2020 Pats: Cam Tests Positive
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It gives time for a second round of negative tests for the rest of the Pats. Everyone but Cam tested negative already in the most recent test.
It isn't. I have to imagine KC will talk up about this. This needs to be rescheduled under the end of the year and the playoffs need to be pushed back. They need 1-2 weeks for makeup games.
I completely agree. BB just said the other day that Cam is a constant presence in the building. He could have caught it from any number of people (and then spread it around, unfortunately).
Yeah, Cam is probably the most social person on the team. I’m surprised no more negative tests, to be honest.
I said it another thread during week one, but training camps are like mini-bubbles for each team, so it actually wasn't all that surprising that the NFL made it to the start of the season relatively unscathed. The true test was always going to be once the season started and teams began traveling. So far the results are, uh, not great.
They could push Chiefs Bills from Thursday to Sunday
edit: rearrange on the fly ... it's the only way
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To add substance: imagine the counterfactual where one Viking tested positive this week (that's what really blew the Cardinals story into the stratosphere, I think). No way would this game happen. I think the NFL and the NFLPA are basing a lot on one game situation. But they're the ones taking the risks, and I would have postponed all sports, so I'm clearly too conservative.
They got rid of the pre super bowl bye the year of 9/11, right? Feel like that’s a certainty and additional makeup weeks are inevitable.
They could tack a few weeks on at the end and give us the dream scenario of a Super Bowl MLK weekend, on a non-worknight. Give a taste of that once and we're never going back.
I believe the reason they didn't push the Superbowl back one week is because the Superdome was booked for a massive conference the following week. Should be no such scheduling conflicts next Spring for the NFL to do anything they want with schedule manipulation.
I've always felt the biggest challenge for the NFL was the number of people involved on each team. There must be somewhere north of 200 people for each team between players, coaches, assistants, and other clubhouse and stadium personnel.
I thought NFL did actually get that conference postponed by a week; it was an auto dealers' conference if I'm not mistaken, which was a big deal, as it usually happens just prior to the big sales push that begins on President's Day weekend.
Are even sure it is a positive test? Didn't the NFL have issues with false positives earlier this year?
Kind of the risk you take when you buy tickets to a game in the middle of a pandemic when half the teams aren't even allowing fans.
There was no bye week prior to the Super Bowl that year. There was massive negotiations, I understand the Ford family which owns the Lions helped quite a bit.
Anyway, the Super Bowl was pushed. And in this case, it can be pushed and I believe the NFL will get as many extra weeks as they need.
Are the museums (Negro League, Jazz, World War I) open?
Eat lots of BBQ if you're not a vegetarian.
Is transmission between teams even all that relevant? An outbreak within a team seems like enough to throw a season into chaos and- as noted above- the time between the first Titans positive and the latest positives was six days.
Why didn't the virus consider how boring my life is and that this game was all I had to look forward to this week?
How would tacking weeks on to the end get us to MLK weekend? That’s in January and the SB is in February. The Conference Championship games typically happen on MLK weekend, though.
That does not sound like a coincidence.
But seriously just cancel the game. Some teams will play 16 games and some will play 14 or 15. Lets not overthink this. It’s not the end of the world if they do that.
ED: if they have some pre-existing protocol that allows it to be played by Tuesday that’s fine. Otherwise just move on.
I feel your pain. KC weather during the AFC CG is much colder.
I'd walk around the Plaza area. If too many unmasked and undistanced there, I'm sure the MCI parking lot is fairly empty.
Overland Park and Olathe are decent suburbs IIRC, but without a car, it kinda sucks.
Can you ask the flight attendants on seeing if you can get on the plane back?
Kansas has a mask mandate, so that side of KC should be ok, I'm not sure about the Missouri side.
So sorry, man. That totally sucks
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g44535-Activities-Kansas_City_Missouri.html.
Oh, right. Well, that would be nice. I’ve definitely worked some places that give Monday after the super bowl off. Or a show up at 1pm deal.
thanks. we rebooked to weds am just in case and are looking for things to do here in the meantime. especially somewhere to watch the games tomorrow.
i'm a veg, but going to a bbq place called char tonight that has lots of good veggie options. so i'm excited.
maybe your hotel room, where you can stay the F away from the mouth breathers?
FYI, you still live in IL?
You will be forced to quarantine when you get back home.
https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/sites/covid-19/home/emergency-travel-order.html
Are Gates BBQ and Arthur Bryant's still there? It was almost 20 years ago when I was last there but those were like the dueling legendary KC barbeque places and they were both fantastic. I think I read one of them closed.
NLBM is open. Definitely worth a visiti'm a veg, but going to a bbq place called char tonight that has lots of good veggie options. so i'm excited.
Bryant’s is amazing
I get that that’s an option that MAY be easy. But until you know how many games you are going to need to make up for how many teams and whether or not there are outbreaks in the actual playoffs, well, you don’t know for sure that moving the Super Bowl back a week or two or three or four will actually be easier. My plan gets you there on time until the playoffs at least.
Ed: also plans that make the season LONGER increase the odds of more outbreaks.
Sorry, I meant in terms of a player getting COVID-19 from an opposing player on the field, court, rink, pitch, whatever. I think there's one possible NBA case from back in March, but it's fuzzy for me.
