The NFL Players Association announced that all preseason games in 2020 were cancelled, following reports that 95 players had tested positive for Covid-19.
The NFL has been in negotiations with the players’ union over coronavirus safety protocols, leading up to the start of league-wide training camp on July 28. Players took to Twitter using the hashtag #WeWantToPlay to express their concerns about the yet to be finalized agreement.
From the NFLPA’s website: 95 players across the league have tested positive for coronavirus and 8 teams have approved IDER plans, with 24 under review. pic.twitter.com/um3zINh5B5
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) July 21, 2020
Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson wrote that his wife is pregnant, “And there’s still No Clear Plan on Player Health & Family Safety.”
I am concerned.
My wife is pregnant.@NFL Training camp is about to start..
And there’s still No Clear Plan on Player Health & Family Safety. ??
We want to play football but we also want to protect our loved ones. #WeWantToPlay
— Russell Wilson (@DangeRussWilson) July 19, 2020
Houston superstar JJ Watt outlined several issues in his post, including mandatory training camp attendance, the full medically recommended training camp acclimation period, a fair opt out clause for at risk players, and a coronavirus testing protocol.
Once again in the interest of keeping everyone (players & fans) as informed as possible, here is an updated list of what we as players know and don’t know as the first group gets set to report to training camp tomorrow.#WeWantToPlay pic.twitter.com/xQcjs33zgM
— JJ Watt (@JJWatt) July 19, 2020
The organizations have come to an agreement on one of Watt’s points, a testing protocol for training camp has been finalized as of Monday.
Players will be required to pass two Covid-19 tests with a 72-hour self-quarantine in between, prior to being allowed entrance into the team facility. Teams have been mandated to test players daily during the first two weeks of training camp.
Another point of contention between players and the league was a reduction in preseason games. The NFLPA wanted to eliminate all preseason games this year, but the NFL pressed for a minimum of two, so each team would have a chance to test Covid-19 protocols at home.
On Monday, the NFL reversed its position and agreed to cancel preseason exhibitions, which will add extra days to camp and help appease the players’ demands for a longer training ramp-up period prior to the beginning of the season.
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There’s a positive coming out of the chimkFru…screw the nfl.
Pretty much what I was going to say. Let them kneel in an empty stadium.
Spot Ernst. Now the stuck up zillionaire players can kneel on their own time and their own nickel!! Will not miss it a bit!!
I sure won’t miss any or them. I hope the entire NFL is “dismantled”.
That won’t matter for a lot of people, since they won’t be watching anyway.
I am one of those people! Black national anthem, my arse! Screw the NFL and all of the overpaid, losers in it! I wish it would fold!
I call bs on this covid farce. Let’s shut down the world for something not a as bad as the yearly flu. It’s a plan.
The tests are the fake tests arranged by the Democratic Party. People should forget the NFL. They have told the American people over and over again ‘We don’t give a shit about you.’ After Trump wins and the economy soars and NO ONE watches the NFL and they can’t pay their players and then crawl back to the people just say ‘We don’t give shit about you.’
AMEN Tom!
Awesome!!!
It wont matter if they ALL have Covid-19…the NFL has made it’s anti-American bed and now they have to lay in it. I walked away from the NFL during the 2016 season during the National Anthem controversy and I suggest that all fellow Americans, not only walk away from the NFL, but let it’s sponsors know as well. I can’t wait to see someone like OBJ working at a car wash, because the NFL doesn’t have enough money to pay them
The NFL is nothing but a bunch of teams that coddle these players like they are kids. The NFL stands for National Fugitive League. Pro Sports my rear ended. The could care less about the fans except for the money. It’s obvious they Hate America. Drugs, drunk Driving, Abusers of Women, bar fights, tax evaders etc. I will never watch these thugs again. They are not sportsmen, they are criminals in uniforms.
Everybody take a knee. That will fix everything.
Does anyone out there care?
Shut the nfl down for good and 99% of the idiots will be collecting gov. checks or flipping burgers if they could be trained which is doubtful.
My comment to Wilson is don’t play. Aren’t you afraid that you might get mugged getting to the stadium? #FBLM #FAntifa #FDemocrats #FSeattle
No NFL for me
Would that they never play another game. The NFL has capitulated to the radical Left. They’ve lost me forever.
No interest in nfl. Could care less about the overpaid crybaby players and owners
kaepernick single handedly brought down the nfl. Maybe he can do the same at Disney
I bet these guys are in such case those positives just don’t matter. The surge in COVID-19 cases means nothing. Because we’re testing so much, of course the number of cases is increasing. But the death rate is plummeting into non-epidemic territory. It’s more important to know how serious they are. How many are asymptomatic or mild, and how many were found in tests or doctor/ER visits?
They can cancel the whole season
Amen my sitamas also Maybe some won’t make payroll maybe kaperhead won’t get paid would that b sweet
Want miss a bit.
Were the tests done at the DNC ”medical” labs in Florida?
WHO CARES
F… the nfl no one cares !! They have kneeled their way right out of their paychecks. And for all the so called protesters out there the police need to put the National Anthem on instead of sirens and they will all kneel Easy enough
Give the Felons an IQ test 95% will come back negative
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
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