Mark Davis on postponement: Health and safety always No. 1, but it’s tough

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The NFL postponed the Raiders-Browns game scheduled for Saturday afternoon to Monday because of the ongoing COVID outbreak in the Browns organization and the news was met with negative reactions from Raiders players on Friday afternoon.

Raiders owner Mark Davis said that it is a “competitive disadvantage” to a Raiders team that was all set to fly to Cleveland when they found out their trip will be delayed. Davis noted that the team will then have to fly back to begin a short week before facing the Broncos despite having no players on their COVID reserve list.

While he feels it is a disadvantage, Davis said he agreed with prioritizing health and safety while making a suggestion he feels would better balance things out.

“Health and safety is always No. 1, but it’s tough,” Davis said to Paul Gutierrez of ESPN.com. “Maybe Cleveland should travel here. That would make it more fair.”

That’s not going to happen, so the Raiders will have to find a way to roll with the changes and play well through the changed landscape.

34 responses to “Mark Davis on postponement: Health and safety always No. 1, but it’s tough

  1. Yeah Riiiiiight. Unicorns are real too. Players are commodities to owners.

    Side Bar: has anyone spoken to the fact there will be hundreds of thousands of fans closely situated at the games? If Covid spreading like wildfire with players and Teams, it’s going do the same to fans in the stands.

  2. Mark Davis is a coward the league fined and forced us to play TB even moved the game up he has no spine definitely not like his legendary dad Al Davis who would of called it b.s.

  3. Umm, talk to the Steelers. Remember how many times they were jerked around last season?

  4. No mention of the other 2 games being postponed. Maybe they should all travel to Vegas so all 5 teams get a win over his team.

  5. The covidiots clown show STILL rages on! The Vax is not a Vax, it’s very weak and ineffective, and the PCR tests are not accurate and were not meant for testing viruses- as the inventor of it described. The covidiots will not admit they are wrong, instead, they’re just digging their heels in deeper and the sheeple keep on, keepin’ on.

  6. The covidiots clown show STILL ….a nd the sheeple keep on, keepin’ on.

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    So if “covidiots” are sheep, what are ewe and your comrades? Oh yeah. Donkeys.

  7. My god when did the NFL get so SOFT! I can remember when they actually played real tackle Football……

  8. no doubt if this was the raiders, they would make them play, and then fine them ,and take draft picks. The nfl is so rigged, and more obvious than ever. All about “entertainment”

  9. Tim says:
    December 17, 2021 at 5:44 pm
    The covidiots clown show STILL rages on! The Vax is not a Vax, it’s very weak and ineffective, and the PCR tests are not accurate and were not meant for testing viruses- as the inventor of it described. The covidiots will not admit they are wrong, instead, they’re just digging their heels in deeper and the sheeple keep on, keepin’ on.
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    Pretty sure you don’t know the meaning of sheeple.

  10. Hopefully anybody that’s symptomatic will get the “Rogan treatment.” You know, since it works, unlike the experimental vaccine.

  11. Why wouldn’t the NFL say they need to validate the accuracy of all vaccination cards before a game can be postponed. If a team is found to have fake cards the game will be forfeited

  12. Real men would show up and play, years ago they would play offense and defense. The NFL needs to man up grow some.

  13. COVID has knocked Brandon Staley off the news.

    Anyway, contrary to soprano-screech-voiced Nick Wright and the suave Colin Cowherd defending Staley, let me add my analysis.

    1. If Staley had a target score to beat KC, all well and good. You have 60 minutes to do it.
    2. There was not even a 3-pt reward for a terrific kickoff return to open the game.
    3. Then KC throws uppercut by going the length of the field for a TD. How’s it going now, Brandon?
    4. Belicheck always let’s the game develop and never has a target score.
    5. I called a 31-20 win for KC after the failed opening drive. Not far off.

    Staley absolutely blew it. And 17-10 at half would have been prudent.

    I hope NE faces Staley for the AFC championship.

  14. 17,212 new COVID cases in Cuyahoga County over the last 2 weeks. You’d think the Browns might actually want to play in Vegas instead of Cleveland.

