20 more teams starting virtual offseason programs on Monday

Posted by Mike Florio on April 26, 2020, 5:38 PM EDT
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Last Monday, NFL teams were permitted to launch virtual offseason training programs. This Monday, twenty more teams will be doing so.

Per a league source, these teams will launch stay-at-home sessions on April 27: The Cardinals, Ravens, Bengals, Broncos, Lions, Packers, Texans, Jaguars, Raiders, Rams, Dolphins, Vikings, Saints, Jets, Eagles, Steelers, 49ers, Seahawks, Buccaneers, and Titans.

Of those, the Ravens, Dolphins, Eagles, and Buccaneers will have virtual workouts. The other 12 will not.

The Bills, Colts, and Patriots launched virtual training programs with workouts last week. All teams were permitted to commence virtual training on April 20.

The NFL has allowed all teams to conduct a three-week virtual offseason training program. The actual offseason training program has not been canceled, but with all facilities closed due to the fact that most states in which NFL teams do business have stay at home orders, actual offseason programs are unlikely — unless all states with NFL teams open for business before the middle of June.

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14 responses to “20 more teams starting virtual offseason programs on Monday”

  1. And by the 28th Pete Carroll will have somehow managed to break virtual full-contact rules.

  2. Given what we know, and given what we can reasonably expect, I find the attitude of the NFL to be somewhat inexplicable, if not maddening. Anyone who reeally believes that there will be a 2020 season is delusional. Yet they carry on as if all were well and this is a mere temporary inconvenience. Unreal.

  3. imanidiot says:
    April 26, 2020 at 7:18 pm
    Given what we know, and given what we can reasonably expect, I find the attitude of the NFL to be somewhat inexplicable, if not maddening. Anyone who reeally believes that there will be a 2020 season is delusional. Yet they carry on as if all were well and this is a mere temporary inconvenience. Unreal.

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    You’re probably right but if that’s your approach we might as well all throw in the towel.

  4. Will there be a 2020 season? Almost certainly yes. Like 99.9%. There’d have to be a second wave of the virus that spreads more easily and kills more people in order for the league not to play.

    What’s a good question is whether or not there will be fans at these games.

    Players can be sequestered in hotels, away from anyone other than each other, if need be. You can play a season like that (especially since that would also mean the hotels are mostly empty, given the pandemic).

    Fans? not so much

  5. There will be a 2020 season. People are growng tired of the lockdown
    and by all accounts the virus has little effect on the healthy.
    There may be limits on those admitted into stadiums and PPE rules but it will happen.

  7. imanidiot says:
    April 26, 2020 at 7:18 pm
    Yet they carry on as if all were well and this is a mere temporary inconvenience. Unreal.
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    No, they carry on because that is what humans do. We don’t throw up our hands and say “all is lost, what’s the use of doing any planning for the future?” Inexplicable? No, waiving a white flag and giving up would inexplicable. As long as people in all walks of life are moving forward while adhering to guidelines and policies meant to keep everyone relatively safe, I don’t see an issue.

  8. The NFL just had one of the most successful and highly watched events on TV adjusted for the circumstances. Seeing the draftees and coaches and GMs in their homes with family gave us all a new perspective. The NFL needs to continue to take the lead. They have the money and the professionals to have an adjusted training camp, OTA or Pandemic schedule pending a season that may or may not start whenever, be it September or January. They can test players and staff and continue to test them. They can find remote locations in states and/or cities that have lifted stay at home orders and they can quarantine the players and staff from the outside world while they are together. How many billionaires have private jets? All of them. It can become a new type of hard knocks that all the world will watch.

  9. jerrystrashcan says:
    April 26, 2020 at 9:53 pm
    There will be a 2020 season. People are growng tired of the lockdown
    and by all accounts the virus has little effect on the healthy.
    There may be limits on those admitted into stadiums and PPE rules but it will happen.
    ===========================

    You probably should look a little harder at “all accounts”. Many, many otherwise healthy people have died. Most would agree that is more serious than can be brushed off as “little effect”.

  10. “I find the attitude of the NFL to be somewhat inexplicable, if not maddening. Anyone who reeally believes that there will be a 2020 season is delusional.”
    ____________

    Baseball going on right now in several Asian countries and museums and theme parks are reopening in China. No fans currently at the baseball games and social distancing in effect at the museums and theme parks but things are getting back up and running. Why would you think the same won’t be the case here in the near future?

  11. imanidiot says:
    April 26, 2020 at 7:18 pm
    “Given what we know, and given what we can reasonably expect, I find the attitude of the NFL to be somewhat inexplicable, if not maddening. Anyone who reeally believes that there will be a 2020 season is delusional. Yet they carry on as if all were well and this is a mere temporary inconvenience. Unreal.”

    GAME OVER MAN, GAME OVER!!!

  12. tuckthefitans
    Actually not. The overwhelming majority of deaths have been in people over 70 WITH a co-morbidity.

    Healthy and young people have about the same chance of being seriously affected by the flu.

  13. To be specific, as of April 14 312 people in the US between the age of 0 and 44 have died of Covid
    244 had an underlying condition.

    Your assertion that it is more than a minor danger to an otherwise healthy, young person has absolutely no basis in fact.

  14. If the LA Rams are having virtual workouts why aren’t the “LA” Chargers? It may be because it costs money and Dean Spanos won’t pay.

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