In each and every NFL season, there are loss groups that arrive in December and only need to move on to January, finish the calendar, and move home.
By 2020, the league itself is about to reach an increasingly difficult pandemic in January.
If Week 12 is a harbinger, NFL executives will do more interference than Lamar Jackson and Kyler Murray. The Thanksgiving demo game between Baltimore and Pittsburgh has already been postponed twice, and he is still in danger on Tuesday night with more than 20 Ravens. Denver, thanks to protocol violations through its quarterbacks, threw an uns recruited rookie open receiver to move the ball critically and, unsurprisingly, slightly.
Saints and patriots have also imposed heavy fines for not being as diligent with coronavirus protocols as they are.
The NFL deserves a compliment for getting this with minimal disruption to what we see in the school game. However, lately there is an atmosphere of concern.
Crews were ordered to move away from their services on Monday and Tuesday as the pandemic spread across the country. Professional football must persevere, but for how long?
“I think we want to take a look at a bubble,” says Bill Cowher, Hall of Fame coach and now an analyst at CBS Sports. “When you think about the country right now, we’re going through a wave of moments. You have to be flexible”. in your thinking.
“We’re talking about the final facilities. We’re talking about groups that may not be able to exercise all week. I’m starting to think about the groups later, as we find out they’re coming out of the playoffs. “. They are more reckless and carefree with their off-field movements.
“I think right now, from a competitive and balanced point of view, and from a security point of view, move on to a bubble. Go to a city now, identify a hotel, take all the staff, put them there and make sure they take the bus to and from practice. They fly to and from games. It worked in hockey. It worked in basketball. I think the time has come. Protect the integrity of the game. It’s the right thing to do. And that’s the safest thing to do. “
In some respects, it’s also the hardest thing to do. Don’t think the NFL hasn’t discussed the concept of the bubble, it’s focused on creating one or more for the playoffs. It has done so in the last six weeks of the calendar is a logistical challenge that equates to scoring at the 1985 Bears or the 2000 Ravens.
As the number of COVID-19 instances in the league increases, so does the possibility of more postponements, even cancellations or packages, which the NFL doesn’t need to think about.
One option that is more logical day by day is for the league to create an 18th week by the time of January weekend, with a higher probability than ever of epidemics within the groups, and to have a week to play because the between the convention championships and the Super Bowl can simply be eliminated: the arrival of week 18 has its merits.
It is true that this would lessen the threat of mismatches like what happened Sunday in Denver, a 31-3 Saints war that has never been in doubt; Is that what NFL games are like?And that can help avoid what might be a similar contest in Pittsburgh on Tuesday night, if that game were played.
“I don’t think the word is right,” said Saints coach Sean Payton, whose team was fined $500,000 and a seventh-round selection for continually challenging NFL protocols. “Listen, everything about this season is unusual, like getting rid of things we can’t control. . . And then what can we control? And let’s find a way to get our next W. “
Do trainers need the next W, or the next L, to arrive, because they or their opponent are at serious risk due to the invisible enemy of the coronavirus?If so, she’s as bloodless as Lambeau Field in the middle of winter.
The Browns’ middle, JC Tretter, president of the NFL Players Association, addressed the problems facing football last week.
“As you can see, we’ve said all the time, we’re a little sensitive to what the country is and what our local communities are going through,” he said. “We are seeing massive spikes in cases across the country, which only increases the likelihood of instances entering construction from the outside. That’s what you see, as instances across the country are higher, so are our instances. Instances are higher across the league, which is why protocols are so vital to keeping the season and keeping kids healthy and not allowing this virus to spread once it enters construction.
There are still five weeks to check and the recent effects have been distressing.
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AP Sports writers Brett Martel and Tom Withers contributed.
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