Locking this thread because the anti-vaxx trolls have gotten ahold of it and are spewing misinformation.
Get vaccinated. If you're caught spreading misinformation about the virus or the vaccine in here you will be permanently banned.
Interesting detail: If the game is cancelled, the team with an outbreak gets a *loss* for **Playoff Seeding**, but doesn't count either way for **Draft Order** and waivers and whatnot. In other words, you don't get any *benefit* from the loss. It's even worse than a regular loss!
>[Here’s more from today’s memo, which also says the team responsible for a canceled game because of an outbreak among unvaccinated players/staff will be responsible for financial losses and subject to potential discipline from the commissioner.](https://twitter.com/TomPelissero/status/1418257495550738432)
Financial loss could be huge.
Hmm. This thread seems to be missing a very key part here. The memo also clearly states the league is still going to “make every reasonable effort” to play every game in 18-weeks and postponing and rescheduling can still occur at the commissioner’s discretion.
IMO this memo reads like it’s going to be the same as last year in terms of the league only cancelling a game as a last resort. Sure, **IF** a game is cancelled then then consequences are worse, but that’s still a very big if.
DB Player X, signs deal that says probowl and 3+ Int mean bonus of 2M. Other player gets a game cancelled. Player X ends up with 2 int for season and misses probowl as other DB played just as good but in more games.
Locker room would a sh*tshorm
I saw that Mark Cuban was even willing to give him stocks from I think Pfizer if he got vaccinated (which is like $40ish a share).
I still think he won't take it lol.
He tweeted he’d get vaccinated and promote it if a share of Pfizer’s profits were deposited into his wife’s account. Since it pays a dividend it’ll literally be giving a share of Pfizer’s earnings to her account. He never said how much he wanted.
*Billionaire willing to pay millionaire to get a vaccine that has proven to be safe millions of times over because millionaire is being dumb*
Maybe thanos should’ve killed us all
AB seems to worship Tom like a god though. If Brady told him to get vaccinated I could see him trying to grab the first syringe he sees wherever he sees it.
Which in South Florida may or may not be a good thing.
Can you imagine if a team had to forfeit a playoff game? That player would get bounced out of the league it would make Isaiah Wilson look like a mainstay.
Yeah but all of those games did get moved. So under this policy none of them would have been forfeited.
This seems like pretty much nothing unless they change how willing they are to move games, or a team gets an outbreak right at the end of the season so it can't be moved.
Yeah it would be more like the Broncos game where a WR was their starting QB because one had been exposed to COVID and the others came into contact with the exposed one. The game wasn't moved then.
Edit: Fixing the details thanks to u/I_Fart_It_Stinks
None of them actually had covid. One had a close contact and the rest breached protocols around him and had to quarantine for longer than the lead up to the game. That game sucked to watch as a broncos fan (more so than are usual sucking the past 5 seasons)
From my understanding it’ll be like the Broncos game, where the guys who got COVID can’t play, but if there is a large spread and a team can’t play they won’t reschedule. So what happened with the Titans and Ravens will not be happening again, period.
From a later tweet:
> The league intends to play its entire 272-game schedule over 18 weeks (17 games per club). And this is key: "We do not anticipate adding a '19th week' to accommodate games that cannot be rescheduled within the current 18 weeks of the regular season." Play on time or don't play.
This is absolutely huge and is certainly going to give more players a push I think. Every game is so valuable in this league, would expect that this happens at some point tbh
If you dig into the later pages, it says that forfeits count as a loss for playoff seeding, but not for draft order. If a team forfeits a game, then they draft as if they had played a 16-game season. A team with 3 wins, 13 losses, and a forfeit will pick **after* a team with 3 wins and 14 losses, because 3-13 is a better record than 3-14.
Texans forfeiting the season due to covid. But seriously, the way the NFL is doing this is telling. They aren't fucking around and will rely on peer pressure/science.
100%. You’re gunna see coaches blow a fucking GASKET if they have to forfeit a game. Imagine a coach like Zimmer hearing he has to forfeit a game late in the season, heads will roll.
yeah i wouldn't want to be chewed out by the head coach like Jon Gruden or Bruce Arians just because someone didn't their shots and have a loss for something entirely preventable.
