(05-20-2020, 12:05 PM)p_rushing Wrote: The real risk is the players and coaches going home. You can control the players and coaches and ensure that they stay isolated, but you can't control their families and all the other people their families may come in contact with. If they really want to protect everyone, they need to isolate everyone for 2 weeks, test every day, and then put them all in a single hotel where no one leaves. It is the only way to ensure that they never come in contact with someone who has it.

The NFL would also need to isolate another 2 team roster of FAs so teams could make moves if needed. No one could join an NFL unless they were isolated and tested for 2 weeks.

I'm not a health expert, but from what I understand, the 2 week window is associated with eliminating all possible risk.
They may be able to get down to an acceptable level of risk with a shorter window of time.


If there are not any fans, it doesn't matter what stadium they choose to play in.  If the isolation window is very short, the NFL could keep the schedule the same without disturbing the player's lives too much.
But if it's a long isolation period, you're going to want to make some accommodation. Ship a whole division to one stadium, have them play round robin, three games for each of the four teams in that stadium.  The players will be away from home for 2 weeks. After that, they go home, and there's a two-week break until they play again, where they have to test virus free. Then you shuffle all the teams into new temporary "divisions" and repeat the process. Each player and each coach spends 15 days with three Sundays on the road playing, then they spend 13 days with one Sunday at home, not playing. Five cycles of three games each equals a 15-game season, the last cycle can be the same traditional division alignment as the first cycle

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