It’s been 24 weeks since the last NFL game, and with the Rodgers-, Watson- and COVID-related events of the offseason, it seems like 24 years. The Cowboys and Steelers reported to camp last week (they play the first preseason game a week before the other 30 teams), and everyone else will be in camp by midweek.
The Delta variant had other ideas, and Eisen has a pretty important moral to the story. Rich Eisen was all set for a week in Italy with his wife.Allen Sills thinks the vaccine rollout is comparable to man landing on the moon. (I’ve never written that sentence before.) My training camp trip starts Wednesday in Nevada.Heard of “Back Together Saturday?” You will this week.In 2005, there were two 4,000-yard passing seasons. Patrick Mahomes and Joe Burrow enter camp full-go after big surgeries, which is just another reason this could be the golden season for quarterbacks.The worst teams in the last four years have something in common: a stadium.What do you give the man who has everything? An eighth Super Bowl ring. Another star tells me why he’s shocked that teammates (but only a few) are not getting the shot. One star shocks his family by getting vaxxed.I don’t know what will happen with Deshaun Watson, but I am from the Schefter school on this: The Eagles are likely to be in play when Houston trades him, assuming Houston does sometime before draft day 2022.I don’t know what will happen with Aaron Rodgers, but I do have a few scenarios.Did you know the last time the Bills and Browns entered training camp coming off playoff seasons was in 1990? Did you know the last time the Bills and Browns won a playoff game in the same season was in 1964? I do not remember a time when Lake Erie football was this anticipated, coming off the combined Buffalo-Cleveland record of 27-10 last year, coming off playoff victories for both.This morning, that means we’ll have a heavy dose of COVID-related stuff, but since you want to read about football and I want to write about it, and since I’ve been gone for six weeks, we’ve got a lot to do.
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In 2021, that’s reality.Īs we approach pro football’s 102nd season-and I approach my 38th covering this game-I’m going to do my best to cover everything about it. and paying the team with the walkover win as much as $5 million for not playing. And the teams with COVID-positive players that cause potential forfeits would be docked millions, per the NFL’s fairly stark Thursday memo to teams. There’s a vaccine, and if you’re not going to take it, your football life will either be much harder than the 80-plus percent of vaxxed players, or it will be extinct. Last year, the NFL and the players union empathized with the hardships and never mentioned the F word. That coach would have to charter a plane home, or have one chartered for him, to be available for Monday morning meetings and possible light Monday practice. One other problem: Say a team with an unvaccinated coach played a Sunday night road game. An unvaccinated assistant coach would have to run position meetings virtually while his players would sit together in a meeting room. An unvaccinated coach this year can’t travel with the team, can’t conduct in-person meetings of any kind, and can coach only outdoors. It’s worse for coaches, which is why if the Vikings terminate unvaccinated (as of Friday) line coach and run-game coordinator Rick Dennison, it’s not draconian-it’s necessary. But the reason is not hard to figure out.Īs an executive with one of the mostly vaxxed teams told me: “The league has made it clear that the unvaccinated are second-class citizens.” In this day and age, that seems incredible, to have maybe one to four holdouts on a 90-man roster, given where we are with vaccines in this country. There are three teams, at least, in the NFL as of this morning that are in the upper 90s in percent of players vaccinated, with zero unvaccinated coaches and key team staff members.
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