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COVID and the NFL

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Per ESPN:

58 positive tests (20 players, 38 other team personnel) among more than 330,000 NFL tests administered between Aug. 1 and Sept. 26.
There were 26 positives (11 players, 15 personnel) between Sept. 27 and Oct. 3, and the bulk of those came from Tennessee.

23 positive cases on the Titans.
Cases for the best offensive and defensive player on the Patriots.
Now the Jets supposedly have a positive test and the Cardinals flight East is temporarily on hold.

The Steelers-Titans Week 4 game was easy to move. It slides back to Week 7, when the Titans would have had their bye, while the Week 7 Steelers-Ravens game slides back to Week 8, when those two teams would have had their byes.

The Patriots and Chiefs were able to move their Week 4 game back one day, from Sunday to Monday, in the wake of Cam Newton's positive test last Friday.

The league is juggling Week 5 and Week 6 schedules, but so far believes it can get away with changing dates, and not weeks, for Bills-Titans, Broncos-Patriots and Chiefs-Bills.

It won't always be this easy. After this week, four teams -- the Packers, Lions, Titans and Steelers -- will already have had their bye weeks. After next week, four more will have, and so on. As the bye weeks disappear, so do the easiest ways to reschedule games.
 

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The nfl should’ve built in additional bye weeks (including one after the regular season) to protect against this.

plus they could easily save time By not having a week off before the sb.
 
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The nfl should’ve built in additional bye weeks (including one after the regular season) to protect against this.

plus they could easily save time By not having a week off before the sb.

Agreed. IF this is as bad as it gets. 3/4’s of the season remains.
 

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