The difference here is most NFL players cant retire off one contract. Baseball middle relievers are earning 4-7m a year and NBA players bank. The shelf life of the average NFL player isnt that long. They need to make paper while they can.
Humanity has lost its collective mind. We're talking about a mild illness in the vast majority of cases, with a 99.7 percent survival rate. Not to mention the significant number of false positive tests. In fact, this illness is so bad most people who get it never even know they had it.
Stop being scaredy cats people. This is a con job. China where it came from has returned to normal. Does anyone really believe they've "eradicated" it? No, they know its a minor illness and are just dealing with it.
They are postponing the game 2 days. It’s a far cry from the end of the world. Just means we get to watch more football, likely moved to national tv, on Tuesday. NFL finds ways to make more money in a crisis to get back some of the money lost by not playing the preseason.
Originally the plan was to push the came back to Monday or Tuesday. That is no longer the case.
Now they are going to do something with juggling bye weeks. The Steelers and Titans didn't have the same week off originally scheduled, so there is some schedule juggling that will have to be done.
If this is like what happened to the St Louis Cardinals, the Titans' Week 5 game will likely be postponed as well. It took around 2 weeks for new positive tests from popping up.
This could be a hidden blessing to the Titans who are currently undefeated if they base final standings off winning percentage rather than wins. Just look how covid helped the Marlins and Cardinals slide into the MLB playoffs.
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https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/…
This is one of those jobs where working from home doesn’t really work.
Stop being scaredy cats people. This is a con job. China where it came from has returned to normal. Does anyone really believe they've "eradicated" it? No, they know its a minor illness and are just dealing with it.
Wake up and smell the con job. You've been had.
There are known players who might be injury prone, but the chance of becoming covid positive is a huge unknown.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/3001…
Originally the plan was to push the came back to Monday or Tuesday. That is no longer the case.
Now they are going to do something with juggling bye weeks. The Steelers and Titans didn't have the same week off originally scheduled, so there is some schedule juggling that will have to be done.
Read the link I posted.
This could be a hidden blessing to the Titans who are currently undefeated if they base final standings off winning percentage rather than wins. Just look how covid helped the Marlins and Cardinals slide into the MLB playoffs.
https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/…
https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/…
The Chiefs are also scheduled to play a week from this coming Thursday.
So if they have a Tuesday night game, they will have to play 3 times in 9 days.
That's not a good way to stay healthy.
There may be other players on both teams.
If there are no positives, you are correct. If there are positives, who knows?