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NFL COVID-19 PROTOCOL

The Browns closed the facility for a time on Wednesday after learning of a positive test. Now they have again closed the facility again after another player tested positive this morning. Browns meetings will be held remotely as the team does contact tracing.
 
Larry Fitzgerald tests positive for COVID-19
November 26, 2020, 11:55 AM EST

The parade of positive COVID-19 tests results has desensitized most football fans. Every once in a while, however, a big-name player gets it.

The latest is Cardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald. Per NFL Media, he has tested positive, and he will miss Sunday’s game at New England.

The question now becomes whether other players were in sufficiently close contact to land on the COVID-19 reserve list, or whether they will also test positive. If, for example, the Cardinals don’t have Kyler Murray or DeAndre Hopkins for Sunday’s game, that would make it much harder to beat the Patriots.

And, yes, the game will proceed even if Hopkins or Murray aren’t available — unless the Cardinals end up with the same kind of uncontained outbreak that bumped Ravens-Steelers from Thursday to Sunday. Once the league knows that a situation is under control, “next man up” applies. And it applies regardless of whether the next man down is the best player on the team.
 
Lamar Jackson has tested positive for covid-19. We are getting into serious scenarios that could have been predicted. The question is how long can the League endure the progression of the loss of players not only to covid-19, but also to the accelerated major injuries the League has seen due to lll preparation prior to the season?
 
NFL orders all facilities to close next Monday and Tuesday
Posted by Mike Florio on November 27, 2020, 9:09 PM EST

In anticipation of the expected spike in COVID-19 cases after Thanksgiving weekend, the NFL has issued a mandate for next week: All facilities will close on Monday and Tuesday.

“In response to the continuous increase in positivity rates throughout the country, as well as our understanding that a number of players and staff celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday with out-of-town guests, all in-person team activities on Monday, November 30 and Tuesday, December 1 will be prohibited,” Commissioner Roger Goodell wrote to all teams in a Friday memo, a copy of which PFT has obtained.

This prohibition won’t apply to clubs participating in games on Monday and Tuesday. And it won’t affect the preparation of teams playing next Thursday, because next Thursday’s game between the Cowboys and Ravens already has been moved to the following Monday, given the postponement of the Ravens-Steelers game to Tuesday.

“All activities must be conducted virtually [on Monday and Tuesday], with the exception of essential medical treatment and rehabilitation under the supervision of a team physician or athletic trainer,” Goodell explained. “Medical staff and players must continue to comply with the rules outlined in the intensive protocol. Further, players and staff should be reminded that gatherings of any sort outside of the facility are prohibited.”

The memo also points out that the NFL Players Association “has instructed its members to alert your club’s Infection Control Officer if they had guests over the last several days so that you may consider additional Mesa POC testing for those players when your facility reopens.”
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Ravens put six more players on COVID-19 list
Posted by Josh Alper on November 28, 2020, 4:19 PM EST

The Ravens announced that six more players have been placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list on Saturday.

Linebacker Jaylon Ferguson, right tackle D.J. Fluker, defensive lineman Broderick Washington, practice squad offensive lineman Will Holden, cornerback Khalil Dorsey, and cornerback Tavon Young are the new additions. The Ravens have now placed 18 players on the list this week. Dorsey and Young are on injured reserve.

The reason for any player’s placement on the list has not been announced, but the timing makes it unlikely that Ferguson, Fluker, and Washington will miss Tuesday’s game against the Steelers. That game had been scheduled for Thanksgiving, but the outbreak in Baltimore led it to be postponed to Sunday and then Tuesday in hopes of controlling the outbreak.

The Steelers have had a handful of players and an assistant coach with COVID issues as well, so both teams will be shorthanded if they do play on Tuesday.
 
Well, this is certainly another fine kettle of fish you've gotten me into..........

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All of the quarterbacks on the Broncos’ roster have been ruled out of Sunday’s game because they tested positive or were exposed to COVID-19. After Broncos backup Jeff Driskel tested positive for COVID-19, the other Broncos QB have been in close contact with him...........while no one wearing masks!
 
