(09-02-2021, 12:20 AM)OzJohnnie Wrote:

(09-01-2021, 06:07 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: This discussion isn't about "anti-vaxers" or "vaxers".  The players are grown men and can choose their own health decisions.  The discussion is about the NFLPA investigating Coach Meyer for a comment that he made.

Keep the discussion to about whether or not a team can or can not make a decision based on vaccinated or not.

I reckon the answer has to be yes. If being unvaccinated results in special punishments for player and team then the cost of rostering an unvaccinated player is higher. So if you’re a borderline cut then vaccination status is a very clear variable for consideration.  The NFL rules have made it so.

In fact, it’s so obviously the case that NFL with either have to let the non-vax penalty quietly disappear or the PA will need to put vax status into the category of medical justifications for a cut.  The nfl penalty for non-vax makes the situation no different than a borderline player with chronic knee issues.

The real can of worms comes when this precedent is used for other vaccinations. What about a player without a TB vaccination?  Or measles?  My bet is that the NFL quietly let’s the penalty disappear but you never know now days.

Here's the stickler, too. If any coach out there is dense enough to jettison players solely based on whether they got jabbed, he's allowing his talented players to end up on the competition, and that coach likely ain't gonna stick around long.

Let's be brutally honest here, we didn't cut any MVPs. For each and every one of the players cut on Tuesday, there is plenty of other reasoning to justify how they didn't make the final roster. I kinda thought Cole Beasley might end up let go, but he's been so vocal against the matter that the team is almost held hostage, as dismissing him could easily be construed as a retaliation. 

I can remember student teaching in college, before I was ever allowed on a county school campus I had to get proof of vaccinations. IIRC it was TB test that they inject a ton of fluid at the base of your wrist, check back in two days to see if there's still swelling or inflammation, and I missed my first confirmation check so had to get that welt of fluid a second time. I did it, though, because I wanted to be able to do the thing I was pursuing as a career.

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