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Do you see NFL season starting w/o delays?
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Section446
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Man, I hope so. It is an inconvenience to be missing the NBA and NHL, I don't think I could handle missing out on football.
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as much as I love football and my Cowboys, until the nation is clearly recovered, I don't see games being played...not under these circumstances. It would be very bad optics for the league. THAT SAID, Lets pray that this thing is vanquished before August so we can go about our lives and MAYBE have sports again.
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Players, coaches and any other persons involved will be tested. As was mentioned in another post, if healthy there is no reason to have some sort of OTA's and TC.
By the time the season starts, IMO, all should be fine, it will be a choice if people still want to come out to watch games.
Certain areas could open up for normal activities in the next few weeks to 6 weeks. Some areas will take longer for people to come back out, so will the NFL hold back team activities for all teams until every area is back up and running, at least for areas with teams. Or do they allow each team make their own choice. I believe competitive advantage will come into play and it will be all or none to open facilities.
I do not see the season being cancelled, unless also as mentioned, treated as if a strike and the games from the start may get canceled and may be a 12 or 14 game season.
Look at it this way, if the 1st game is not played, we will not have to see us open against the Giants.
However the schedule is in the process (there is that word) of being made, so do they delay the division games now until later on in the season.
By the time the season starts, IMO, all should be fine, it will be a choice if people still want to come out to watch games.
Certain areas could open up for normal activities in the next few weeks to 6 weeks. Some areas will take longer for people to come back out, so will the NFL hold back team activities for all teams until every area is back up and running, at least for areas with teams. Or do they allow each team make their own choice. I believe competitive advantage will come into play and it will be all or none to open facilities.
I do not see the season being cancelled, unless also as mentioned, treated as if a strike and the games from the start may get canceled and may be a 12 or 14 game season.
Look at it this way, if the 1st game is not played, we will not have to see us open against the Giants.
However the schedule is in the process (there is that word) of being made, so do they delay the division games now until later on in the season.
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no fear, no panic is key...I'm in that group. BUT...all I am saying,logically, how can they proceed on schedule under these conditions going on around them? THE PR would be awful for the NFL. I am hoping this calms down way before August.
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that's true
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This for Generation X'ers
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A coin flip at this point. Camps will be delayed and if the NFL is smart they will shorten preseason over delaying the regular season
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The people have no say in the matter, it is politicians that are closing things.
If I say enough is enough right now it doesnt mean or change anything.
If the govt says no nfl, then that is not a choice it is forced on us. Same for everything else.
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We don't know how things will play out, of course, but on a logistical level, I think football is one of the easier sports to ramp up and play.
It has the biggest roster/bench of all the major sports and it's the easiest sport to feasibly make substitutions whenever you please, so the concept of "game shape" is very fluid.
It's also the sport with the most days between games, for recovery purposes.
Then again, those advantages depend on teams and players not being too hard-headed or stupid to avail themselves of the benefits of reduced snap counts and recovery days.
Baseball is the sport facing the most logistical headaches, I think, with special attention needing to be paid to making sure pitchers arms are properly worked up. If they get cute rushing the prep time, teams whose manager and pitching coach aren't wise about how hard to push pitchers are gonna ruin some guys' arms and possibly de-rail a few careers. And on top of the unique pitching arm issues, they're the sport with the most densely packed schedule so it's a real grind with constant travel and rare days off.
I read a piece talking to Braves' old pitching coach, Leo Mazzone, about the special attention he had to pay to this stuff when he managed the workload for his pitchers in a shortened, delayed baseball season and it makes you realize how much thought good coaches and teams will put into this stuff. Which of course makes you think about how little thought the worse coaches and teams will put into it, at their own peril.
It has the biggest roster/bench of all the major sports and it's the easiest sport to feasibly make substitutions whenever you please, so the concept of "game shape" is very fluid.
It's also the sport with the most days between games, for recovery purposes.
Then again, those advantages depend on teams and players not being too hard-headed or stupid to avail themselves of the benefits of reduced snap counts and recovery days.
Baseball is the sport facing the most logistical headaches, I think, with special attention needing to be paid to making sure pitchers arms are properly worked up. If they get cute rushing the prep time, teams whose manager and pitching coach aren't wise about how hard to push pitchers are gonna ruin some guys' arms and possibly de-rail a few careers. And on top of the unique pitching arm issues, they're the sport with the most densely packed schedule so it's a real grind with constant travel and rare days off.
I read a piece talking to Braves' old pitching coach, Leo Mazzone, about the special attention he had to pay to this stuff when he managed the workload for his pitchers in a shortened, delayed baseball season and it makes you realize how much thought good coaches and teams will put into this stuff. Which of course makes you think about how little thought the worse coaches and teams will put into it, at their own peril.
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Oh yeah,
I would expect that mini camps get shelved but the rest continues as planned.
This "storm" upon us will pass with warmer days ahead.
I would expect that mini camps get shelved but the rest continues as planned.
This "storm" upon us will pass with warmer days ahead.
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in this world today I think looking ahead that many months is not something I would do its really hard to say but I think there is a good chance there is no football there will be a huge financial collapse chances of shortages its not looking very good
