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The Random Thought Thread
- Thread starter The Greek
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Really curious to see what the changes are after this onslaught of Covid positives across the league. Feels like it's a fight from the NFLPA side for more testing but then you have the NFL and their doctors noting that damn near all of these have been asymptomatic positives, so are you really going to keep "healthy" individuals from playing? If anything, it's proof that the vaccine is doing its job. Just really curious how this plays out. The NFL is still thinking on the business side obviously and the players are obviously on the safety side. Wouldn't be shocked if they just move everyone to the "enhanced protocols" for the rest of the year and only those with symptoms or those that are unvaccinated are forced to sit out.
my guess is the NFL ironically is going to advocate for less testing - and maybe even incentivising the booster by reducing testing to basically nothing for all players who take the booster unless you have symptoms...
alternatively they reduce the 10 day window to 5 days for asymptomatic positives - part of the issue they have with some of the outbreak stuff is that it's really unlikely guys will have 2 consecutive negative tests before the 10 days are up even once they've stopped shedding
but those are the only real alternatives i can think of beyond just going into enhanced protocols for everyone
and as you say this is probably more of a challenge of negotiating with the NFLPA than it is about will power from the NFL
airconteka
MVP
It will be hard creating rules around being asymptomatic.
It's about time.
BoredMarine13
Ravens Ring of Honor
Love a good trolling
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/...to-tease-blind-referees-from-buccaneers-game/
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so for now at least - this is just enhanced protocols-esque stuff with some 2020 protocols on top
nothing new here except the more varied options for testing out after a positive test - more avenues to get back quicker
https://www.espn.com/nfl/insider/in...lries-why-patrick-mahomes-justin-herbert-next
i guess i just assumed that there would be more long-term rivalries here...
was not expecting big ben vs joe flacco to appear on the list at all, let alone as high as it was...
i guess i just assumed that there would be more long-term rivalries here...
was not expecting big ben vs joe flacco to appear on the list at all, let alone as high as it was...
Good news is now that the positive guys, assuming they’re asymptomatic, could possibly be back for Sunday with the new guidance. Just can’t show any symptoms basically.
not unlike the steelers last year lol - albeit they just sucked the whole time but had an easy schedule rather than being a good team that's being chipped away at by injuries etc. like us this year
RaineV1
Ravens Ring of Honor
Just finally ran out of steam, also teams realizing our offense is just erased with heavy blitzing.
Tank
Hall of Famer
Yeah besides the torturous injury plague, we all knew how tough the end of the schedule looked. We still have a good chance to win 2 more, which I think will give us a pretty good shot at making the tournament.
JoeyFlex5
Hall of Famer
They made the playoffs though, there’s an honest chance that we don’t win another game and miss out
yup. Fucking pain.
I’m not sure we win another one. I think 2 of these games we should be beaten soundly, and the other 2 I still think we lose. I just don’t see the defense continuing at a high level with these injuries against the likes of GB, LA, and cinci, and unless there are major schematic changes and Lamar gets his head out of his ass, I don’t see our offense suddenly improving with the OL playing as it is
I think if we had just a couple more healthy players. Not asking for much, we wold win more than half the games the second half of the year and waltz into the playoffs.
think it's just the general stress of everything (injuries, omicron etc.) probably getting to people a little bit
UPennChem
Hall of Famer
Yeah I hear you. Everyone, I really appreciate you all for contributing here and I wish you all the best in your lives.
On the Ravens side, we've been snake bitten big time, but we were really able to persevere and you can tell Harbs creates a good culture and a strong next man up culture.
We're not gonna go as far as we'd have liked to but we gotta lot of draft capital and FA money coming in. We'll take it in stride and come back a hell of a lot stronger next year!