The New Orleans Saints; plans to head to a bar for the NFL draft ignores the gravity of our current situation, nrarmour writes
You’ve finally found a way to be dumber than Mike Ditka on draft day.
The Saints are planning to hold their “war room” at the Dixie Brewery. These would be the same SaintsThe same Saints who are based in one of the hottest spots in the country outside New York City for COVID-19 cases. Payton says the team will follow proper social distancing and limit the number of people in the room. But that’s beside the point. The optics of this are flat-out terrible and will jeopardize health and safety in a city that can least afford it. If the Saints can’t see this themselves, then the NFL needs to shut down this awful idea.
This was always the danger in the NFL going ahead with the April 23-25 draft when the league has closed team facilities and much of the country is under stay-at-home measures for all but essential business. Which the NFL is not, despite what commissioner Roger Goodell seems to think. “Draft war rooms brought to you by Zoom” are not going to be interesting, even if it would be entertaining to see what, if anything, Bill Belichick has in his kitchen, or watch Dave Gettleman navigate a virtual meeting with the “computer folks.” Which means teams are going to try and get creative with where their front-office personnel are located.
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