If they have to cancel the game Tuesday yet again...

NFL intends to keep this game Tuesday

 

I hope you are right. Today will be a big day in making a final determination on whether or not that will happen.

 

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You can't play 2 weeks in a now,on that short of rest...No way is that fair to those guys bodies...This isn't Basketball

 

Plan B for me as I stated earlier in this thread is a week 13 doubleheader try moving the Steelers Ravens game to Thursday this week as an absolute last resort and then move both the Steelers Washington and Dallas Ravens games to next Tuesday to finish week 13. It’s a much better scenario then trying to rearrange the entire NFL schedule and NFL playoff format. You would think by Thursday this week they can get the spread of this contained enough to play the game by then. It would be tough to deal with but this idea can work if by some chance the game Tuesday can’t happen yet again.

 

3 games in 10-11 days for both the Steelers and Ravens would be tough but it can work and is better then adding a week 18 and screwing the entire season up. Both teams have already had somewhat of a mini bye week so it would be tough no doubt but it’s doable and can be done.

 

To follow up with this the Ravens play the Browns on Monday night Dec 14th so they would get an extra day if this happens more so then the Steelers, and the Steelers play the Bengals on Monday Dec 21st so they would get an extra day after playing the Bills on that Sunday Dec 13th. Having the Steelers and Ravens play 3 games in a 10-11 day period would be tough but it’s doable and is an idea I think needs to be considered at least if the game Tuesday can’t happen. It’s not the worst idea in the world.

 

Ravens TE Mark Andrews has tested positive, that's a huge loss for them, he's their best receiving threat. The Steelers need to sell out to stop Gus Edwards.

 

There will be absolutely no excuses what so ever for the Steelers to lose this game with the amount of impact players that are missing on the Ravens roster. This game really shouldn’t be all that close especially if Ben is on his game and playing well. I don’t see RG3 being able to do all that much to begin with against this Steelers defense and especially now that he is missing a lot of his weapons on offense. The Steelers should win this game rather comfortably.

 

With the NFL closing on Monday and Tuesday except for the teams playing, I expect a number of outcomes:


First, game on Tuesday will happen. They’re playing today with all that’s going, play Tuesday. NBC wants a game that matters.

I wouldn’t be surprised if next weeks games are all moved to week 18. Bunch of positives throughout the league right now. High numbers everywhere. Take a week off, come up with a plan.

If they did this, no games would be missed as a result of this move. So, no need to expand playoffs just yet. They can either give up bye before Super Bowl or push it back.

 

That is a great idea and I think it they should consider it immediately. I would have no problem with this at all.

 

You make a lot of good points and I can see that happening but I don’t think the Steelers would have a problem getting up for this game and would lose any intensity.

 

You mean NBC. It's clear as day the Networks are running this show and not the NFL.

 

To think that a week 18 match will only be between Steelers/Ravens is short sited. Covid is going to jack up the remaining schedule and I feel their will be more teams rescheduled. The NFL doesn't want to have to do it but it looks like this might be in the cards even if they play Tuesday night.

What's crazy to me is that if they make the ravens forfeit not only do their players not get paid but either do the Steeler players.

And of course you hear nothing about discipline from goodell and his hencemen.

To top it off Conner and Bubble Yum have it.

 

We know Mike Tomlin reads this MB. Do you think NFL execs do?

 

What would be the problem with extending the season and moving the playoff and super bowl to different dates.

 

I thought so to, but I was wondering because I keep seeing talk of cancelled games and loss of playoff bye week.

 

Also one thing missed when talking about sick players is their families. Sure the pro football player is in great health but they have families as well. You don’t know if any of them have pre existing conditions, elderly parents they take care of, etc etc.

 

With COVID-19 cases spiking throughout the country, holiday travel making everybody nervous about further spikes and colder weather starting to limit outdoor activity, the NFL knows things are only going to get more difficult from here. The best case for the remaining five weeks of the regular season -- and the postseason that follows -- is that the league has to dance around continued chaos and bizarre situations like the ones that arose this week in Baltimore and Denver. The worst-case scenario is that it has to pause or cancel the remainder of the season because it reaches a point in which its protocols can't control the spread of the pandemic within team facilities.

The latter possibility feels more real than it has at any point since the protocols were agreed upon by the NFL and the NFL Players Association this summer, and it leads us to begin this week's overreactions column with the one that is dwarfing all of the others.


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