I’m surprised this situation took 3 full weeks.
Speaking of covid, it appears from reading the news Wisconsin is trending up. Be careful all you Badger residents. Keep yourselves and your families safe.
Green Bay Press-Gazette
683 patients were hospitalized with COVID-19 on Wednesday, nearly double the number two weeks earlier.
So the Titans bye is on Oct 25
The Steelers bye is the following week on 11/1
I'm assuming 11/1 is the first possibility of playing this game. The 10/25 game is vs. the Ravens -- So don't expect that to be moved.
Here's the thing. They all need to quarantine for 2 weeks. Does anyone think this will be the ONLY Covid case that occurs in the NFL?!?!
The NFL is royally screwed -- games are going to be cancelled & season shortened without question. Billions of dollars will be lost. The NFL owners will be weeping -- hey maybe we can start a GoFundMe for them 
Wear a mask and also wear gloves when out in public like the grocery store. Wash your hands 400 times a day.....you dirty MF'ers....use hand sanitizer at all times...Use Anti-Viral wet wipes on high traffic touch surfaces around your home. These are all things I have done & it really works to help stop the spread.
@skully posted:Green Bay Press-Gazette683 patients were hospitalized with COVID-19 on Wednesday, nearly double the number two weeks earlier.
Largest spikes are in the Fox Valley and around GB. Hospital capacity is nearing 95 percent in those areas. Contact tracing is showing majority of cases are from social gatherings including weddings, private parties, and other events (a bar had a unauthorized concert inside it 🙄🙄) Where no social distancing took place and little if any wore masks.
Brown county is blowing up with cases. How long before one gets into the Packers facility?
@Boris posted:
Here's the thing. They all need to quarantine for 2 weeks. Does anyone think this will be the ONLY Covid case that occurs in the NFL?!?!
I don't think it's 14 days for the NFL. It's 10 days and you must be 72 hours symptom free before you return. If you test positive without symptoms you can return after 10 days or two negative tests 5 days after testing positive. So it could be as little as a week.
@BrainDed posted:I don’t understand the coaches being required to wear masks on the sidelines while the players slobber all over each other.
I have to go there because I see no other logical reasoning for it, it’s got to be symbolic or political.
While there is a medical safety aspect to wearing masks to protect themselves and the team, I do think it's mostly symbolic - they're on TV and I think they want the world to see they're doing everything they can. And when this happens with the Titans, Goodell wants to say "we did everything we possibly could". No masks on the sidelines would refute the "everything we could" part.
But the NFL and NFLPA agreed to it. So there are legal reasons too.
EDIT: Clarified the first paragraph. WEAR YOUR MASKS!!!!!
Two more Titans’ players tested positive today in Tennessee, per source.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) October 2, 2020
Trending in the wrong direction.
I am wondering how many more confirmed cases will occur before Goodall and the NFL start to think about shutting down the season, once again. I'd think it will be two weeks before the vikings get hit with positive tests, after playing the Titans. How long before the Packers face the same thing, in heavily hit Brown County? --Especially if the Packers' players have family living in Brown County who may have contracted the virus from somewhere other than a Packer or NFL related activity? How many Packers' employees and players have kids in schools or in daycare centers? Those places have been shown to be spreaders of the virus and could easily have spread the virus to teachers, staff and to the students' parents and families. Our curve is almost straight up, at this point. This virus sucks!
Wow.
Patriots’ QB Cam Newton tested positive and is out for Sunday’s game vs. Kansas City, per @FieldYates and me.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) October 3, 2020
So who's getting voted off the island this week? Games of attrition are fun.
@AdamSchefter: Patriots-Chiefs game is being postponed and is expected to be played Monday or Tuesday, per source.
Chiefs had a backup player test positive too. Hope this isn't the beginning of the end of the season. Cold weather is right around the corner.
@Timpranillo posted:Well, that was a fun 3 weeks, wasn't it?
My fear is that we end up something like the NBA where the Bucks were cruising and the weird playoff format (no home crowd advantage) took them down. Packers are humming, but season seems like it's hanging by a thread.
3-4 games per week from now until the draft... The NFL would likely love that level of exposure.
@PackerHawk posted:Chiefs had a backup player test positive too. Hope this isn't the beginning of the end of the season. Cold weather is right around the corner.
I give it 3 more weeks.
5 games max -- Packers win World Championship #14 YAY!!
https://www.nfl.com/news/patriots-chiefs-game-postponed-after-multiple-positive-covid-19-tests
...and the hits just keep on coming
At least when the NFL falls to the China plague the Big 10 will be playing.
Well, a guy can hope.
@PackerHawk posted:Playing like crap took the Bucks down.
They did play like crap, but the home court would have made some difference against the Heat. Imagine what Game 1 would have been like in FiServ. During the last 2 minutes of the first quarter, the Bucks went on a 9-2 run to go up by 11 with Brook Lopez hitting a 3 at the buzzer. There would have been pandemonium. Maybe it doesn't make a difference, but it would have been nice to find out.
All 4 losses were close in the 4th quarter. I'd bet at least one of those games goes the other way. It's an entirely different series with the home-court advantage.