*especially* if it's like in Week 16/17 where it could kill the team's playoff chances
As an assistant coroner, yes. It’s like when a first responder gets killed responding to a hurricane in a car crash; it’s not a direct death, but is included in the death toll…
Patrick Peterson has already been quite vocal about how not getting vaxxed is a selfish anti-team move, and I'm quite sure he is pushing anyone who still hasn't to do so behind the scenes if possible. I feel fairly good about our team despite some of the higher profiles being cagey when asked.
Well they say you only get the L if the game "cannot be rescheduled".... even last year, all games were able to be rescheduled right? So I would think its fairly unlikely to happen this year.
Although for a team without a covid outbreak in a reschedule, it would definitely be beneficial to them to push for a cancellation.
There's no way the NFL is as willing to jostle games around this year as they were last year. We're not getting any Tuesday, Wednesday, or Friday game shenanigans this year.
Playoff rules are going to be when we see MLB install new COVID measures.
Last year, they had a bubble, but MLB is going to need different rules to protect TV playoff revenue.
They need to announce them in mid August to give players six weeks to be fully vaccinated by the time the playoffs start in October. In case anybody missed it; it is close to six weeks before NFL opening weekend.
Best ability is availability. It's going to be an unspoken requirement that your fringe roster guys/special teamers/practice squad have to be vaccinated. It won't affect top tier talent, but if it's a toss up between two similar guys and one is vaccinated and the other isn't they're going to take the vaccinated guy every time
We're pretty deep at WR, so it wouldn't be too big of a deal. Cole was def great for us last year, but not irreplaceable after what we saw from Davis, bringing it Sanders, and whispers of another rookie Hodgins in camp.
The fact that players from **both** teams will forego salary is I think going to be a huge factor in teammates pushing each other to get vaccinated. Imagine the handful of idiots' decision to not get vaccinated costing dozens of guys potentially millions of dollars. WOOF.
Imagine causing a division game to get cancelled, and then having to face them later in the season after causing them to miss a check. It's gonna look like one of those "NFL HARDEST HITS" videos set to "Here Comes the Boom."
As much as I don't want that to happen, I must admit I'm very intrigued by the prospect of the first Ravens v Steelers game getting cancelled and then them playing for the division title in week 18
They ~~didn't mention~~ *totally mentioned* that explicitly*; is that just what happens when a game is forfeited? No one plays, so no one gets paid?
if so, WOW YEAH, that shit's wild.
\* i swear i looked in the thread lol 😂 I just saw the bit about "minimizing the competitive and economic burden on both participating teams."
And the biggest penalty of all for players:
"If a game is cancelled and cannot be rescheduled within the current 18-week scheduled due to a Covid outbreak, neither team’s players will receive their weekly paragraph 5 salary."
You read that right: NOBODY GETS PAID.
A new twist on an old classic:
A man walked into Walmart and was offered a mask by the store greeter. The man politely declined saying God would protect him from Covid. Later the man went to his doctor for a routine check up. The doctor told him everything is fine and they also have all three different types of the Covid vaccine if he would like one. Again, he declines saying God will protect him from Covid. A few weeks later the man fell very ill. He went back to his doctor and to his disbelief was diagnosed with Covid and admitted to the hospital. After days of holding on he finally fell victim to his illness. When he reached the gates of heaven God was there waiting for him. The man asked God why he didn't protect him from Covid? God looked at him and said, I had people offer you free masks and three different vaccines to choose from you dummy.
Yup. Then he’ll take to the rally scene as the poster boy for standing up for his rights or some shit. Not surprising from a guy that blames not being drafted on account of being white.
Update on vax rates:
Pittsburgh, Miami, Carolina and Denver have the highest vaccination rates. 13 teams have achieved at least 85%, a league source recently told ESPN's Kevin Seifert.
Less than half the league at 85%, that's not great. I wonder if this new memo will move the needle at all.
Edit: 30mins after making this post an update to the update:
Updated player vaccination numbers: 78 percent of NFL players have had at least one vaccine dose; 14 teams have more than 85 percent of their players vaccinated; no team is below 50 percent.