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After the League refused Broncos’ request to let assistant coaches suit up and play QB, the Broncos have elevated and designated their PS WR Kendall Hinton as their QB. Hinton was a high school QBk who started two games at QB for Wake Forest as a true freshman in 2015. After that he spent three seasons as a backup QB before moving to receiver in 2019.
 
Two more Ravens players have tested positive for COVID-19.

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Mark Andrews, Matthew Judon latest Ravens on COVID-19 reserve list
Posted by Josh Alper on November 29, 2020, 9:15 AM EST

When asked about his teammates testing positive for COVID-19 this week, Ravens tight end Mark Andrews said that the team would have to adapt and move forward with preparations to face the Steelers.

If they do play on Tuesday, the Ravens will have to adapt to the absence of Andrews. According to multiple reports, Andrews has tested positive for COVID-19 and he will not be eligible to play this week.

Andrews has Type 1 diabetes and some people with the condition have had more severe complications after contracting COVID-19.

Andrews will be the 21st Ravens player to go on the reserve/COVID-19 list and there were reports of a second positive test from Saturday. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that linebacker Matthew Judon is going to be added to the reserve list as well. Judon will also have to miss Tuesday’s game, which remains on the schedule as of Sunday morning. .
 
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Report: Broncos’ quarterbacks were not cooperative with contact tracing
Posted by Michael David Smith on November 29, 2020, 11:28 AM EST

The Broncos’ entire quarterback room is out of today’s game against the Saints, after Jeff Driskel tested positive for COVID-19 and Drew Lock, Brett Rypien and Blake Bortles were all designated as close contacts with Driskel. And the NFL may be preparing to discipline the four quarterbacks for their actions during and after that close contact.

Mark Maske of the Washington Post reports that the Broncos’ quarterbacks were not forthcoming when dealing with contact tracers for NFL and NFL Players Association.

All four quarterbacks failed to wear masks in meetings, according to multiple reports, which is a violation of league rules. And the report also indicates that once Driskel tested positive, the other three quarterbacks weren’t cooperative when contact tracing attempted to establish who might have caught the coronavirus from Driskel.
 
The Ravens have reported multiple positive COVID-19 tests today, 2 days before their Tuesday game against the Steelers, which has already been rescheduled twice.
 
Ravens receiver Willie Snead has now tested positive for COVID-19. The Ravens continue to be decimated by the virus. I'm not seeing how the twice reschedules Tuesday game is realistic. Snead is the 7th offensive starter to test positive, and there have now been 8 consecutive days with a positive test within the team.
 
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The remaining Ravens were to be able to re-enter their facility this morning, but the NFL has nixed it pending review of today's COVID-19 results (5 PM ET).

Even if the Tuesday game is not cancelled for COVID, the Ravens may have a problem getting to Pittsburgh...............they are expecting 6 inches of snow.
 
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COVID-19 testing error affected Broncos assistant coach
December 1, 2020, 10:48 AM EST

The Broncos not having any quarterbacks available for Sunday’s game against the Saints may have been the weirdest thing to happen to the team in the past week, but it’s not the only weird thing that happened.

The NFL acknowledges that an “error” was made by a BioReference Laboratories technician in administering a point-of-care COVID-19 test to a member of the Broncos’ coaching staff. Per multiple sources, the error involved the process for calibrating a POC testing machine.

The testing technician uses a trace amount of a synthetic compound used to calibrate the POC testing machine. Somehow, that compound last week ended up on a swab that ended up inside the nose of the assistant coach.

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Yes..........SOMEHOW?? SOMEHOW??.............something that should never happen in any lab..............but it does not surprise me that it occurred in a BioReference lab...........a lab, as I've posted previously, ladened with a shoddy past.
 
Contrary to ESPN's report earlier today that multiple reports indicated that the Ravens had no new positive COVID-19 test results on Tuesday, in actuality there are 2 new positives..............1 staff and 1 player............that's 10 straight days of Ravens players testing positive. Apparently, the League does not intend on changing the game from Wednesday..................creative manipulation will not stop the games from going on.
 
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CloakNNNdagger said:
Despite this report yesterday...........

