John Harbaugh's thoughts on the NFL virus guidelines.

**The Excellector** · 06-11-2020, 10:59 PM

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...nes-impossible

There are some pretty honest quotes in the piece.

**Captain Silver** · 06-11-2020, 11:14 PM

Originally Posted by The Excellector

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...nes-impossible

There are some pretty honest quotes in the piece.

Pretty much what a lot of us have been saying for months, but we aren't in the NFL or famous, or rich.

**Entropy** · 06-12-2020, 12:54 AM

The purpose of distancing is to prevent an asymptomatic infected player from spreading it through the team and potentially throughout the league. If you’re certain that none of the players are infected, then there is no need for distancing between each other.

I think the solution is to sufficiently rule out infection among the players, coaches and anyone else in close contact and then strictly quarantine together. For a player’s salary, I’d be willing to quarantine through the football season.

**JimZipCode** · 06-12-2020, 12:56 AM

Originally Posted by Entropy

I think the solution is to sufficiently rule out infection among the players, coaches and anyone else in close contact and then strictly quarantine together. For a player’s salary, I’d be willing to quarantine through the football season.

The monastic life. For 25yo young men, most of them married and with young children.

It's not gonna fly.

**Entropy** · 06-12-2020, 12:57 AM

Originally Posted by JimZipCode

The monastic life. For 25yo young men, most of them married and with young children.

It's not gonna fly.

If it’s either monastic life for 8 or 9 months or no football at all?

**Ravenswintitle** · 06-12-2020, 08:44 AM

same thing we were discussing this week and other times. Maybe have half the team one day, half the other or something like that. He's right, it's ultimately impossible. There will be contact

**seraph** · 06-12-2020, 09:51 AM

Sports shouldn't be happening at all.

**GOTA** · 06-12-2020, 10:15 AM

What are the pro wrestlers doing? Since this started they've all seemed to be down in Florida and wrestling. Are they all living in one giant house? They're wearing the equivalent of swimsuits and crawling all over each other. How are they able to keep their performers safe and other sports where the guys are a lot more covered up and have a lot less contact aren't?

**Bhcforlife** · 06-12-2020, 10:23 AM

Originally Posted by GOTA

What are the pro wrestlers doing? Since this started they've all seemed to be down in Florida and wrestling. Are they all living in one giant house? They're wearing the equivalent of swimsuits and crawling all over each other. How are they able to keep their performers safe and other sports where the guys are a lot more covered up and have a lot less contact aren't?

Don't know about WWE but AEW tests the day of the show. Talent flies/drives in if they aren't local, they get tested at the venue, and they are given wristbands that show they tested negative. The thing is this is once a week for them when they tape the show and it's like 50-100 people. They keep them safe because they can test every single person involved and have the knowledge nobody has it - business as normal after that. Scale is the difference between wrestling and NFL.

How are you doing it in the NFL where the team is together pretty much every day of the week? Are you testing every day when players come to the facility? Are you testing once a week? Are you testing everyone, players, staff, Front Office, employees at the facilities? We're talking quite a lot of tests being necessary in that case - over 28K to test just the active roster of every team once a week, not including coaches, FO, or facility personnel. NFL will have to figure this out.

**Captain Silver** · 06-12-2020, 12:09 PM

This is nonsense. The NFL should be exempt from Covid-19 restrictions. What happens when one player comes down with it in November? Do they quarantine the entire team for two weeks? How does that play out forfeiting two games down the stretch?

This is why this entire thing is a fiasco. Either disregard the virus and get on with life as we know it or quit life.

**Matchstick** · 06-12-2020, 12:11 PM

Before I'll believe the NFL will actually be able to play this year, they're going to have to put out what their protocol will be when a player tests positive, since that is 100% going to happen at some point, probably with every team and probably multiple times.

Like, what happens when a player tests positive on a Sunday game day morning? Does that player just sit out, while the game goes on?

They can't pretend any and all the masking/social distancing measures they take are going to keep any team COVID-free, because that's unrealistic. So, what exactly is the plan when the positives happen?

They need to have that procedure down to fine granular detail before they even start training camp, or any hopes of playing the season will quickly evaporate.

**Entropy** · 06-12-2020, 12:40 PM

Originally Posted by Captain Silver

This is nonsense. The NFL should be exempt from Covid-19 restrictions. What happens when one player comes down with it in November? Do they quarantine the entire team for two weeks? How does that play out forfeiting two games down the stretch?

This is why this entire thing is a fiasco. Either disregard the virus and get on with life as we know it or quit life.

Whether it should be mandated by law or not, the players are the NFL’s most important assets and it serve them well to protect the players. This a very contagious disease. Even mild symptoms can really knock you out. Imagine if half of a team got the flu at once. And if just one player or coach ends up on the ventilator, there would be a huge outcry and threats to shut down the entire operation.

There really is no practical way for distancing and any implementation would only window dressing. I still think that quarantine is the only real solution.