NFLPA pushing for a shutdown of season
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The NFLPA is pushing for a temporary shutdown of the NFL season, do you think this will happen?
Report: NFLPA members pushing for temporary season shutdown due to rising COVID-19 cases
Some members of the NFLPA are reportedly calling for the season to be put on pause due to an increase in COVID-19 cases.
An increase in COVID-19 cases has caused some concern amongst members of the National Football League Players Association. While some members of the NFLPA have pushed for the game between the Las Vegas Raiders and the Cleveland Browns to be postponed, some reportedly want the season to be put on pause for a little while.
According to a tweet from ProFootballTalk, the Players Association is "aggressively pushing" for the game between the Raiders and Browns to be postponed to a later date.
Because of the increase in COVID-19 cases, the Players Association is apparently concerned about the safety of NFL players. Along with that, due to the number of players who might have to sit out due to COVID-19, the union is also concerned about "game integrity," according to the tweet.
NFLPA members reportedly calling for temporary shutdown due to increase in COVID-19 cases
The NFL is definitely having to deal with a pretty sizable issue. It's not shocking that the NFL Players Association would start examining options to help protect the health of the players and also the integrity of the game.
Teams that have outbreaks are definitely going to be adversely impacted by having to sideline players.
That could very easily result in a loss, especially if a team like the Browns has its roster impacted in a significant manner. With the way many teams are competing for a spot in the playoffs, the concerns of the integrity of the game make sense.
It remains to be seen exactly how this will all play out.
Will the NFL put its season on pause to allow teams dealing with outbreaks an opportunity to get a better handle on the situation and allow for players to rest, recover, test negative, and then return to their team?
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If so, so you in 2030.
Why not?
The NFL can't let this happen,not when they're doing everything they possibly can to guarantee a Patriots vs Bucs Super Bowl.
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Yes, the whole season is scripted anyway, and the players are not even real people, they're robots.
Or perhaps, puppets? 🤔
Where’s the NFLPA when players are breaking protocols?
The players need to act like it is Late January of this year and minimize outside contacts.
If we had march madness (with its troubles) the NFLPA can play along with lockdown protocols
Don’t Forget! Roger is actually just a robot that has a 3rd invisible arm, how else could he control the refs to go along with controlling the offense and defense?
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No chance. Money talks.
in all seriousness, they should consider something with the Cleveland vs. Raiders game. right now it's likely Cleveland won't have enough players to field for the game, there are five starting DB's on the COVID list along with both QB's, Mayfield and Keenum. some guy they just signed today by the name of Nick Mullens will start on Saturday. all total right now they have 20 players on the COVID list and at least one that just came off it after missing last week's game.
how does a QB sign and play two days later?? will someone be telling him what he's supposed to do on each play???
You think we go to sleep and the game is … rescheduled?
Tough break for Cleveland but it is what it is. All teams are on the same playing field, there have been other teams short handed and they still played so Cleveland shouldn’t be any different.
They can cry all they want but too bad the way I see it. I’d say the same thing if it were the Pats
Forget it
it's a prideful matter of principal for the NFL Commissioner now, he won't stop anything and will have a Team forfiet before a re-scheduled game is played.
concern for players aside, you'd have to be crazy to head to downtown Cleveland on Saturday afternoon. their are currently no COVID-19 restrictions in place at pretty much anywhere in the City, including the Stadium, and people will be packed into bars and partying up a storm in the parking lots.
this will be an interesting one to watch in the coming week.
Not a chance. Over 15 billion in revenue in 2019 and I suspect 2021 will surpass it. 2020 was COVID heavy so I am using 2019 as the reference point. I can see moving games a few days back.
In a major escalation of pressure on NFL teams to vaccinate as many players as possible before the start of this fall's season, the NFL says that teams will forfeit and be slapped with a loss if a game is cancelled because of a COVID-19 outbreak among their unvaccinated players — and neither team's players will be paid.
The new policy, which could potentially affect playoff seedings, was communicated in a 10-page memo to the league's 32 teams that was first reported by Tom Pelissero of NFL Network.
