There’s likely to be a shared nightmare that keeps NFL headquarters guys awake at night: What if, in a week of games for the 2020 season, an entire quarterback room tests positive for COVID-19 ? An outbreak within any group of positions would be detrimental, but particularly quarterbacks: it is …
Read More »NFL players who attend ‘high risk’ events and contract coronaviruses face team discipline, non-payment
According to new league protocols, NFL players who contract the coronavirus through “high risk” activities outside of team facilities may face team discipline and may even be at risk of not being pay them. A memo sent by the NFLPA to agents this weekend, a copy of which was obtained …
Read More »Kneeling athletes should ‘get out of the country’
NFL Hall of Fame coach Mike Ditka said athletes who kneel during the national anthem should “leave the country.” After strongly criticizing former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick and others for starting the Black Lives Matter solidarity movement in 2016, the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police has not …
Read More »Eagles cut a bunch of guys
Needing to narrow their roster to 80 players before starting practice, the Philadelphia Eagles wasted little time and announced that they had quit five players. They are as follows: • WR Shelton Gibson: Gibson did not turn out as a fifth-round pick in 2017 as a deep threat on the …
Read More »Giants pitch Pro Bowl kicker Aldrick Rosas
The New York Giants are releasing Pro Bowl kicker Aldrick Rosas just days before the start of training camp after his arrest earlier this summer, according to multiple sources. Rosas, 25, was charged with three misdemeanors stemming from an accident that occurred on June 15 in Butte County, California. He …
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