  15. Glad Davis lands on the health and safety concern – but can’t believe the whining feedback from raider fans and Davis about their competitive disadvantage and short week. They play Sunday after a Monday night game, something teams are pretty accustomed to. The Browns play Saturday after a Monday night game – so remain at a disadvantage. Davis says maybe the Browns should fly to LV – the fact is the raiders could spend all day Tuesday flying around to visit cities they’ve abandoned and would still be on par with Cleveland the following week.

  16. This whole thing is tough for everyone involved…but I would love to ask the NFL this…if 94 percent of the players and 100 percent of staffers are vaccinated (their stated numbers)…then why are all these players coming up positive and/or contagious? Either their procedures are shoddy or these vaccines aren’t working as advertised…

  17. The poor Raiders…wah, wah, wah. A new variant is exploding in the league (and everywhere else) but the poor Raiders have to wait a couple of days to play a game. The absolute outrage! Maybe they should forfeit to protest! That’ll show them!

  18. People still fighting over obvious facts. 1) Yes, the vaccines work. But not at preventing transmission or infection. They are obviously not as advertised, but do prevent serious illness extremely well. 2) PCR tests are over sensitive, resulting in positives for low viral loads and for those whose immunity will prevent them from showing any symptoms. 3) Masking clearly doesn’t stop the spread. 4) We are way, WAY past being able to contain this thing. The contact tracing is utterly useless and has been since May of 2020. 5) We.have to live with this. Test only symptomatic people and focus on treatment and prevention, especially for the vulnerable. Life must go on.

  19. NFL rep. “Mr. Tatum you tested positive for a virus and you can’t play in Sunday’s game.”

    *******************************************************************************************

    Jack’s response, “Watch me”….. “Hey George, (Atkinson) there’s an NFL rep. that wants to speak with you, something about a virus or something…….”

  20. Its not a vaccine if it does not immunize you from the virus. Its a theraputic. Anybody else wonder why the drug companies have been given immunity from lawsuits resulting from harm done by the vax? Reuters just wrote a story about why Pfizer wont give the vax to refugees because they legally are not bound by any countries laws and could sue them if the vax harms them…. open you eyes folks, you have been played.

  21. cs-lewis says:
    December 17, 2021 at 8:08 pm
    Its not a vaccine if it does not immunize you from the virus. Its a theraputic. Anybody else wonder why the drug companies have been given immunity from lawsuits resulting from harm done by the vax? Reuters just wrote a story about why Pfizer wont give the vax to refugees because they legally are not bound by any countries laws and could sue them if the vax harms them…. open you eyes folks, you have been played.

    Hoping for your sake you are just trolling. If not, you need help.

  22. I agree with mancave2022…life must go on. But personally I’m sick and tired of this thing being politicized to the degree it has. I have lost several family members and friends (14 and counting). But every single one was either over 70 and/or had one or more comorbidities (diabetes, hbp, smoker/previous smoker, etc). All lives are precious, but when did we start forcing things on people. If you want the vaccine, great…we know it lowers the severity of infection. If not, your choice, you know the risk. And let’s move on. Stop ostracizing people because they choose to do something different with their own body. And no, I’m not anti-vax. I served on active duty and been all over this beautiful planet…I’ve had more vaccinations than most.

  23. I’m sure Mark Davis would love a forfeit. He’d get a win an not have to pay his players. I thought the threat of forfeit was on unvaccinated teams. When the rules were agreed to no one knew or thought Covid would spread among vaccinated players. Plus it’d be a lot more “fair” to force the Brown’s to travel to Vegas on Monday an turn around an travel to Green Bay on Saturday for the packers game.

  24. Chiefs lost 1/5th of their starting defense to Covid and yet they HAD to play Thursday night.

    Toughen up and play the games as scheduled. I thought I’d read that there were going to be no more postponements this year?

    So much for next man up.

  25. I am not a fan of delaying games beyond Monday night (Not a huge fan of Thursday night either = but teams are aware of it when the schedule came out) because the short week the next week is difficult to deal with. Last year when the Steelers got moved to Thursday (their last win in the streak of 11 last year). They then had to turn around and play the next Monday (four days rest). This started their implosion going 1-4 the rest of the season. Was the short turn around and the mental preparation involved a part of the problem? I do not know, but it is unfair for the team that does NOT have the problem.

  26. Screw the NFL and their hypocritical BS. Goodell needs to be hung out to dry. Funny how they made us play the Bucs last year when we were ravaged. This whole league is corrupt and biased.

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