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10/11/2020 at 13:00 • Filed to: None
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Week 5. ARE YOU READY FOR SOME (postponed)
Here’s what I think: s top it now, for one month. ISOLATE EVERYONE. Use that time to rearrange the schedule. Reduce the schedule to 12 total games. Ensure that all the division games get played, then sprinkle the rest however you feel. Personally, the rest of the interconference games should be the first to go, even though that would take the Falcons off of my team’s schedule. Make each team get into a bubble, either in their city or in clumps of let’s say 4 , and fucking enforce the rules. When the schedule starts, ensure that there are at least TWO bye weeks added. Add a one-week buffer in between the end of the season and the start of the playoffs. Would it solve everything? Probably not. But one month of isolation should potentially give time to let everyone get healthy, and then you’ll just have to take it one week at a time. Look, everyone’s schedules are going to be out of whack for the next couple of years or so. I love football, but I don’t particularly care when it happens. I’ll live. Have the Super Bowl in April, it won’t bother me.
Broncos-Patriots has been rescheduled to next weekend, and the Broncos’ Miami game that was scheduled is now off . SURPRISE BYE WEEK (insert air horn noise here)! Hey, maybe Drew Lock will be healthy enough to play by then. He was already pretty close. I hope so, especially if Cam is back . I mean, they have pretty much no shot, but it’d be nice to at least have our QB back. I like Brett “Mark—I mean Brett” Rypien, but I’ve seen enough third-string-caliber QB play over the last four years. I’m good. Also maybe there’s a chance we could have Noah Fant and A.J. Bouye back by then. Phillip Lindsay will be back, as he was already scheduled to play Monday.
I’m going to guess that the NFL will force the Titans to forfeit the Bills game. I think they should have to forfeit the Steelers game too. Yes, it would give the Steelers a bonus bye week, but that isn’t their fault. They did what they were supposed to.
Today my local early game on CBS is Raiders-Chiefs. The Chefs are the best team in the league. The Raiders are in that we’re-kinda-good-but-haven’t-figured-it-out-yet purgatory. I’d be shocked if the Chefs don’t win. Late game is Colts-Browns. I think that might be the only one I actually watch today, I think it’ll be fun. The Browns have more talent, but really I kind of lump these two together as far as how good I think they are. I’m going to pick the Browns because they’re at home. I think this might be an INT-fest, though. Only one game for us on Fox and it’s the Steagles. I think the Eagles are toast. Sunday Night is Vikings at Seahawks. Gross. Monday Night is back to being a single game, Chargers at Saints. Looks like it will stay in New Orleans now instead of being shifted to Indy because of Hurricane Delta. We’ve had so many storms they had to move on to the Greek alphabet. Is Chinese next, assuming we go through all of those? “Hurricane is headed right for Jacksonville.” And we’ll see about the purely theoretical Tuesday Night game between the Bills and Titans. If you were a Bills player, would you want to go anywhere near any of the Titans players right now? I wouldn’t.
The rest:
Cardinals at Jets - I hope the Jets lose every game. I will rescind that hope once they fire Adam Gase.
Bengals at Ravens - Probably the Ravens, but they’re not infallible.
Jaguar s at Texans - I hope the Texans lose every game, if only so they get the first pick in the draft and trade it to anyone other than the Jets so that the Jets have no shot at Trevor Lawrence .
Rams at Teamies - Dwayne Haskins sort of sounds like this generation’s Ryan Leaf. I mean in work ethic, not necessarily magnitude of bust. The fact that Alex Smith can even be on a roster and healthy right now is awesome, even if he isn’t starting.
Panthers at Falcons - I think the Panthers are just uneven enough that the Falcons could get a win here today, but my heart knows the Falcons can’t help but screw it up somehow.
Dolphins at 49ers - It sounds like Jimmy Garoppolo is back, so I’d have to say Niners.
Giants at Cowboys - Ugh.
Lions and Packers are on a bye. With what’s going on in Wisconsin, I don’t think it will be too long before the Packers start having to deal with the COVID monster.
I probably won’t see much football today. I have to get a new lock for our mailbox because our mailboxes were broken into AGAIN on Friday. Fortunately we had nothing in there. I also need to get a lot of housework done and go through my budget for the next six months. Adulting sucks. Enjoy the games!
facw
> fhrblig
10/11/2020 at 13:10 |
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I don’t think they need anything so drastic as a month off (especially as I think the situation will be worse, not better in a month). But the idea that they are just going to postpone for a day or two when someone tests positive is nuts. They need to cancel (or reschedule using byes or a week 18) when someone tests positive. Even with daily tests there’s just no way to know that you’ve controlled the infection in a few days.
Just Jeepin'
> fhrblig
10/11/2020 at 13:14 |
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It’s not as if the stadiums have to shuffle their schedules to work around big concerts.
Nibby
> fhrblig
10/11/2020 at 13:48 |
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> Nibby
10/11/2020 at 14:31 |
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Ayy where your nose at
jeepoftheseus
> fhrblig
10/11/2020 at 14:49 |
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I’m not a big NFL guy but I do take fantasy pretty damn seriously. This was my suggestions to our league when the Titans got shut down the other day. I think it’s a workable format.
gin-san - shitpost specialist
> fhrblig
10/11/2020 at 15:03 |
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That’s not the first beer commercial that ol Billy red beard has done:
DipodomysDeserti
> fhrblig
10/11/2020 at 15:18 |
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Here’s what I think: stop it now, for one month. ISOLATE EVERYONE. Use that time to rearrange the schedule.
Pretty ironic seeing as football itself is a lot more dangerous to these guys’ heal th than covid. We’ve been able to keep entire schools from getting infected while teaching in person for the last two months, I’m sure these billionaire team owners can figure someth ing out.
ranwhenparked
> facw
10/11/2020 at 15:19 |
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Especially because a month off would only escalate to cancellation of the whole season - like the "two week shutdown to slow the spread and preserve hospital capacity" that we all went through, which morphed into 3 months of house arrest. There's no magic length of time that will bring this thing under control or eliminate it, the only thing that will do that at this point is a vaccine. Without that, it's just permanently endemic and we have to learn how to live with it and manage it within reasonable precautions without stopping the whole world every time a healthy young athlete tests positive.
Nick Has an Exocet
> fhrblig
10/11/2020 at 16:09 |
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I think the Patriots (specifically Bill Belichick) found a formula to beat Mahomes. Rush 3 + spy, drop as many into coverage as you can. Doesn’t seem that the chiefs have caught on yet. With that formula, you have to get a respectable run going. Kind of surprised that the Panty Raiders were able to do it.
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> Nick Has an Exocet
10/11/2020 at 17:08 |
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Yeah, I didn’t see that one coming. I’d hope we could try to do that, but the Broncos make some... interesting coaching choices.
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> gin-san - shitpost specialist
10/11/2020 at 17:09 |
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I LOL’ed because even though it’s kinja’d for me, I know exactly what it is.
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> Nibby
10/11/2020 at 17:10 |
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Hey, the Giants are attempting a football!
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10/11/2020 at 17:14 |
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gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
> fhrblig
10/11/2020 at 20:06 |
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I was expecting that to go in a different direction
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17 years and a lot more hair