DawgTalkers.net Forums DawgTalk Tailgate Forum What if the season is canceled?

I know it is still quite a ways off, but what happens?

Do the players still get paid?

Does the season count as far as free agency accrual for the players?

Will games still be played without fans in the stands?

Lot's of questions. I guess with baseball around the corner, what MLB does will give us a good indication of what the NFL might do even though baseball has minimal body contact as opposed to the other sports, but they are throwing a common ball around.

The best hope is this crisis goes away, and it will sooner or later, but right now it is looking like later.

Thoughts?

I think the league could come up with a modified off season program..

Continue with any activities that can be done via phone or video conferencing.. ie Free Agency.. Draft..

Send out playbooks to anyone on roster to have that in their hands.

Players can do individual workouts.

Scrap the Voluntary camp, and delay any team activities until early June. When its go time, players MUST show up.

If things don't look on the up before June, then just delay everything, and next years off season would just be shorter, which would be a win for fans anyway. lol.

I don't have all the answers, and probably not the right ones, but those are some thoughts off the top of my head.

I believe that there are to be no team visits for draft=eligible players and I fully expect that the draft will be conducted by video conferencing. I don't forsee the draft being cancelled...

The Draft is a big Hype machine. You really don't need that hype to effectively carry on the draft. I suspect that they'll have the draft but virtual vs being somewhere to make a big deal out of it.

I got no idea how they'll handle OTA's and Camp

I think there is every chance the crisis is ongoing come the start of preseason ... but my hope is that we are in control and have the ability to instantly test and see results. If so I could see the season going ahead - potentially without fans in stands - but with players and officials and team staff all tested before and after games.

The draft can all be done remotely and can be done without the hoopla that it has become. I still hate Thursday night starts ... much too Hollywood for me.

The biggest and maybe realistic hope for mid-summer is that we've found some kind of antiviral medicine to lower the risk of the severe symptoms. Meaning, we can lower the mortality rate for those at risk. That could elevate stress on the hospitals and reduce the fear among the public. And yes, with instant testing, they'd be able to quarantine people faster.

We should know a helluva lot more about the virus by then. Think about this, almost every scientist on the planet will be putting all else aside to help with this thing. The sheer amount of human hours put forth should and hopefully give us something to be positive about in late spring.

It's just a matter of waiting this thing out. I'm praying every 10 minutes that the smart humans out there can solve this puzzle.

Only then will we get to answer the question of whether or not we'll have a NFL season.

#GoScience

I’ve heard and read a few different things that have me worried that this will linger into the fall .. if the season is canceled, I’m sure the owners will be generous

But in reality, there’s probably some modification/compromise in the CBA

I propose a round-robin, double elimination, all-teams, no-byes tournament right after draft.

2020: We play rock-paper-scissors for the Super Bowl. We avoid the lame halftime spectacle, and it can all be done via teleconferencing. Neat, sweet, we get to compete. I am sure the NFL competition committee will want to meddle in this muddle, but, hey, instant replay and non-calls are possible. Everything else is hype-covered excess and merchandising, so business as usual. Big win for the money ballers.

Wish i was seriously joking.

If we are lucky things will be getting back to normal around July. That allows for the NFL to start on time. I don’t think we’ll be lucky.

Makes sense.

I would guess they'll stage it in Vegas next year and push Cleveland to 2022.

i wonder if they’d be able to

Might be the first season the Browns don't suck and let the greatest fan base ever down...

I really don't care about the over paid athletes as much as the single moms losing their jobs in the Restaurants Bars Cinemas Gyms etc etc... Not just single moms..but all people who already struggle on a daily basis.

I know many good people who lost their jobs and they never made $5000 a day. Some of my close stripper friends asked if I could put a pole in my basement.. I said hell noooo.. It's going in the living room...

If the season is canceled we will all pass Dawgs4Life in post count because there will be no gameday threads.

Sure hope so

Just to be clear this was a joke. Dawgs4Life is the best.

If everybody is still grounded and unemployed football will be the least of our worries.

My guess is that they would delay the season a month or so and/or play a few weeks without fans. It could be a shortened season as well. I think what MLB does will provide some clue as to how Goodell will go with it.

I don't know how they would handle it, but if you do do the above, do you reimburse fans who have tickets?

Covid19 isn't going away. How prevalent it is, is the question. So at some point, you have to grip it and rip it and live life. Viruses mutate too. Here we are though in 2020 where I was told as a kid back in the 80's we'd be rocketing to Mars but instead we are teaching people to wash their hands and cover their mouth when they cough....oh well...

Hey, I agree. Just trying to talk football and keep it level.


Stay safe everybody. Many stores now offer a senior hour from 7-8 to allow the hardest hit to by supplies before the mobs show up. Good move. We don't have large families. We buy for 1-2 and aren't going to get in to a fistfight over toilet paper.

I will be very surprised if school/college/football starts up in the Fall. I think this thing is just getting started. I hope I am wrong about that... Everyone stay safe out there! Hopefully, this won't get as bad as Italy.

I agree. Sticking a bunch of students in to dorm rooms isn't a good idea. It will all be online study.

I think we will have meds to fight it by May/June. And things will start getting back to normal for most folks. Only the elderly and immune deficient will still be at risk, although much lower with available treatments.

Biggest concern, is if the virus goes through more mutations and previous immunities are not enough.

The cratering of the economy, sports included, is flat out absurd. Ohio has a population 11.75 million people and only 88 cases so far. That translates to .000748% of the population. There is absolutely no reason to cancel or shut down anything.

Sorry you cant handle facts. Those are facts not opinions.

My facts are changing by the hour. Which still means it isn't even close to being signifcant.

So if what you do for work, and you went to your manager and said I wanna do this and your boss asks you, what are the chances of that happening, and you reply with .002% chance, you would get laughed out of his office

I am still trying to figure out what you are good at. Looking at your posts, I would say ZERO

That is definitely just your opinion.

You want to stop this before there's a widespread explosion of cases. That's a quick, easy reason.

Exponential growth doesn't play around. Numbers can go up quickly.

How best to avoid such a case is opinion. Are cancellations necessary? I dunno. That's a fact. Have an opinion on it? That's fine. Calling it a fact? You do you, I guess.

88 *confirmed* cases. This does not include anyone who has not yet been tested. There can be 100,000 in the state with the virus. Until they are tested, we do not know.

Diving 88 by the number of people in OH that has been tested, and whose results are in, might be a relevant ratio.

Perhaps the reason we have so few cases is because of the policies the Governor of Ohio has put into effect.

Even with what the state is doing, we are still ramping up in total cases each day ... and since we now have more test kits, those numbers may really increase, despite best efforts.

You are ignorant. That number is for cases testing positive. It is damn near impossible to test people here, even those with positive symptoms. I know people that are coughing and have fevers and can't get tested. People like you will cause deaths. Why don't you go on spring break, troll?