{"id":34655,"date":"2020-07-26T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T07:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nfl-coronavirus-and-less-pressing-issues-as-league-opens\/"},"modified":"2020-07-26T10:59:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T07:59:00","slug":"nfl-coronavirus-and-less-pressing-issues-as-league-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nfl-coronavirus-and-less-pressing-issues-as-league-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"#NFL, coronavirus and less pressing issues as league opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a286fa0aa392\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a286fa0aa392\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nfl-coronavirus-and-less-pressing-issues-as-league-opens\/#QB_quandaries\" >QB quandaries<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nfl-coronavirus-and-less-pressing-issues-as-league-opens\/#Other_QB_competitions\" >Other QB competitions<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nfl-coronavirus-and-less-pressing-issues-as-league-opens\/#Tampa_Tom\" >Tampa Tom<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nfl-coronavirus-and-less-pressing-issues-as-league-opens\/#Holdout_watch\" >Holdout watch<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nfl-coronavirus-and-less-pressing-issues-as-league-opens\/#What_goes_around_%E2%80%A6\" >What goes around \u2026<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nfl-coronavirus-and-less-pressing-issues-as-league-opens\/#Brees_and_peace\" >Brees and peace<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nfl-coronavirus-and-less-pressing-issues-as-league-opens\/#Kneel_with_Kaepernick\" >Kneel with Kaepernick<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nfl-coronavirus-and-less-pressing-issues-as-league-opens\/#Free_for_all\" >Free for all<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nfl-coronavirus-and-less-pressing-issues-as-league-opens\/#Run_off_Rams\" >Run off Rams<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nfl-coronavirus-and-less-pressing-issues-as-league-opens\/#Officially_trouble\" >Officially trouble<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#NFL, coronavirus and less pressing issues as league opens<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n                        Are you ready for some testing swabs?<\/p>\n<p>A quarantining party?<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve got physical exams. And light conditioning exercises. And then maybe some football for your rowdy friends. <\/p>\n<p>These are not just the worst lyrics of all-time imagined for a \u201cMonday Night Football\u201d introduction. They are the realities of operating NFL training camps during the COVID-19 pandemic, prompting one overarching question: Can it be pulled off?<\/p>\n<p>Rookies, quarterbacks and injured players began reporting to teams last week, but veterans are expected to be in place on time Tuesday, now that the league and its players association\u2019s executive committee struck an agreement on new protocols and economics to avoid delaying the start of training camps.<\/p>\n<p>Before the last-minute parameters were established Friday, some players privately felt \u201coverwhelmed,\u201d \u201cconfused\u201d and \u201cforced\u201d by the uncertainty in private conversations with The Post. Thinking it was \u201cunrealistic\u201d went out the window when MLB returned to a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ing schedule, eschewing the bubble concept employed by the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not exactly \u201cproblem solved\u201d \u2014 clauses for how to act if the season is canceled are among the many reported terms of the updated CBA \u2014 but it\u2019s a starting point.<\/p>\n<p>Players must test negative for COVID-19 twice with 72 hours in between before entering a team facility, and physicals could be split over the course of multiple days. An asymptomatic player who tests positive has to leave camp and can\u2019t return for 10 days or until testing negative twice in a five-day period, while a symptomatic player is banned for at least 10 days from the onset and 72 hours after symptoms subside.<\/p>\n<p>A 20-day acclimation period of strength and conditioning workouts and non-contact walk-throughs doesn\u2019t leave time for many true padded practices. Cue footage of old-school coaches complaining about the lack of hitting leading to sloppy play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea that this is going to go away with the snap of a finger and you don\u2019t have to change, that\u2019s not going to fly,\u201d said NFLPA president J.C. Tretter, a center for the Browns. \u201cEverything needs to be revamped and refitted to fit coronavirus. We can\u2019t refit coronavirus around football.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The four-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> preseason schedule was completely eliminated. Roster sizes for camp must be cut from 90 to 80 by Aug. 16 in the name of finding space, except if employing split-squad practices. Any player can opt out and receive a stipend instead of his full contract, with added benefits for those with health risks.<\/p>\n<p>So, some teams might not be at full strength, just like in the other sports. As of last week, NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith said no players had decided not to play.<\/p>\n<p>Fans won\u2019t be hanging around the fences at camp, but some teams still are hoping for limited capacity regular-season attendance. The wide-ranging number of new cases in different states requires non-uniformity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything that we\u2019re doing is centered around the concept of risk mitigation,\u201d NFL chief medical officer Dr. Allen Sills said. \u201cWe know that we can\u2019t eliminate risk. We know that this is going to be a shared responsibility.