Gilmore and Mahomes.
This seems to get worse and worse by the second.
Another Titans player tested positive, while a Raider also tested positive. Titans were expected to return to their facility today but can't do that now.
chiefs pats should never have gone ahead - the titans positive tests are showing exactly why there's a 2 week isolation period for contacts because incubation can be up to 14 days
the average incubation period is between 5-6 days so any positive result to a player where you cant prove that they had no contact with other players after a monday should automatically result in postponement of the game that weekend
the fact that cam tested positive on friday/saturday means that game should not have happened monday
I mean... they're using state-of-the-art contact tracing wristbands that all personnel are required to wear. That monitors contact distances they've had with others who are wearing that equipment.
So if their technology is telling them its isolated contact, there's really no reason not to move forward. If the fear is that once one person tests positive that a 14 day quarantine of everybody in the building is needed, then the season should just be cancelled. You'll never get through it.
The entire purpose of advanced protocols, contact tracing, and expanded rosters/rules is to allow for the fact that some teams will have outbreaks, and if protocols are followed, the games can continue.
I think that's part of it. Most of what I'm hearing isn't measures not being good enough... its measures not being followed.right but cam newton was not isolated during the time that he was supposedly infectious - they know he had close contacts but they relied on the 2 days of negative test results on everyone else as a sign that it hadnt spread and ignored the idea of an incubation period (we know that stephon gillmore was one of the people he had close contact with and lo-and-behold he's the next Pat to have it)
just because they have these tools doesnt mean they're doing everything right - so many of their protocols are about preventing infection getting into the buildings etc. which is why the season started so effectively but there's a reason they've sent out adjustments to the protocols this week - it's because the post-outbreak measures have clearly not been good enough so far
sounds like Titans protocol following has been awful generally - and potentially other protocol breaches since too...
sounds fairly self-inflicted - and if it is then i honestly think they should be forfeiting this bills game rather than being allowed to postpone it
same article different by-line thought
bad look for tannehill
I can kind of see both sides of the argument, though I think Tannehill's looks worse here.
Like these players can talk all they want about "being together" and blah blah blah, but a lot of the guys doing that talking are veterans who already have been paid and are already getting paid.
The reality is that the Titans lost a full week of practice and had a game delayed, and the league-wide and organization-wide expectation is that they're going to be prepared, ready, and performing at the highest level this weekend, with less practice and prep time than others. While I think some players would tell you they can do that, for some guys, that prep time is the difference between being great on Sunday and sucking on Sunday.
So the idea of these guys holding "private workouts" to me isn't that far fetched. These are players who likely tested negative several times, and regardless of incubation period, feel they're at no additional risk. Right or wrong, its not exactly an unreasonable take. Some of these guys may be playing for current or future jobs, paydays, etc., so this notion that they should risk their own future earnings to protect others current earnings isn't exactly realistic in my eyes.
That being said, Tannehill just signed a fat, guaranteed contract. He should know better. A bad performance on Sunday isn't likely to change his earning power even a little bit.
The other obvious caveat would be... how many of these "protocol breakers" actually tested positive? If its some or a lot, then there's a valid grievance. If all of them are negative, haven't tested positive, and don't test positive, its not nearly as big of a deal as the media makes it out to be. Its merely just "bad PR", instead of actually costing teams games.