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Why don’t they delay the season for a few months & review the situation early 2021?

Don’t blame players for opting out, it looks like the NFL doesn’t have a plan for what to do.
 
ha_rooney said:
Why don’t they delay the season for a few months & review the situation early 2021?

Don’t blame players for opting out, it looks like the NFL doesn’t have a plan for what to do.
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If they delay to early 2021 then they may as well cancel the season since it ends in early 2021.
 
Maybe delaying it takes too much of the season into American summer. Skipping a year might make sense.
 
My guesses for the NFL Top 100 top 10:

1. Mahomes
2. Lamar
3. Donald
4. CMC
5. Thomas
5. Wilson
6. Kittle
7. Gilmore
9. Henry
10. Hopkins
 


:eek:

I'm off to find the "Clyde Edwards-Helaire will be a top 5 back next season" train.
 
If more major players drop out, and especially if they are star QBs, then the winners of SB LV might be the most asterisked champions ever. Unless it turns out to be us, in which case it should be treated just like any other year :D
 
If as seems likely this years season doesn't happen what on earth will happen with next year's draft ?

Surely they can't keep the same order and have the Bengals pick Trevor Lawrence to go with Joe Burrows
 
lsd said:
If as seems likely this years season doesn't happen what on earth will happen with next year's draft ?

Surely they can't keep the same order and have the Bengals pick Trevor Lawrence to go with Joe Burrows
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Good question, imagine they would do some sort of draft lottery for a range of positions based on last season's reg season positions, bit like the NHL. So top 10 lotto & so on.... Whoever gets Lawrence in that scenario will be laughing.
 
YAMS49 said:
Good question, imagine they would do some sort of draft lottery for a range of positions based on last season's reg season positions, bit like the NHL. So top 10 lotto & so on.... Whoever gets Lawrence in that scenario will be laughing.
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Yeah a weighted lottery system like the NHL in 2005 would seem like a good option in that case. Could still lead to a Super Bowl contender getting the first overall pick though - it could change the outlook of a franchise for the next decade or so just because they got lucky in the lottery, still seems a bit arbitrary. It certainly did in the NHL that year with the Penguins having the opportunity to draft Crosby.

Another solution could be to create a league table based on winning percentage in the last 3 or 5 seasons combined, en draft in reverse order by following that league table. Even this system could be weighted if you put more importance on the 2019 season and less on the 2017 season for example.

Just taking the 2020 draft order seems hugely unfair and gives the Bengals an all too big advantage. I think there are definitely a few solutions possible, and then it's just hoping that the top 5 actually consists of pretty bad football teams in the recent past. You don't want to see the Patriots, Chiefs, Ravens or Saints draft first just because of Covid-19.

Anyway let's stay positive and believe that there will be a season still :D
 
RobinLFC said:
Another solution could be to create a league table based on winning percentage in the last 3 or 5 seasons combined, en draft in reverse order by following that league table. Even this system could be weighted if you put more importance on the 2019 season and less on the 2017 season for example.
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I'm liking this, can we go back even further to give SF a better pick please. Just forget last year altogether.
 
I get why there’s uncertainty and people are worried but it seems to me that in US sport even more than with the Premier League money talks and I really think it’ll go head.

They’ve got the NFLPA on board and even with the opt outs I just don’t see them scrapping the season at this point
 
It would make more sense to have college and pro Football start in Jan imo. Much of the virus will have run its course by then and there may even be a vaccine available. Short of that, the NFL should consider doing all its games in a geographic bubble as opposed to what MLB are doing which is just asking for trouble (see the Miami Marlins).
 
