The NFL has failed to put together an adequate plan to address the challenges COVID-19 presents, which is why the 2020 season is in real jeopardy before it even starts. ✍️: donnovanbennett
rosters to combat the fact they expect players to be lost due to the coronavirus. However, the NFL appears to be assuming they aren’t going to lose a high number of players — despite taking less drastic measures to protect them.
“Unless players are essentially in a bubble — insulated from the community and they are tested nearly every day — it would be very hard to see how football is able to be played this fall,” the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious DiseasesYes, MLB abandoned their bubble plans and are playing in home markets, but they cut their season by 102 games. The NFL has made no such COVID concession and isn’t cutting its regular season at all.
The other issue is losing a player due to injury or illness simply isn’t as big a deal to teams in baseball or the other major sports as it is in football. If the two players you lose due to coronavirus happen to be quarterbacks, that impacts the viability of a team’s ability to compete in a way that the loss of two point guards or two pitchers doesn’t.
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