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...........I believe that we will see more Ravens test positive. It will be interesting to see if we see Steelers players come up with positive tests now.
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The NBA and NHL proved you can do this if you truly commit to a bubble. Doubt anyone is really shocked at what happened to the Broncos and Ravens in the last 10 days, and I really struggle to believe this is tenable.
 
Myles Garrett: COVID-19 kicked my butt
Posted by Josh Alper on December 4, 2020, 3:24 PM EST

Browns defensive end Myles Garrett returned to the team this week after missing two games due to a positive test for COVID-19 and he met with reporters for the first time since that return on Friday.

Garrett said he felt “a little stiff” when he got back on the practice field and that it felt like he’d “been on the couch for a month” rather than two weeks. He also shared that he “was in pain” with a fever and body aches as a result of the coronavirus.
“It kicked my butt. Now I’m back,” Garrett said.

Garrett said his biggest fear after learning of his positive test is that he would develop myocarditis, which is an inflammation of the heart muscle that has been associated with COVID-19. Bills tight end Tommy Sweeney is out for the season after being diagnosed with myocarditis, but Garrett said he’s “fortunate and blessed” to be back on the field.
 
DEC. 1, 2020
The NFL Is Too Big to Let COVID Stop It
By Will Leitch

The NFL has long sold itself as the inflexible monolith of American sports, an impenetrable fortress that bends for no one. But you’ve seen how well supposed impenetrable fortresses have been holding up in 2020. The NFL, like the rest of us, is in the midst of a COVID-19 crisis. And — perhaps most mortifying to a league long accused of putting positive public relations above player safety and societal good — it’s playing out for the whole world to see.

This past weekend was a nightmare for the league. Instead of focusing on a riveting matchup between Tom Brady, the greatest quarterback of all time, and Patrick Mahomes, the reigning Super Bowl MVP (and Brady’s heir apparent), the NFL was watching:
  • The San Francisco 49ers get booted not only from their stadium, but their practice facility for the next three weeks after Santa Clara County announced new COVID-19 restrictions banning all high school, college, and professional sports.
  • The Baltimore Ravens suffer such a dramatic team-wide outbreak — they have had players and staff test positive for eight consecutive days — that their game against Pittsburgh was moved from Thanksgiving night all the way to this Tuesday, then postponed again to Wednesday.
  • A Denver quarterback debacle. In the most embarrassing incident of the weekend, all four Broncos quarterbacks were forced to miss their game against the New Orleans Saints, because three of them spent hours indoors unmasked with the fourth, who tested positive. Thanks to their carelessness, a practice-squad wide receiver who hadn’t played QB since college had to step in. He threw nine passes, only one of which was caught by a teammate. (Two were caught by the Saints.)
The NFL shut down all team facilities on Monday and Tuesday, in hopes of slowing the spread of the virus after the Thanksgiving holiday, but they did play games all day Sunday (and played another one on Monday), so the whole thing felt like yet another Band-Aid for a league that’s bleeding everywhere. Some have argued that the league should shut down for a few weeks until we get through this current surge (if we get through this current surge) — or even push back the Super Bowl, currently scheduled for February 7 in Tampa. The NFL looks like yet another American institution brought down by its own hubris in the face of COVID-19, another cautionary tale of what happens when people refuse to take the coronavirus seriously.
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Eight Panthers players have been placed on the COVID-19 list. No information yet as to positive test vs. close contact. Stay tuned.
 
This can hardly be considered anything but comical relief.

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Ravens add Dez Bryant to COVID-19 reserve
Posted by Michael David Smith on December 10, 2020, 4:15 PM EST


Ravens wide receiver Dez Bryant has officially been placed on the COVID-19 reserve list.

Bryant has been one of the more unusual cases in this highly unusual season: On Tuesday night Bryant was warming up and preparing to play the Cowboys when he was told just before kickoff that he had tested positive for COVID-19.

But Bryant claimed today that he has had two negative COVID-19 tests. That and the fact that the Ravens didn’t put Bryant on COVID-19 reserve yesterday led some to believe the Tuesday test was a false positive.

Today, however, Bryant has officially gone on the reserve list. He’ll be out for at least the Ravens’ Monday night game against the Browns, as the Ravens announced that he will quarantine for 10 days.
 
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