Raoul said:
It would make more sense to have college and pro Football start in Jan imo. Much of the virus will have run its course by then and there may even be a vaccine available. Short of that, the NFL should consider doing all its games in a geographic bubble as opposed to what MLB are doing which is just asking for trouble (see the Miami Marlins).
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It would be pretty much impossible to do a bubble for an NFL roster over 1500 players then you have the family, the trainer's, nutritionist, and so on.
It should be done but I can't see it being a reality unless they buy a massive Island :lol: :lol: to keep them all quarantined.
 
christy87 said:
It would be pretty much impossible to do a bubble for an NFL roster over 1500 players then you have the family, the trainer's, nutritionist, and so on.
It should be done but I can't see it being a reality unless they buy a massive Island :lol: :lol: to keep them all quarantined.
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Hockey are doing a two city bubble between Edmonton and Toronto. NFL could do something similar to this, but simply add a third.
 
Raoul said:
It would make more sense to have college and pro Football start in Jan imo. Much of the virus will have run its course by then and there may even be a vaccine available. Short of that, the NFL should consider doing all its games in a geographic bubble as opposed to what MLB are doing which is just asking for trouble (see the Miami Marlins).
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That's what everyone initially thought when it first appeared in February/March. I very much doubt the world will be (almost) Covid-19 free by the beginning of 2021, especially the USA.
 
RobinLFC said:
That's what everyone initially thought when it first appeared in February/March. I very much doubt the world will be (almost) Covid-19 free by the beginning of 2021, especially the USA.
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One this wave of COVID finishes up, which I suspect will happen when people finally start wearing masks and not publicly congregating, I would think things would be stable enough to play sports by Jan. Unless of course we are in a significantly worse place in Oct than we are now.
 
RobinLFC said:
So would I but he's already been announced at #11. Best receiver in the game.
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Looks like it ended up with 1. Jackson 2. Wilson 3. Donald 4. Mahomes. I can understand if they went Donald #1 over Mahomes but putting two other QBs over him is weird.
 
In my opinion Thomas is a better receiver that Julio Jones in 2020. And Football Outsiders agrees with me.
 
Wednesday at Stoke said:
Looks like it ended up with 1. Jackson 2. Wilson 3. Donald 4. Mahomes. I can understand if they went Donald #1 over Mahomes but putting two other QBs over him is weird.
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Think the voting gets done after the regular season so would make sense to have Lamar at #1. Wilson over Mahomes is weird though yeah.
 
Organic Potatoes said:
Smacks of something they’d do if a team was serious about signing him and wanted clarification on a potential suspension.
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Yeah, there were rumours the Seahawks and Ravens have been considering him but wanted to know how long he'd be suspended for. Guessing if he makes it to week 9 and hasn't managed to get it extended, someone will pick him up, just hope it's not the Seahawks. If he was upset at not getting the ball enough in Pittsburgh, he'll go fecking ballistic when we run every fecking play.
 
Stafford has been put on the Covid list.
 
rpitroda said:
The pats opt out list is huge compared to other teams. Including key players on D.
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From what I've read Boston isn't a hotspot region, so it's a bit strange so many Pats players are opting out (not that I blame any of them ).

I don't see how they can play the whole season the way things are going in America. They're not going to be able to put the teams in a bubble (like NBA) and it's a sport where you cannot avoid contact.
 
ha_rooney said:
From what I've read Boston isn't a hotspot region, so it's a bit strange so many Pats players are opting out (not that I blame any of them ).

I don't see how they can play the whole season the way things are going in America. They're not going to be able to put the teams in a bubble (like NBA) and it's a sport where you cannot avoid contact.
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Yeah ... can’t fault anyone for opting out. Just very strange that we’ve got a much longer list than others, not sure if I’m trying to read too much info something and it’s just the run of the dice.

Got no idea how they’ll make it work this year as, as you say, contact is unavoidable.
 


A big name to watch today, I think the deadline is at 4pm ET.
 
RobinLFC said:
Err, not sure, but I assumed that's what "opt-out deadline" means yeah :D
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:lol: fair enough... I thought with the uncertainty around Covid-19 and if things get better/worse, they’d be allowed to opt out at anytime. Seems strange to have a deadline so early when you don’t know how things will be in a few weeks’ time.
 
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