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The Broncos-Patriots game, which had been rescheduled from today to Monday, is getting moved to next week per Adam Schefter:
Broncos-Patriots game is being moved to next Sunday, sources tell ESPN.
Broncos were supposed to play Miami; that won’t happen. That game is being rescheduled.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) October 11, 2020
This comes after the news that a Patriots coach tested positive for Covid-19; previously, Stephon Gilmore and Cam Newton had tested positive.
The Patriots were scheduled to have a bye next week; as Schefter said, the Broncos were scheduled to play the Dolphins. How the NFL maneuvers the jigsaw puzzle from here is anyone’s guess. Denver’s bye was originally supposed to be Week 8 and Miami’s is Week 11.
It also remains to be seen what is happening with Titans-Bills. They are slated to play Tuesday, but another Titans employee just tested positive. This game affects Bills-Chiefs, which is supposed to be played Thursday but would be moved to Sunday if Titans-Bills indeed happens on Tuesday.
It’s clearly time for the NFL to add Week 18 to the schedule so there is a buffer space for these types of events.
This is dumb. The NFL needs to step back and reassess their approach and policy on Covid, or they’re not going to finish the season. Just because a handful of players or coaches on the team get Rona doesn’t mean cancel a game. You isolate those and keep trucking. There’s no need to cancel the game unless you have a true outbreak. Again, they have to re-examine their approach or we are not going to make it through the season.
If they are that afraid and it appears they are just shut the season down this is just getting to be a comical circus.
I thought they had expanded rosters