![]() ![]() If confident means we’re comfortable, then that’s not where we are. But I will tell you this: We’re never going to get comfortable. When I asked if he’s confident the season gets played to its completion, he said: “I am. He sounded like a man who’s doing as much as he can do to ensure the season, somehow, gets played in full-even though he knows postponing or canceling during the season might be a reality, particularly if a second wave of the virus hits. Goodell, when we spoke, sounded temporarily confident. “If there’s an outbreak on the Eagles, Josh will be away from the team and ready,” agent Mike McCartney said Sunday. Josh McCown, the 41-year-old quarterback, will be an insurance policy joining quarterback and team meetings on Zoom. This year will be full of them-like the Eagles using one of their 16 practice-squad spots on a player who will be on the team virtually. If you love football and want to see the season happen, don’t cry about the little things. and Vegas, and for America to be able to forget its pandemic and unemployment and debt and virtual-school nightmares for a few hours every Sunday, Monday and Thursday, then the NFL’s going to be hardline about the rules. If this is what it takes to see Mahomes magic, and Tom Brady as a Buc, and Cam Newton huddling with Bill Belichick on the sideline, and the sick new stadia in L.A. The specter of COVID-19 hangs over the season, with daily virus tests for players, coaches and team employees continuing into the future most stadiums prepared to ban fans at the start of the season weird standards of 75-decibels max for in-stadium noise levels and restrictive travel rules for road teams. Final cuts made, fantasy drafts held, Jadeveon Clowney signed, Houston-Kansas City four nights away ( 7 p.m. It’s beginning to feel like an NFL season. If we feel like we have an outbreak, that’s going to be driven by medical decisions-not competitive decisions.” There will be potential competitive inequities that will be required this season because of the virus and because of the circumstances that we wouldn’t do in other years. ![]() We’ve obviously gone through work on that basis with teams. “I don’t know,” Goodell said Friday afternoon. “Do you believe,” I asked Roger Goodell on the eve of the most unpredictable NFL season of our time, “that you may have to play a season where every team does not play a full 16-game schedule?”
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