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Its a damned if you do, damned if you dont situation for the NFL, unfortunately. I would love to see my team go out there and compete, but if the QB and RB1 go down, or half the o-line, what good is it anyway.

As of now, if there is a season, I agree with Tim that it would be majorly reduced at first and delayed... its tough to even see that taking place, but something would be better than nothing if it can be done reasonably safe.

On a side note - Ive seen AFL games going full-bore in Australia, in front of reduced stadiums, but i wonder how they are making it work?

 

Earlier Tuesday on its website, the NFLPA listed 95 NFL players with a known positive COVID-19 test. They changed the number Tuesday night.

The NFLPA’s website now lists 59 players with a known positive coronavirus test.

The NFLPA posted a statement saying the higher number included all known positives across the league, including staff. Thirty-six of the positive tests were non-players.

In fact, the number now is lower than it was on July 10 when the NFLPA reported 72 players had tested positive.

Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott, Rams center Brian Allen, Broncos pass rusher Von Miller and Rams left tackle Andrew Whitworth are among the players who are known to have had COVID-19.

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When everything in your country wants to kill you....would the threat of Covid really scare you?

 

Death in any package should scare a person.

 

Washington now officially called the Washington Football Team, although the logo hasn't changed yet.

 

Jamal Adams: Adam Gase isn’t right leader for Jets



Safety Jamal Adams wants a trade away from the Jets and he’s airing some of his grievances with the club ahead of training camp.

Adams is eligible for a contract extension and the Jets have talked about their desire to keep him, but the safety told Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News that the team never made an offer to him this offseason. He said he would have respected the team’s approach more if they said “we’re not going to look to pay you this year, we want to keep adding players.”

Whatever the case on the contract front, respect for head coach Adam Gase may be a bit more difficult to come by for Adams. He said that he hasn’t spoken to Gase since the end of the season and that there wasn’t much of a relationship during the season.

“I don’t feel like he’s the right leader for this organization to reach the Promised Land,” Adams said. “As a leader, what really bothers me is that he doesn’t have a relationship with everybody in the building. At the end of the day, he doesn’t address the team. If there’s a problem in the locker room, he lets another coach address the team. If we’re playing s—-y and we’re losing, he doesn’t address the entire team as a group at halftime. He’ll walk out of the locker room and let another coach handle it.”

Adams told Mehta that he will be “showing up for my teammates” when training camp opens next week, but wants to be “with an organization that wants to win and do things the right way.” There’s little sign that he feels the Jets will fulfill the second half of that desire.

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It's very clear he doesn't want to be a there trade him and get draft picks and a good player for him

 

I hope NFL Network and ESPN are more about football in the coming weeks and not 25% football, 75% reporting on who has COVID. I want me some football!!

 

Goodell: Training camps will open on time, NFL will play a full season



NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says all remaining issues have been addressed for the league to play a full season as scheduled.

Goodell said the league and the players’ union have agreed on every issue that needs to be agreed upon for training camps to open and the full regular season and postseason to be played.

“The NFL clubs and NFL Players Association approved an agreement that broadly resolves all outstanding issues relating to the opening of training camps and start of the 2020 season. Training camps will begin as scheduled,” Goodell said. “We have worked collaboratively to develop a comprehensive set of protocols designed to minimize risk for fans, players, and club and league personnel. These plans have been guided by the medical directors of the NFL and the NFLPA and have been reviewed and endorsed by independent medical and public health experts, including the CDC, and many state and local public health officials. The season will undoubtedly present new and additional challenges, but we are committed to playing a safe and complete 2020 season, culminating with the Super Bowl.”

That’s good news for football fans, who will now cross their fingers and hope nothing unexpected happens in this most unpredictable of years.

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If only I believed that were true. I'm still hoping for a full season, but I see the covid numbers every day and there is a little voice in the back of my head that gets louder and louder every day that says "not happening !!!" We'll see.

 

Chiefs G Laurent Duvernay-Tardif is the first player to opt out of the 2020 season

 

I know people won't value safety enough to begin liking this trade, but Jamal Adams is worth what will most likely average out to two late first round pics and a third, along with a stop gap player.

Seattle frees up the money used to sign McDougald (roughly $4mil) and locks down the back half of their defense for over a decade, barring injury.

I really like this move for all three parties involved.

The compensation is solid for the Jets and if they can use those picks wisely it will give them a chance to build around Sam Darnold, something that paying big money to the best safety in football doesn't do.

 

I agree 100% Tim.

let’s face it, the Jets has to move on before training camp. The only thing I dislike about this is that yet another disgruntled player gets his way by talking trash on social media about his team. I believe in free speech, but it makes it too easy to punch your ticket out of town when you aren’t happy.

Adams has lived up to the #6 overall pick and the Jets basically received #6 compensation from a team like Seattle and where they likely will pick the next two years.

makes sense for all parties

 

I can understand the debate re Adams/ the Seahawks side, but the compensation for the Jets is more than solid, its outstanding. Adams had gone into full locker room cancer mode as far as the Jets were concerned, he had to go. Getting that much in return really was best case scenario at this point. Totally agree about building around Darnold, which is why this trade happened 3months late imo. The Jets need those picks to start working for them(and Darnold) NOW. Although holding them back a year will put the Jets in a better position if/when Gase gets fired after this season.

Yep, don't like seeing it happen to any team, particularly hate when it happens to my team.

 

The pizza delivery kid from The Simpsons seems to want to play the what if game. Ok, but that can cut both ways.

Granted i havent been following everything cap related this recently, but surely we're looking at significant cap unknowns and probable constriction in some form, possibly for multiple years. I imagine that will make cap management all the harder. Meanwhile you now have to blow up the positional market by making Adams the highest paid Safety in the league.

Think i'll take all the extra picks & increased cap flexibility thanks.

 

Joe Douglas on Jamal Adams trade: “This was an offer we couldn’t ignore”



More than 50 years after a Godfather from New York made the phrase, “We’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse” part of the American lexicon, a General Manager from New York has applied a twist to that catch phrase.

“This was an offer we couldn’t ignore,” G.M. Joe Douglas said Saturday regarding the trade that sends safety Jamal Adams and a 2022 fourth-round pick to the Seahawks for two first-round picks, a third-round pick, and safety Bradley McDougald.

“This trade provides us with a unique opportunity to improve our team with multiple first-round picks in each of the next two years and the flexibility to continue to build this team for the future,” Douglas said. “Adding Bradley McDougald’s consistency and production to this year’s team was an important piece that gives us more experience on defense. While we had maintained our interest in Jamal Adams having a long and successful career with the Jets, we know it’s important to be prepared and willing to adjust to new offers and circumstances. As I have always said, my job is to listen to calls and this offer was one we could not ignore.”

Indeed they couldn’t. Adams wanted out, with his most recent efforts including calling out owner/U.S. ambassador to Britain Woody Johnson after allegations of workplace misconduct in his govermental role and speaking on the record regarding the question of whether coach Adam Gase is the right man to lead the team. The scorched-earth campaign easily could have cratered trade interest, whether because a team like the Seahawks deemed the Jets to be desperate or because the Seahawks wouldn’t want to surrender significant value for a chronic malcontent who, if things don’t go his way in Seattle, may target ownership, teammates, and/or coaches there.

So, no, the Jets couldn’t say no. They had to be thrilled that they got what they could, only days before Adams would have shown up for training camp with an attitude that would have given a team that already has plenty to worry about even more things to navigate as the season approaches.

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