I agree. Bucks lost a key part of their game with the "bubble" concept.
Well that's a bummer. NFL was always going to have a bigger challenge than MLB, NBA and NHL. They're too big to have a bubble like the NBA and NHL (plus issues with the field being torn up). And the nature of football creates way more person-to-person contact than MLB. Hope they can turn this around. Would be a tough fall/winter with no NFL.
Now a Saints player tested positive. House of cards.
I know this isn’t popular opinion but I don’t give a F. Put them on the IR and move on. If players want to opt out, they have every right to do so and should not be discriminated against when they seek employment next year.
If I was young healthy male offered the opportunity to make hundreds of thousands to work and do so in high risk area for Covid, I’d sign up in a heartbeat. Science says the odds are with me, so show me the money.
Ummmm......Didn't the Packers just play the Saints??
Michael Burton's retest was negative. They also did a POC that was negative.
— Nick Underhill (@nick_underhill) October 4, 2020
He will be able to play....
All the other tests were negative
Appears to have been a false-positive.
@BrainDed posted:I know this isn’t popular opinion but I don’t give a F. Put them on the IR and move on. If players want to opt out, they have every right to do so and should not be discriminated against when they seek employment next year.
If I was young healthy male offered the opportunity to make hundreds of thousands to work and do so in high risk area for Covid, I’d sign up in a heartbeat. Science says the odds are with me, so show me the money.
I'm pretty sure if you went with that tact they season would be over. For every fundy dumbfuck like Kark, there's 10 family men who don't want to see their wives and children get exposed to something that could kill them because they believe in things like gravity or not punching a hole in your head to let out the evil spirits. You make the season a literal crapshoot and I think a lot of players opt out. As Maynard suggested, you'd end up with a 7 on7 squad season.
At least this way they are showing some level trying to control it without putting on the brakes completely or at least consulting with the rest of the team.
@michiganjoe posted:Michael Burton's retest was negative. They also did a POC that was negative.
— Nick Underhill (@nick_underhill) October 4, 2020
He will be able to play....
All the other tests were negativeAppears to have been a false-positive.
While Viking fans have been false-positive for years.
@Henry posted:
I'm pretty sure if you went with that tact they season would be over. For every fundy dumbfuck like Kark, there's 10 family men who don't want to see their wives and children get exposed to something that could kill them because they believe in things like gravity or not punching a hole in your head to let out the evil spirits. You make the season a literal crapshoot and I think a lot of players opt out. As Maynard suggested, you'd end up with a 7 on7 squad season.
At least this way they are showing some level trying to control it without putting on the brakes completely or at least consulting with the rest of the team.
It's kind of like the people who were in favor of reopening the schools, where I live. They could care less about the safety of the teachers, students and school staff, who were forced to teach, learn and work in a petri dish, full of Covid-19. They could care less about all the people, outside of the school, who would come in contact with those teachers, students and school staff, either. One idiot said that if the teachers got sick, parents could go in and replace those sick teachers, in the schools( because, anyone can teach!). How would you like to be a parent/substitute teacher, who had to go into the classroom where a teacher had contracted the coronavirus? These same jerks also said that teachers "knew what they were getting into when they became teachers." Pathetic. The NFL has more sense than that. They will shut down, if the positive tests go up. It's only a matter of time.
schools, where I live. They could care less about the safety of the teachers, students and school staff, who were forced to teach, learn and work in a petri dish, full of Covid-19.
So then you didn’t go to Home Depot, Walmart, gas station, or the grocery store once since March. Since I’m sure would agree that those low income workers lives are just as important.
Im impressed.
And let's just think about the nature of sport and football. These guys are literally face to face huffin' and puffin'.
I'm not playing grab ass with the Walmart greeter.
@Boris posted:Ummmm......Didn't the Packers just play the Saints??
Yep, and everyone has been tested daily since then.
@BrainDed posted:schools, where I live. They could care less about the safety of the teachers, students and school staff, who were forced to teach, learn and work in a petri dish, full of Covid-19.
So then you didn’t go to Home Depot, Walmart, gas station, or the grocery store once since March. Since I’m sure would agree that those low income workers lives are just as important.
Im impressed.
Actually, I did not go to any of those big stores. I contracted with a grocery delivery service, last April, and do most of my grocery shopping through them. I order online and they deliver my items to my door step. I am pretty much staying at home waiting for this virus to "disappear." Looks like I am in for a long wait. The gas station I go go to accepts credit cards at the pump, so I do not have to go inside, if I need gas. My shopping inside a store is limited to going to a local butcher shop for meat and even then I do not have to go inside as my butcher has a vending machine outside that can serve my needs, if need be. I am maintaining social distancing. I wear a mask if I am out and about and I am always, it seems, washing my hands.
I do go into the grocery store occasionally but also use Instacart & Amazon Fresh.
Haven't been to a WalMart in years. Home Depot? Nope at least 1 year.
Gas station?!?! WTF is a gas station? Been 2.5 years since I've touched a gas pump. I drive electric.