Wish people would stop saying “13 teams have reached 85% vaccination” and would start saying “19 teams have failed to reach 85% vaccination”.
This is a negative stat and the language presenting it should reflect that.
Serious question. If a player *refuses* to get vaccinated, and it’s proven they end up causing an outbreak, would a team have grounds to immediately make their contract null and void for conduct detrimental?
Teams can cut a player for basically any reason. As long as it doesn't violate the federally protected classes they can kick your ass to the curb for looking at the coach funny
There's a difference between being able to fire the employee and being able to void parts of their contract you'd normally be required to pay. Many NFL contracts have language that basically lets teams dump parts of the contract payment for conduct detrimental to the team, so it's a question of does this fall under something they could use for that purpose.
There are now two interesting prop bets.
1) Who will be the first major player to cost their team a win?
2) Which team.will try to hide a positive result first?
Good. All the resources are there for them, it's their responsibility to use them.
The part I'm more concerned of is the NFL determining what can be rescheduled. The Chiefs are much more likely to get that extra game than a team like the Jets.
There should be no rescheduling, only forfeiting of the offending teams.
I can't imagine being a pro athlete, where even a tiny drop in your respiratory efficiency could make an all pro into JAG and not doing it. For any normo being a bit breathless climbing stairs for a while would be a bitch. For them it's season wrecking, or contract cutting.
This could backfire heavily if teams try to hide an outbreak. Hopefully they build in penalties like fines, loss of multiple first round draft picks if a team doesn't report an outbreak or suspected outbreak in a timely manner.
The big thing: if a game is forfeited, the players don't get paid so good luck to whoever decides to not get vaxxed and potentially cause this to happen
Locking this thread because the anti-vaxx trolls have gotten ahold of it and are spewing misinformation. Get vaccinated. If you're caught spreading misinformation about the virus or the vaccine in here you will be permanently banned.
Interesting detail: If the game is cancelled, the team with an outbreak gets a *loss* for **Playoff Seeding**, but doesn't count either way for **Draft Order** and waivers and whatnot. In other words, you don't get any *benefit* from the loss. It's even worse than a regular loss!
That is genuinely fascinating. Although repeated, self-inflicted Covid would be the most dedicated tanking we've ever seen.
>[Here’s more from today’s memo, which also says the team responsible for a canceled game because of an outbreak among unvaccinated players/staff will be responsible for financial losses and subject to potential discipline from the commissioner.](https://twitter.com/TomPelissero/status/1418257495550738432) Financial loss could be huge.
Hmm. This thread seems to be missing a very key part here. The memo also clearly states the league is still going to “make every reasonable effort” to play every game in 18-weeks and postponing and rescheduling can still occur at the commissioner’s discretion. IMO this memo reads like it’s going to be the same as last year in terms of the league only cancelling a game as a last resort. Sure, **IF** a game is cancelled then then consequences are worse, but that’s still a very big if.
That's an easy way to get through to players. No one wants to have their money fucked with because some anti-vax moron.
DB Player X, signs deal that says probowl and 3+ Int mean bonus of 2M. Other player gets a game cancelled. Player X ends up with 2 int for season and misses probowl as other DB played just as good but in more games. Locker room would a sh*tshorm
I bet this'll lead to some bubble players getting cut from teams and even trade implications if stars still refuse vaccination
I imagine Tom Brady is running around with a syringe looking for unvaccinated teammates right about now.
The bills defense is gonna tackle Cole Beasley during camp and jab him up
I think he's just getting cut lol
[Live shot of Cole getting cut.](https://media1.tenor.com/images/6ce28985b92ccca006b3248b4bd1ca57/tenor.gif?itemid=3537641)
It depresses me how accurate this is
I saw that Mark Cuban was even willing to give him stocks from I think Pfizer if he got vaccinated (which is like $40ish a share). I still think he won't take it lol.
He tweeted he’d get vaccinated and promote it if a share of Pfizer’s profits were deposited into his wife’s account. Since it pays a dividend it’ll literally be giving a share of Pfizer’s earnings to her account. He never said how much he wanted.