"These operating principles are designed to allow us to play a full season in a safe and responsible way and address possible competitive or financial issues fairly," states the introduction to the memo, which goes on to outline a variety of pandemic-related health provisions and policies.
The memo comes as some NFL teams have struggled to vaccinate a majority of their players.
Though all 32 teams now have at least 50% of their players vaccinated, two teams — the Washington Football Team and the Indianapolis Colts — only reached that benchmark in the last week, according to the Associated Press.
"We know that vaccines are safe and effective and are the best step anyone can take to be safe from the coronavirus," the memo says.
The new policies indicate the league is taking a more aggressive stance than it did last season. Though the NFL avoided cancellations in 2020, more than a dozen games were postponed, some by weeks, due to outbreaks among players.
The NFL schedule has little wiggle room. Over the course of 18 weeks, teams must play 17 games, leaving little flexibility for rescheduling once requirements for travel time and adequate rest between games are factored in.
Postponements in 2020 required complicated reshuffling of schedules and bye weeks, and frequently shortened or lengthened time between games, occasionally pitting a team on short rest against a team coming off of two weeks away.
"Every club is obligated under the Constitution and Bylaws to have its team ready to play at the scheduled time and place. A failure to do so is deemed conduct detrimental. There is no right to postpone a game," the memo reads.
The policy also places any burdens, competitive or financial, caused by the postponement or cancellation of a game onto the team whose outbreak caused it, addressing a frequent complaint from 2020 from teams whose schedules were rearranged to accommodate the postponements of games caused by other teams' outbreaks.
Though the cancellation policy is most dramatic, the league's announcement includes other measures to pressure teams into achieving higher vaccination rates.
Teams with outbreaks among unvaccinated players will be at risk of fines. The league will only cover testing costs up to a point, after which clubs are responsible. Outbreaks among vaccinated players or personnel will be treated less harshly.
It’s in the news now
Rams on tuesday
Majority of NFL players reportedly want to eliminate COVID-19 protocols, but NFLPA leaders disagree
The majority of NFL players are done with COVID-19 protocols. Players have reportedly expressed that sentiment to the NFLPA, but leaders in the union don't share that opinion, according to Tom Pelissero of NFL Network.
That news comes as the NFL grapples with a league-wide COVID-19 outbreak. Over 100 players were placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list ahead of Week 15. The Cleveland Browns, Los Angeles Rams and Washington Football team are among the clubs with at least 20 players on that list.
The NFL is reportedly moving games due to the positive tests. The league already altered protocols to allow vaccinated, asymptomatic players to return to action after one negative COVID-19 test, but the growing number of new positive tests around the league led to more drastic actions.
Some players, like Browns wide receiver Jarvis Landry, pushed for that result after his team was hit hard by the virus.
Landry's teammate, quarterback Baker Mayfield, took a different approach, ripping the NFL over its policy. Mayfield claimed Browns players were not tested Thursday morning, allowed to practice and then told they had to take COVID-19 tests. Mayfield argued that approach didn't make sense.
His story was backed up by multiple reports, which suggested either the Browns or the NFL pushed for only symptomatic players to be tested for COVID-19. NFLPA leaders reportedly stepped in and called for all players to be tested, which led to Mayfield's confusion. JC Tretter, the Browns' starting center, is the NFLPA president.
Tretter's position was called into question by multiple players following the postponements, lending credence to the report players are at odds with the NFLPA. Both Quandre Diggs and KJ Wright took swipes at the PA over the postponements.
Las Vegas Raiders cornerback Casey Heyward escalated the situation, suggesting Tretter pushed for a postponement because the Browns were at a disadvantage due to their COVID-19 outbreak.
Bruce Arians pushes for more lax protocols
It's not just players who are reportedly pushing the NFLPA for more lax protocols. Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians said Friday players who are asymptomatic should be allowed to play.
If you have COVID-19 but are asymptomatic, you can still spread the virus, per the World Health Organization.
Oh, yea.
Again, forget it