(04-01-2020, 10:58 AM)Kane Wrote:

(04-01-2020, 10:21 AM)Rico Wrote: For whatever it's worth, from the O-Zone today:

"Yes, though reports as of Tuesday were that the league will announce the 2020 schedule no later than May 9. Reports also were that the league plans to play a full schedule with no delays."

IMO, and I'm not a doctor or scientist but, Preseason is 5 months away, with the regular season 6 months out, I'd be planning to go ahead as scheduled too if I were the NFL. To think we (the greatest country in the world with an endless supply of money and resources) won't have a bead on this thing in that much time is silly.
This virus is here for good. It won't be completely eradicated likely ever. But life must go on at some point. This means gatherings in public places, sports, concerts, festivals...
If not July-August, when? December? 2021? It just seems crazy to me that so many people are taking the apocalyptic mindset that life is going to be so drastically altered for so long (and some people think for good) 

We're about to get peak numbers of cases and deaths this month and then it'll be on the downward slope by May I believe. I think by July 4th weekend life will be mostly back to some semblance of normal. There won't be OTAs but there will be a training camp I think, perhaps just a couple weeks leading into preseason.
If we're still preventing people from gathering in large numbers come September to combat this virus... it may very well signal the end of the world. That'd be 7 months straight of limiting social gatherings through spring and summer and with it still bad enough to continue into fall... I can not fathom it being that bad, as bad as it is right now.

I was with you at the beginning. The league MUST prepare a full schedule, just in case things go as planned. You have to have a schedule. You don't know if, when, or for how long any delay may occur. You can't wait until a green light for gathering or play is given to begin the logistics of setting the full slate of games. Just because they schedule the games, though, doesn't mean they will all be played.

Don't be surprised if a lot of the conference games fall at the end of everyone's schedules. Those of course would be the last to cull from the schedule if there is a delay.

I'll reserve commentary on the short and long-term prognoses of curve-flattening to the political threads though.

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