Titans Test Positive for Covid. Titans-Steelers Game postponed, Titans-Bills in jeopardy

[Ellard80]

the giant elephant in the room is that it often takes awhile to know if you are positive - so these people testing negative still may have it... and then spread it and the cycle continues through out the teams.

We knew it when we were watching that game.

 

[kurtfaulk]

the giant elephant in the room is that it often takes awhile to know if you are positive - so these people testing negative still may have it... and then spread it and the cycle continues through out the teams.

We knew it when we were watching that game.

players are tested every day. if they have it they won't be on the field.

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[RamBall]

I still have not seen that any vikings players have tested positive after playing the titans.

 

[Merlin]

I think the NFL is fucking this up. They should make teams play their scheduled game with scrubs if necessary. Then teams will be like "holy fuck we better cover every angle to prevent this."

Rescheduling games later sets a bad example. Teams will expect it and whine if they don't get it when they lose a key guy or three.

 

[Ellard80]

players are tested every day. if they have it they won't be on the field.

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it has an avg incubation of 7 days or something like that. So you can have it an not test positive. That's the big issue. Gilmore tested negative before the Chiefs game - 2 days later he test positive. How long has he had it? No one really knows.

That's one of the big reasons it's so contagious - people don't know they have it and spread it.

 

[Psycho_X]

At some point forfeits are going to have to start happening. I know people say “let the scrubs play” but you don’t know who is infected at any given moment. Then you spread it to next team etc. or they push the super bowl way back and extend season with teams getting multiple bye weeks but not sure on logistics there.


View: https://twitter.com/rapsheet/status/1314193236240498689?s=21

 

[fearsomefour]

After the Chiefs/Patriots game Gilmore hugged just about every prominent Chief out there including Mahomes.

Devious.....

 

[fearsomefour]

it has an avg incubation of 7 days or something like that. So you can have it an not test positive. That's the big issue. Gilmore tested negative before the Chiefs game - 2 days later he test positive. How long has he had it? No one really knows.

That's one of the big reasons it's so contagious - people don't know they have it and spread it.

Right.
Testing is essentially worthless in terms of a true preventative.

 

[fearsomefour]

At some point forfeits are going to have to start happening. I know people say “let the scrubs play” but you don’t know who is infected at any given moment. Then you spread it to next team etc. or they push the super bowl way back and extend season with teams getting multiple bye weeks but not sure on logistics there.


View: https://twitter.com/rapsheet/status/1314193236240498689?s=21

Pretty simple.
Call up practice squad guys.....should of expanded the practice squad more....and play the game.

 

[Psycho_X]

Pretty simple.
Call up practice squad guys.....should of expanded the practice squad more....and play the game.

That's what I mean, so Titans call up 8 practice squad players, or whatever, but they have 2-4 currently infected players that they'll find positives for over the next couple days up to the game. Suddenly practice squad players are infected and the players they play against Sunday. /shrug. There is no way around it aside from entire team and staff being replaced lol.

 

[Classic Rams]

Yeah or they keep postponing games until the NFL is playing in the spring. Who knows they could even follow the bubble theme when the playoffs come around like the NBA and have all games played at one stadium. Hmmm... SOFI.

 

[Angry Ram]

Right.
Testing is essentially worthless in terms of a true preventative.

I don't think anyone is calling testing a preventative, it's an identification tool to isolate individuals or re-schedule games. And I think its very commendable the NFL is doing daily testing and re-testing. This is a Titans issue more than an NFL issue, and somewhere the Titans fucked up the guidelines.

The incubation is how long it takes before someone shows symptoms, so two separate things there. I've always used the 2 week window if I have to venture out to a public place. I had to do a training session a month ago in a pretty crowded computer lab, and I didn't have any symptoms. Could I have been asymptomatic, sure, but a test would've revealed it.

 

[fearsomefour]

That's what I mean, so Titans call up 8 practice squad players, or whatever, but they have 2-4 currently infected players that they'll find positives for over the next couple days up to the game. Suddenly practice squad players are infected and the players they play against Sunday. /shrug. There is no way around it aside from entire team and staff being replaced lol.

Yes.
ENTERTAIN ME DAMNIT!!

 

[fearsomefour]

I don't think anyone is calling testing a preventative, it's an identification tool to isolate individuals or re-schedule games. And I think its very commendable the NFL is doing daily testing and re-testing. This is a Titans issue more than an NFL issue, and somewhere the Titans fucked up the guidelines.

The incubation is how long it takes before someone shows symptoms, so two separate things there. I've always used the 2 week window if I have to venture out to a public place. I had to do a training session a month ago in a pretty crowded computer lab, and I didn't have any symptoms. Could I have been asymptomatic, sure, but a test would've revealed it.

I get all that.
I was being a bit tongue in cheek.
The problem of course is it’s a rolling two week window.
So, it never closes.
It’s the tool we all have at this point it is just not that effective.
You know, whatever.

 

[fearsomefour]

Yeah or they keep postponing games until the NFL is playing in the spring. Who knows they could even follow the bubble theme when the playoffs come around like the NBA and have all games played at one stadium. Hmmm... SOFI.

But the NFL would be playing in spring.
Only certain teams would be.
How about a team that has to wait three or four weeks to play a make up game that doesn’t matter to them but they have to because it could impact the playoff picture.
Don’t see how it’s feasible.

 

[OldSchool]

If they cant field a team with healthy players they forfeit it’s really simple. Enough of this bullshit making other teams adjust to suit the Titans. They’re the ones that messed up and broke the rules. Forfeit games and the paychecks that go with them. Also if Vrabel and the team knew and sanctioned these practices the need to face discipline too. Enough coddling rule breakers nfl.

 

[CGI_Ram]

If they cant field a team with healthy players they forfeit it’s really simple. Enough of this bullshit making other teams adjust to suit the Titans. They’re the ones that messed up and broke the rules. Forfeit games and the paychecks that go with them. Also if Vrabel and the team knew and sanctioned these practices the need to face discipline too. Enough coddling rule breakers nfl.

 

[dieterbrock]

If they cant field a team with healthy players they forfeit it’s really simple. Enough of this bullshit making other teams adjust to suit the Titans. They’re the ones that messed up and broke the rules. Forfeit games and the paychecks that go with them. Also if Vrabel and the team knew and sanctioned these practices the need to face discipline too. Enough coddling rule breakers nfl.

I dont know if I agree with that. Its imperative that the teams work in unison, and once forfeits start coming in to play, so will hiding positive tests and circumnavigating the system. Now if the positive tests seemed traced to activity traced to outside of what the guidelines require, thats another story.
I am hopeful that this was the wakeup call the NFL needed, like the wakeup call that hit the Marlins/Cardinals. They got thru it and now they are deep in playoffs.