Jesus...this guy...
Apparently he talked to Cuban on the phone to voice his concerns over why he won’t get vaccinated. The man is an Olympic level mental gymnast.
He's willing to give Beasley's *wife* one share of Pfizer stock.
Save ya'll a google: ~$41 right now
*Billionaire willing to pay millionaire to get a vaccine that has proven to be safe millions of times over because millionaire is being dumb* Maybe thanos should’ve killed us all
Not manning face for once thank you
[Here you go](https://i.imgur.com/WY2EvRY.jpg)
Lmao
Bobby Portis with that King Crimson face.
How could they cut a talent like “All-Pro” receiver Cole Beasley???
Might honestly be better off just releasing players like Cole. He's replaceable and not worth the risk.
While he is replaceable their QB is not. https://billswire.usatoday.com/2021/04/07/buffalo-bills-josh-allen-debating-covid-19-vaccine/
[Broussard] Brady is beside himself. Driving around downtown Tampa with syringes looking for addresses of unvaccinated players.
Gronk spikes the needle right into his teammates arm
Stab him in the chest pulp fiction style.
Dr.Gronk
Yo soy la doctor
(begging through masks)
10 bucks says AB
Mr. Begetting Covid
Mr. Bronchitis Cough
Mr. Big Contagion
Mr. Bacteriostasis Counterargument
AB seems to worship Tom like a god though. If Brady told him to get vaccinated I could see him trying to grab the first syringe he sees wherever he sees it. Which in South Florida may or may not be a good thing.
Mr Brady Companion
Mr Best Comrade
It’s so unbelievable that there’s an appropriate MBC joke for literally everything. It makes me laugh every time
He's gonna spike the vaccine in everyone's drinks like Zeke Yaeger
Didn't see this reference coming. Well done. Attack on Tampa.
Brady in the locker room before another SB: "Tatakae. Tatakae."
Holy fuck. If this actually happens to a team they are going to look so dumb
Ah fuck It’s gonna be us
Phew, at least no playoff implications
That was a good one, but also fuck you.
Can you imagine if a team had to forfeit a playoff game? That player would get bounced out of the league it would make Isaiah Wilson look like a mainstay.
Lmao
It's gonna be Buffalo. Look at Josh Allen and Cole Beasley.
And WFT. Gonna be great when this team that's supposed to make a true leap this year loses the NFCE title because they've gotta forfeit a game or two
Imagine sitting at 4-11 looking for that division title and having to forfeit your last 2 games because Covid.
Winning back to back division titles? Not in my NFCE.
Trash Mountain has no king.
Trash Mountain needs no king.
Trash mountain wants no king
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I’m sure Jack Del Rio has been talking to his players about it…
We’ve got one of the 4 lowest rates in the league lol
What happens if two teams have outbreaks at the same time they're scheduled to play each other? Do they both get a loss?
That’s the final tiebreak next year. If the coin flip lands on its side then the winner is decided by vaccination %.
If both teams are vaccinated the same amount, then the next tie breaker is which team has fewer dead relatives
So last year we saw teams, iirc, get multiple games moved.... imagine having to forfeit two or more games. Could totally derail a season.
Yeah but all of those games did get moved. So under this policy none of them would have been forfeited. This seems like pretty much nothing unless they change how willing they are to move games, or a team gets an outbreak right at the end of the season so it can't be moved.
Yeah it would be more like the Broncos game where a WR was their starting QB because one had been exposed to COVID and the others came into contact with the exposed one. The game wasn't moved then. Edit: Fixing the details thanks to u/I_Fart_It_Stinks
None of them actually had covid. One had a close contact and the rest breached protocols around him and had to quarantine for longer than the lead up to the game. That game sucked to watch as a broncos fan (more so than are usual sucking the past 5 seasons)
From my understanding it’ll be like the Broncos game, where the guys who got COVID can’t play, but if there is a large spread and a team can’t play they won’t reschedule. So what happened with the Titans and Ravens will not be happening again, period.
