposure. Then the Pats get word (as predicted) that 2 more players tested positive - the NFL closed the facility and asked people to work remotely and wanting to ensure the NFL has additional time for exposures to Gilmore - they would expect those to come positive on Fri - Sun - so the best thing was to push the game to Monday give time for the positives to show up and then play. The NFL would love to get this game in because then the Pats have a bye week and that would allow the infections to run their course and be done. It all has to do with travel and timing. They know they are dealing with an outbreak in NE that has limited spread - some caused by exposure (a dinner between Cam and Gilmore) and some caused by the travel to KC for exposed players. It does not appear that anything was done to help the Pats - it was done to try and identify the potential prom lens and limit spread as much as possible. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rochesterfan Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 11 minutes ago, whatdrought said: Is that a newer rule? The Falcons had a player test positive on Friday and played Sunday with no ill effects. The Falcons player when reviews had no defined close contact based on tracing and the Falcons were not traveling. They decided it was a very low likelihood of spread and went ahead. I think after seeing Tennessee and NE - the evaluation has become more important, but the planning was similar to NE. Even if the Falcon player did spread it to other Falcons at Friday’s practice - those players would not be infectious on Sunday - so you begin to identify on Monday of the next week. The big difference with NE was travel and spending potentially 3 hours on a plane which is a high risk to exposure and then additional time on a bus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott7975 Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 8 minutes ago, Rochesterfan said: Because that is not what happened at all. They had 1 positive (Cam) the day before they had to travel. The travel has been identified as the highest point of possible infection and spread for the team. The NFL needed to do contact tracing to identify the potential exposures and then worked to have them travel separately in a bubble. There was low likelihood of them being infective on Monday because of the exposure date. They travelled and played and as expected there was no field spread. Now the NFL was waiting for the other shoe to drop as we hit 4-5 days from exposure. Then the Pats get word (as predicted) that 2 more players tested positive - the NFL closed the facility and asked people to work remotely and wanting to ensure the NFL has additional time for exposures to Gilmore - they would expect those to come positive on Fri - Sun - so the best thing was to push the game to Monday give time for the positives to show up and then play. The NFL would love to get this game in because then the Pats have a bye week and that would allow the infections to run their course and be done. It all has to do with travel and timing. They know they are dealing with an outbreak in NE that has limited spread - some caused by exposure (a dinner between Cam and Gilmore) and some caused by the travel to KC for exposed players. It does not appear that anything was done to help the Pats - it was done to try and identify the potential prom lens and limit spread as much as possible. And possibly that Gilmore passed it to Mahomes and that will pop up any day now. He could then in turn be passing it to all his teammates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rochesterfan Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 7 minutes ago, Scott7975 said: And possibly that Gilmore passed it to Mahomes and that will pop up any day now. He could then in turn be passing it to all his teammates. He might have, but that was a low risk exposure between the 2 of them - outside, brief contact. Most likely if Mahomes was exposed, he would of turned up positive Thursday or Friday and he has not. That is the problem with how the NFL is doing the testing - a positive comes back 24 hours later - so you have to contract trace based on contact length and have those players limit exposure as much as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BillsMafi$ Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 (edited) This game has now been moved to next Sunday!! Edited October 11, 2020 by BillsMafi$ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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PirateHookerMD Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 Next will come the league continuing to bend over backwards for the Titans. Drop the hammer. No way you can play the game Tuesday and I don't think its fair to reschedule it again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wjag Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 (edited) Officially postponed. now the schedule churn gets interesting. Edited October 11, 2020 by wjag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott7975 Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 1 minute ago, YoloinOhio said: Its funny how quickly they keep moving Pats games around after one positive test. Yet, the Bills continually sit in limbo with a team that has a massive outbreak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Johnnycage46 Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 2 minutes ago, Scott7975 said: Its funny how quickly they keep moving Pats games around after one positive test. Yet, the Bills continually sit in limbo with a team that has a massive outbreak. I think the NFL realizes the Pats are train wreck without Cam right now and seem to want to make sure their golden team of the last 20 years doesn't fall flat on their face. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkeerie Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 2 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said: Then that should apply to the Bills and Titans game. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 5 minutes ago, Scott7975 said: Its funny how quickly they keep moving Pats games around after one positive test. Yet, the Bills continually sit in limbo with a team that has a massive outbreak. Well in this case, the Cheaters can't have 2 negative tests in a row before game day. Similarly, the Titans will only find out if they had 2 negatives in a row on game day, but by then it will be too late. They have to cancel that game as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wjag Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 (edited) 2 minutes ago, jkeerie said: Then that should apply to the Bills and Titans game. It’s mind boggling. Especially because of the TNF game is looming too. Maybe the issue was the Broncos need to travel today. Bills still have one more day before they need to get on a plane. Edited October 11, 2020 by wjag 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott7975 Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 3 minutes ago, Johnnycage46 said: I think the NFL realizes the Pats are train wreck without Cam right now and seem to want to make sure their golden team of the last 20 years doesn't fall flat on their face. Most likely. Its pretty obvious. Titans have an outbreak they take days to tell them to play. Continually test positive and crickets. Pats have one player test pos and they move the game pretty fast 3 times now. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCBills Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 Pats have the luckiest positive test ever, as they go from possibly no Gilmore/Cam on MNF to likely both of them back on Sunday. Is it just due to the larger rosters in college that they don’t seem to have these issues?... I saw games all yesterday where so and so is out due to COVID related issues, Virginia Tech has been down like 20 players every game, yet they keep playing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nineforty Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 Do you think they went this route of postponing DEN v MIA because they are likely to end up not needing to play that game cuz they suck? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 5 minutes ago, SCBills said: Pats have the luckiest positive test ever, as they go from possibly no Gilmore/Cam on MNF to likely both of them back on Sunday. Is it just due to the larger rosters in college that they don’t seem to have these issues?... I saw games all yesterday where so and so is out due to COVID related issues, Virginia Tech has been down like 20 players every game, yet they keep playing. Well without Locke, who is close to returning, the Broncos had no chance. Delaying the game gives him a better chance of playing. And who knows if the virus has affected Newton and/or Gilmore? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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