players if your unvaccinated tested every day, so they're
testing Monday to but it's the vaccinated Monday Tuesday,
Wednesday, thereabouts. That's when we find out who's positive
and more accurately
who played positive yesterday and who possibly had been positive
since the day after or the minute, after they last had
their - test a week ago, 3737,
total player. Positive
covid test today
in the National Football League Shireen, it shows you, it's not
going anywhere. It shows you
it's not dissipating. And it shows you that the NFL
continues to be very Vigilant about, even though it's
a battle at times, at times. It feels like we're losing.
Well, and it also shows you Mike that it's still going to
affect games. I mean, you look at tonight's games
legitimately. This could affect the Cardinals, Rams game,
Jalen, Ramsey, and Tyler. Higbee tested positive today,
you look at all the players
from that Rams team who are on the covid list and they're down
players. You look at the Lions yesterday because of covid and
flu and everything else going around their building. This is
not going away in the teams that handle this, the best,
the rest of the way are going to be the teams
that
Going to see probably have a better chance to win in
the postseason. It's key time and now we're coming up on
Christmas Day. We had Thanksgiving, everybody
gathered. We had Halloween, we had a little uptick and then
now
we're having an uptick after Thanksgiving, guess what
Christmas is coming. People are going to gather, we're gonna
have an uptick after Christmas too. And that's really when it
comes into play, Mike, when we start the postseason run right
after Christmas.
And this gets back to something we discussed
as it relates to Amari Cooper and he eventually after we had
raised the point. He himself asked, why can't I play
while I'm covid positive? Why can't I play while I'm sick?
People play when they have the flu, although he incorrectly
cited. The Michael Jordan Flu Game. As we learned in the Last
Dance. It was food poisoning,
although something he was hungover. Officially, it's food
poisoning that derailed Michael Jordan, but Because he came
back and had that great game in the what 97 97 98 90-something
championship had to be 90 something, girl, in the 90s. Anyway,
at some point, at some point, not this year, at some point in
the life of this pandemic, which is becoming endemic to
the population. There will be, I believe
a procedure by the NFL, that allows players to play
and that maybe
treats them in a way that they're completely separate
from other players inside the building. But out in the open,
I think that it's going to happen. And
someone explain to me a few weeks ago, the therapeutic
treatment not the vaccinations, but the stuff you can take and
we'll be taking if you have it is going to become so
effective. That it can be neutralized quickly
and it won't be an issue where
we have these random lightning strikes. And we had 37
lightning strikes today that result in players, not playing
in a shrine mention, it can affect games. I mean, tonight
out of the blue Jo Anne Ramsey, Rams Corner
out on the covid list. Tyler, higbee, Rams tight. And out on
the covid list and in an age of widespread gambling, if you've
already put money on the games, I guess the lesson is Shireen
wait until the last minute, to put the money on
the games, unless you have some inside information is to whose
tested positive for covid. Wait till the last minute because up
until the last minute, a key player could be gone like that.
Well, and especially Mike if you have a team that's in
the enhanced protocols because then at that point they have to test
every day and you don't know who's going to test positive
the day of the game,
even if they're vaccinated. So yeah, I guess that is the key
and I think you're right at some point. We just kind of
I don't want to say move on from it, but guys, play with covid
if they're asymptomatic. And I think that's the key and
I'm already talked about that, but then he came back Mike and
he wasn't breathing, right? And all that sort of stuff. So it
took him a while to recover from that. So I don't know how
he could have played with covid. Just from the simple
fact that when he finally came back he wasn't, he didn't look
right now. He had to
hit a big game. He a couple big catches, I get that, but he
wasn't able to play an entire game with covid, just
the breathing and all that had been affected by it. So I think
that's a key thing to are you asymptomatic. Can you breathe?
Can you get out there and do what you need to do over
the course of a game? And we all know the NFL said it
repeatedly, they
Have no evidence that it can be transmitted during a game. And
I think that's key.
Yeah, they believe that from day one that there isn't enough
of a confinement in the spaces, even in a dome stadium for
the droplets for sufficient droplets, a high enough
concentration to make it
from one person to the next.
The Ramsey and Higby development. Cause the line to
move from Two and a Half. That's Cardinals. -
two-and-a-half ramps plus two and a half to three as soon as
that news broke. So,
hey.
Two and a half that half put that half Point, can make
a huge difference yesterday.
The Browns look like they were easily covering they want by to
the line was two and a half so that half Point can be huge
Dolphins. Bye week.
Apparently they weren't as careful as they needed to be on
the by all three. Miami running backs have covid. Phillip
Lindsay, miles Gaskin. It's Avant Achmed. So now again, we
saw it with TJ, w a couple of weeks ago where he landed on
the covid reserve
list on Monday and was able to come back on Saturday, but that
usually doesn't happen much of it depends upon when they had
it when they got it. How long they've been positive. Maybe
they're moving toward the back end of it. But for now you got
three guys.
All the running backs, so it's going to be next, man. Up next,
man, up next, man, up for Miami against the Jets. And this is
a team that, you know, out of sight out of mind. That's how
the bye week works, but they're very much in the thick of
things in
the AFC, playoff field at six and seven
and just another, another
vague
unexpected out of the blue Trio of lightning strikes here,
the good news for the Dolphins. I have some time to adjust to it
on like the Rams who find out just a couple hours before,
kickoff the not going to have one of their best players.
Boy, and that hurts might because he already down
a corner. They already had Darrell Henderson and a couple
of the guys on there. And now they have Darius Williams and
David long to stop that cart, those Cardinals receivers who
we know are very, very good. They need Jalen Ramsey.
They need their best corners out there and they need more
than two corners is going to take a lot of Corners to stop
that Cardinals passing game. This hurts this hurts a lot for
the Rams and like you said, there's just no time to adjust.
I mean, it's like, all
right, get out there and play with
I have to make some adjustments with our scheme and things that
were asking you to do. But they're calling up guys, from
the practice squad, who are going to play tonight.
The Washington football team has four players on the covid
reserve list including Jonathan Allen. Again, this is
the Monday ritual and it's just it's
a strange protocol. It's a strange procedure and I think
that this is another reason why they need to really work on
next year's procedure to come up with a way to let guys who
may be positive.
Play if they are asymptomatic because Alan presumably had it
yesterday and was playing was shedding virus around teammates
in the locker room on the field on the bus. That
was a home game. So it's not like they had to fly, but
I don't even know if they take a bus but regardless they
the the point is you're around other people a day before you
test positive. It's an imperfect system and
they really need to work on it. They really need to come up
with a way to allow guys to play if they have no symptoms.
No.
No, I mean they can they can run through a mini Gauntlet of
test your marine and say yeah, even though this guy's positive
we can still play. I think that's the next step in
the evolution of this
because the one thing that we're learning is it's not
going anywhere.
No, it's not. And we've seen that repeatedly in the numbers
are going up September and October. They weren't very high
and then after Halloween, they start in whether that played
a part or not. I don't know,
but the numbers went up after Halloween into November and now
they're way up in December and perhaps it's what the weather
changed to might more people indoors around other people and
and frankly, we've all kind of gotten,
you know, when you go out and do you always wear your masks?
Do you always do the right things? And maybe not. So, Kids
coming home from school all those sorts of things. So
there's a lot of ways that you can get covid and then once
it gets in that building, it spreads around as we've seen
with the Lions and now with the Rams and was some other teams.