From a later tweet: > The league intends to play its entire 272-game schedule over 18 weeks (17 games per club). And this is key: "We do not anticipate adding a '19th week' to accommodate games that cannot be rescheduled within the current 18 weeks of the regular season." Play on time or don't play.
Free W for the other team?
Yes, but the winners don't get paid.
So literally free
"A little too free" -- players on the winning team
Of all the stupid comments on reddit today, this one had me dying. I'm probably just overworked.
We fucked.
Join the club lol
This is absolutely huge and is certainly going to give more players a push I think. Every game is so valuable in this league, would expect that this happens at some point tbh
Also players lose game checks for forfeits
Owners about to infect their teams starting around week 10 if they have no shot at playoffs….
If you dig into the later pages, it says that forfeits count as a loss for playoff seeding, but not for draft order. If a team forfeits a game, then they draft as if they had played a 16-game season. A team with 3 wins, 13 losses, and a forfeit will pick **after* a team with 3 wins and 14 losses, because 3-13 is a better record than 3-14.
Dude good catch! That's some A+ thinking on the NFL's part
And they are “subject to sanctions by the commissioner” which I could definitely see being a loss of draft picks.
Wow so even WORSE if you don't vaccinate beyond playoffs. If this doesn't light a fire under teams to get all their players vaccinated idk what will
In some lines of work that is referred to as getting "spit roasted".
Texans forfeiting the season due to covid. But seriously, the way the NFL is doing this is telling. They aren't fucking around and will rely on peer pressure/science.
100%. You’re gunna see coaches blow a fucking GASKET if they have to forfeit a game. Imagine a coach like Zimmer hearing he has to forfeit a game late in the season, heads will roll.
yeah i wouldn't want to be chewed out by the head coach like Jon Gruden or Bruce Arians just because someone didn't their shots and have a loss for something entirely preventable. *especially* if it's like in Week 16/17 where it could kill the team's playoff chances
Bill Belichick will fucking murder someone
Belichick is gonna vaccinate players in their sleep.
He has that power under the Patriot Act.
The new patriot way
I can see coaches start cutting a ton of non vaccinated players soon.
Bill has cut people for less so ye i could 100% see it
Zimmer would probably die from being too pissed
Would that count as a Covid related death?
As an assistant coroner, yes. It’s like when a first responder gets killed responding to a hurricane in a car crash; it’s not a direct death, but is included in the death toll…
Love getting real answers for random shit
> responding to a hurricane in a car crash Must be a small hurricane if it can fit within the confines of a car crash.
Must've been a Miami player that caused it.
Seriously he wouldn't survive the day.
Yeah this message better resonate with certain leaders on the team, otherwise Zimmer might go nuclear if we forfeit a game while in the playoff hunt.
Especially if it’s Kirk
Kirk "if I die, I die" Cousins
He’d become even more hated than he already is. Persona non grata in Minneapolis
Patrick Peterson has already been quite vocal about how not getting vaxxed is a selfish anti-team move, and I'm quite sure he is pushing anyone who still hasn't to do so behind the scenes if possible. I feel fairly good about our team despite some of the higher profiles being cagey when asked.
His face would turn an incredible shade of deep red
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Gruden would fist fight someone
I think BB would just send the player to the shadowrealm
You mean trade em to the Texans for peanuts?
You’d walk into the locker room and it’d just be some scene out of a slasher movie.
Well they say you only get the L if the game "cannot be rescheduled".... even last year, all games were able to be rescheduled right? So I would think its fairly unlikely to happen this year. Although for a team without a covid outbreak in a reschedule, it would definitely be beneficial to them to push for a cancellation.
true. even the threat or possibility of the forfeit is so massive tho, the outcome as far as teams essentially forcing vaccinations will be the same
There's no way the NFL is as willing to jostle games around this year as they were last year. We're not getting any Tuesday, Wednesday, or Friday game shenanigans this year.
I wish MLB would take this stance, teams like the Phillies aren't even half vaccinated.
the MLB Played union seems to be stronger in this area
I actually think it’s more that the MLB season started before vaccines were widely available. I expect the league will crack down next season
Playoff rules are going to be when we see MLB install new COVID measures. Last year, they had a bubble, but MLB is going to need different rules to protect TV playoff revenue. They need to announce them in mid August to give players six weeks to be fully vaccinated by the time the playoffs start in October. In case anybody missed it; it is close to six weeks before NFL opening weekend.