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Rams offensive tackle Andrew Whitworth \u2014 one of 59 players to test positive as of Tuesday, according to the union \u2014 sent shock waves through his peers when he revealed a family member went to lunch with a friend, and a couple days later he, his wife, their four children and his in-laws tested positive. His father-in-law was hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t take much,\u201d Whitworth said, \u201cand it can spread like wildfire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why some league sources told The Post the right path would have been to mandate team-wide hotel stays, like a return to yesteryear when \u201ctraining camp, essentially, is a quarantine \u2026 but instead of a hot dorm in Podunk trying to figure out how to get air in your room, you are in a luxury hotel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Remote camps were banned this year in favor of running the operation out of team headquarters. So, at least it\u2019s convenient in case someone needs to run through the doors and shout, \u201cLet\u2019s call the whole thing off!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here are 10 other NFL storylines for training camp:<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"QB_quandaries\"><\/span>QB quandaries<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Cam Newton starts, right? Newton was anointed Tom Brady\u2019s replacement by the public as soon as he signed. But the Patriots made no starting guarantee to the former MVP. It\u2019s easy to shrug off the notion of competing against Jarrett Stidham, but they wouldn\u2019t have waited until June to make a move if they weren\u2019t high on the youngster.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16038438\"><img alt=\"Cam Newton and Tom Brady\" data- data- height=\"441\" width=\"662\"><\/img><figcaption><span>Cam Newton and Tom Brady<\/span><span>Getty Images; AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Other_QB_competitions\"><\/span>Other QB competitions<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Bears\u2019 Nick Foles-Mitch Trubisky and Raiders\u2019 Derek Carr-Marcus Mariota both involve former No. 2-overall draft picks trying to salvage careers. Foles is trying to prove he can win outside of Philadelphia. Will the Chargers\u2019 Justin Herbert or Dolphins\u2019 Tua Tagovailoa win jobs as rookies from veteran challengers?<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Tampa_Tom\"><\/span>Tampa Tom<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Tom Brady learning a new offense for the first time in 20 years is fascinating. An unretired Rob Gronkowski getting back into a rhythm is fascinating. What do you call it when two future Hall of Famers are performing those tasks in the same camp run by the unpredictable Bruce Arians? All eyes on the Buccaneers.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Holdout_watch\"><\/span>Holdout watch<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The new collective bargaining agreement is harder on holdouts \u2014 no more forgiving $50,000 daily fines once a new contract is in place. The Jaguars\u2019 Yannick Ngakoue headlines the disgruntled trade-seekers. The Vikings\u2019 Dalvin Cook wants a new deal. The Saints\u2019 Alvin Kamara and Bengals\u2019 Joe Mixon could, too.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_goes_around_%E2%80%A6\"><\/span>What goes around \u2026<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A young Aaron Rodgers didn\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>reciate the cold shoulder from the great Brett Favre. Now we\u2019ll see how helpful Rodgers, 36, is to successor Jordan Love. Is Love a project or more game-ready than some think? Rodgers wanted the Packers to draft a playmaker instead. Awkward!<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Brees_and_peace\"><\/span>Brees and peace<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Drew Brees didn\u2019t retire after a third straight walk-off playoff loss because he is chasing immortality \u2014 a second Super Bowl to go with career passing records. But he angered teammates with his \u201cdisrespecting the flag\u201d comments in June. He apologized and vowed to be an ally in the fight for racial equality, but will any divisiveness linger in the locker room?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16038441\"><img alt=\"Drew Brees\" data- data- height=\"424\" width=\"664\"><\/img><figcaption><span>Drew Brees<\/span><span>Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Kneel_with_Kaepernick\"><\/span>Kneel with Kaepernick<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Commissioner Roger Goodell endorsed a team signing Colin Kaepernick. Several coaches say he deserves another chance. So, who\u2019s going to give it to him? Will he take it? His name will surface with every quarterback injury. Because no preseason games means no national anthem and no kneeling, how will players get across their message?<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Free_for_all\"><\/span>Free for all<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Anyone want a Pro Bowl-caliber pass-rusher or cornerback? It\u2019s beyond strange that Jadeveon Clowney, Everson Griffen and Logan Ryan remain unsigned. Yes, the pandemic made teams reluctant to spend, but good players still get paid. Clowney and Griffen fit the Seahawks and Titans. Ryan fits the Giants, Jets, Lions and Dolphins.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Run_off_Rams\"><\/span>Run off Rams<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Todd Gurley\u2019s release at a $20.1 million dead-money, salary-cap hit was stunning, even with the Rams trending downward. Gurley led the NFL in yards from scrimmage in 2017 and rushing touchdowns in 2018, as the Rams went to the Super Bowl. Did injuries finish him that quickly? Or did the Falcons get a free-agent steal?<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Officially_trouble\"><\/span>Officially trouble<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Fans who say they will stop taking the joy of games for granted might last one quarter of Week 1 before complaining about officiating. No preseason is a loss for the rusty crews. Officials typically get extra work in touring camps, but there likely won\u2019t be much 11-on-11 to see until later. 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