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The NFl wants to make sure the Steelers get an easy win so they will not delay to week 18. Its one thing to let the Broncos play as they will not be in the playoffs. For us though it could easily ruin our chances at the playoffs.
 
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So apparently part of the thrust for this newest delay is that a large enough number of players were legitimately threatening a wildcat strike and refusing to play on Tuesday night

which is 100% fair enough if we were still getting positives and a generally unsafe working environment and circumstances
 
ravenslord said:
Watch the injuries pile up. Oh and don't compare your business to a NFL team. Apples and oranges.
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Who cares if the injuries pile up? Why play football at all if you're worried about injuries? Sorry but this "take" just makes no sense.

I'm not comparing any businesses. You're the one out here telling Steve what to do with his money. Hard to argue that's a smart move.
 
rmcjacket23 said:
Who cares if the injuries pile up? Why play football at all if you're worried about injuries? Sorry but this "take" just makes no sense.

I'm not comparing any businesses. You're the one out here telling Steve what to do with his money. Hard to argue that's a smart move.[/

the NFL is not your typical business chief .
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Next Monday's Schedule of games. Ravens and Steelers both play at 5PM on Monday Dec 7th with the original MNF game of Bills-49ers kicking off at 8PM. This is a mess, the NFL better hope they don't have to reschedule this any further.

 
Nope, its not. Which is why you're not qualified to be telling those business owners what they should be doing what their money, chief.
 
Simba said:
Oh it's definitely our fault. I'm not going to sit here and absolve the Ravens by any means. I have strong doubts that Saunders was the only one that broke protocol - there had to be more at play for this many guys to have had it at this point. And if it is more against us than this one incident that has spread as wide as it has, well then place more blame on us. But I also don't think you can send a team on a plane, on busses, in hotels, and to a game knowing damn well that we've had 8 straight days of positive tests. Yes, it sucks for the Steelers but consider the alternative if they do not have this under control. And right now, it's hard to believe they do have anything under control.

Force us to play with a team full of practice squad guys? Sure, IF you can confirm that the outbreak has stopped. Right now, I have 0 confidence that is actually the case and the NFL would be foolish to think so, especially with some of the public statements they've given that have turned out to be wrong so far.

Also have to say that the NFL protocols are definitely broken. I can't remember who tweeted it, but one respected NFL reporter got a text from a FO exec who said that the contact tracing is a joke. They have all of this stuff that looks great on paper but there's no consistency in how they're applying these protocols. They're stuck with money in their minds.
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Like OK, I have no doubt there's wholes in the plan and enforcement is inconsistent, etc.

That being said... you won't be able sell me on the idea that their contact tracing is at least largely a factor in why they really haven't had any large-scale outbreaks. Like its pretty much routine for almost every team in the league have a coach, staff, or player test positive on a weekly basis at this point. And yet somehow, one player testing positive has rarely developed into anything more than a singular or small group of individuals. Why is that? Well, among other factors, contact tracing.

Not to go down the political rabbit hole, but I'm not spending my time bashing the NFL for what I think are somewhat trivial failures in COVID-related protocol. Why not? Because I don't see any other companies doing a better job, and I certainly don't see our government doing a better job. Contact tracing doesn't exist for like 99% of the U.S. Casinos are some of the better Corporations I've seen do it, and they have a gigantic amount of lowered liability when it comes to positive cases. In fact, its borderline impossible to tie COVID outbreaks to specific buildings, locations, etc. in most cases. So the idea that the NFL's protocol isn't air-tight shouldn't shock anybody.

They're 10+ weeks into a season that nobody thought would happen, and the biggest impact to the league is having to move a few games around. The biggest concerns heading into the season was a) widespread contamination in a locker room where so many people were sick that a team legitimately couldn't field a roster for weeks and b) players actually getting COVID and ending up hospitalized or even dead.

Those factors really haven't played out to this point. Maybe it will, but the NFL deserves a ton of credit for putting protocol in place that, if followed, shrinks the likelihood of those things happening to minuscule levels.

I remember reading the media all offseason talk about how the NFL didn't have any policies and they weren't taking it seriously and blah blah blah. By mid-September, I realized the media was a joke.

Everybody is great at identifying problems. Most people suck-ass at identifying solutions.
 
ravenslord said:
You compared your business to the NFL . Ridiculously stupid and not comparable .
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Nope. Didn't do that at all. Nothing I said even vaguely suggested I did.

I said IF I WERE HIM. I don't have a business, and I don't tell other people what to do with their business. You, like most of the ignorant public, are exceptional at telling people what they should do from a position of precisely zero risk. For me, it fringes on cowardly behavior.

What's ridiculously stupid is suggesting that football players shouldn't play football because they might get injured. That's what's stupid.
 
Dallas game is now Tuesday, Dec 8th. Ah, 2020....never stop being you. Actually scratch that. Kindly fuck off.
 
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