(09-01-2021, 06:42 PM)NoShoes Wrote: Regardless of how you feel about Covid or the vaccine, current NFL rules makes players that are unvaccinated at a severe competitive disadvantage. A 10 day absence from a close contact could cost you 2 games, which is 10% of the season.

Everything else equal (and maybe even just simply close), you’re hurting the team keeping an unvaccinated player over a vaccinated player.

That's the key. It's not the lack of vaccine being the deciding factor, but all else bring equal, take the guy with less chance of having to go through the protocol. It would be similar if you had two guys of equal ability and one had a history of injury and the other was an iron man. Take the guy most likely to be available. Common sense.

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