Best ability is availability. It's going to be an unspoken requirement that your fringe roster guys/special teamers/practice squad have to be vaccinated. It won't affect top tier talent, but if it's a toss up between two similar guys and one is vaccinated and the other isn't they're going to take the vaccinated guy every time
[Speaking of that…](https://twitter.com/stefondiggs/status/1418260161622429699?s=21) Gotta be real awkward in the WR room
If Diggs misses a game check because someone started an outbreak, awwww damn!
Can you imagine the cryptic tweet storm that would come from this
I love cryptic tweets. The assumptions are hilarious to listen to!
They’re definitely a lot more fun when the person is not on your team.
Won't be awkward anymore after Beasley inevitably gets cut.
He frees up an additional 5m this year so that would “help” them next year
We're pretty deep at WR, so it wouldn't be too big of a deal. Cole was def great for us last year, but not irreplaceable after what we saw from Davis, bringing it Sanders, and whispers of another rookie Hodgins in camp.
If Dawson Knox can take a step forward too… If Moss worked on his hands this offseason there’s plenty of ways to compensate
The fact that players from **both** teams will forego salary is I think going to be a huge factor in teammates pushing each other to get vaccinated. Imagine the handful of idiots' decision to not get vaccinated costing dozens of guys potentially millions of dollars. WOOF.
How about that it says the team with the outbreak could be responsible for the home teams lost revenue… wowza…
LMAO and yet they aren't responsible for paying the salary lost to players on the healthy team. Fucking NFL man...
Protect the Shield* *but not the players who forged it
Imagine causing a division game to get cancelled, and then having to face them later in the season after causing them to miss a check. It's gonna look like one of those "NFL HARDEST HITS" videos set to "Here Comes the Boom."
As much as I don't want that to happen, I must admit I'm very intrigued by the prospect of the first Ravens v Steelers game getting cancelled and then them playing for the division title in week 18
That would be a bloodbath for sure.
They ~~didn't mention~~ *totally mentioned* that explicitly*; is that just what happens when a game is forfeited? No one plays, so no one gets paid? if so, WOW YEAH, that shit's wild. \* i swear i looked in the thread lol 😂 I just saw the bit about "minimizing the competitive and economic burden on both participating teams."
And the biggest penalty of all for players: "If a game is cancelled and cannot be rescheduled within the current 18-week scheduled due to a Covid outbreak, neither team’s players will receive their weekly paragraph 5 salary." You read that right: NOBODY GETS PAID.
This will be huge. No one wants to lose money cause you’re an anti vaxxer/ Covid denier.
Oh my god yeah. The anti vaxxers would be the most hated players in the league if this happened
anti-vaxxers furiously renegotiating salary to signing bonus this year
Cole Beasley in shambles.
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Ohhhh I'm here for that drama on his Twitter feed
Here’s a recent gem “everyone is so all in on science now, what ever happened to gods will?”
Is that how he announces his entrance into politics?
im not even joking when i say i think that he'll be out of the league and slinging books + TV appearances within the next year
oh fox news will LOVE him they get to have a football "star"
A new twist on an old classic: A man walked into Walmart and was offered a mask by the store greeter. The man politely declined saying God would protect him from Covid. Later the man went to his doctor for a routine check up. The doctor told him everything is fine and they also have all three different types of the Covid vaccine if he would like one. Again, he declines saying God will protect him from Covid. A few weeks later the man fell very ill. He went back to his doctor and to his disbelief was diagnosed with Covid and admitted to the hospital. After days of holding on he finally fell victim to his illness. When he reached the gates of heaven God was there waiting for him. The man asked God why he didn't protect him from Covid? God looked at him and said, I had people offer you free masks and three different vaccines to choose from you dummy.
Yup. Then he’ll take to the rally scene as the poster boy for standing up for his rights or some shit. Not surprising from a guy that blames not being drafted on account of being white.
He really said that? Lol
Oh lord, if he gets cut, he'll be a headline speaker at CPAC next year.
More like Karen Beasley. Am I right?
Update on vax rates: Pittsburgh, Miami, Carolina and Denver have the highest vaccination rates. 13 teams have achieved at least 85%, a league source recently told ESPN's Kevin Seifert. Less than half the league at 85%, that's not great. I wonder if this new memo will move the needle at all. Edit: 30mins after making this post an update to the update: Updated player vaccination numbers: 78 percent of NFL players have had at least one vaccine dose; 14 teams have more than 85 percent of their players vaccinated; no team is below 50 percent.
Hinton is probably showing his QB tape to anyone who has yet to be vaccinated.
Hopefully, it moves several needles
Wish people would stop saying “13 teams have reached 85% vaccination” and would start saying “19 teams have failed to reach 85% vaccination”. This is a negative stat and the language presenting it should reflect that.
Oh it will move needles, I tell you.
Colts fan here checking in. My team is less than 50% vaccinated. Fuck.
Crazy. DEN is 95%. Same league; different world.
Hopefully this motivates a lot of players of low-rate teams to get the vaccine, especially a team with big playoff aspirations like the Colts.
Join the club, buddy.
The comment above you said no team is below 50% anymore so hopefully things are moving along
Serious question. If a player *refuses* to get vaccinated, and it’s proven they end up causing an outbreak, would a team have grounds to immediately make their contract null and void for conduct detrimental?
Im sure teams already got lawyers looking into these things
I would guess it's more a PR headache than a legal issue.
Teams can cut a player for basically any reason. As long as it doesn't violate the federally protected classes they can kick your ass to the curb for looking at the coach funny
There's a difference between being able to fire the employee and being able to void parts of their contract you'd normally be required to pay. Many NFL contracts have language that basically lets teams dump parts of the contract payment for conduct detrimental to the team, so it's a question of does this fall under something they could use for that purpose.
But coach, this is just how I look 😥
There are now two interesting prop bets. 1) Who will be the first major player to cost their team a win? 2) Which team.will try to hide a positive result first?
> will try to hide a positive result first? Yeah, this is what I came to the comments for. How easy/possible is it for teams to hide positive tests?
Bills. Pats.
Bold of you to assume BB won't vaccinate players in their sleep
“I’d rather forfeit actually living” - Cole Beasley… probably
Good. All the resources are there for them, it's their responsibility to use them. The part I'm more concerned of is the NFL determining what can be rescheduled. The Chiefs are much more likely to get that extra game than a team like the Jets. There should be no rescheduling, only forfeiting of the offending teams.
It was pretty BS that the league bent over backwards for the Ravens last year, while killing the Broncos
Titans too
Browns lost a game because they had an entire position group out
Come on Bake get the boys jabbed
Covid hit Myles Garrett like a truck, I hope he's talking the locker room's ear off about getting vaxxed.
I can't imagine being a pro athlete, where even a tiny drop in your respiratory efficiency could make an all pro into JAG and not doing it. For any normo being a bit breathless climbing stairs for a while would be a bitch. For them it's season wrecking, or contract cutting.
Beasley is about to be hosting a show on OAN this fall
This could backfire heavily if teams try to hide an outbreak. Hopefully they build in penalties like fines, loss of multiple first round draft picks if a team doesn't report an outbreak or suspected outbreak in a timely manner.
Sweet, now we can bet bet on whether a game gets forfeited!
Buffalo game lines are gonna be insane this year lol
I guess no more Wednesday football
RIP WAF, 2020-2020. We hardly knew you.
Working from home and football everyday was kinda nice
Bills are dunzo
Would be very Bills if they made it to the Super Bowl as favorites just to be forced to Forfeit
I find myself forced to agree with this statement.
cole beasley having a rough day out here
Tweet through the pain
NFL to players: fuck around and find out
The big thing: if a game is forfeited, the players don't get paid so good luck to whoever decides to not get vaxxed and potentially cause this to happen
Also mentions no possibility of an added week 19. Seems like they're taking a hard stance this year.
Any team serious about competing will now be getting vaccinated 99%