Thread: NFL has lost its mind

All this drama over a mask?

JHFC

Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

Great points here. I should be more clear that I believe there are a priori data-driven justifications, but they are absent from public consumption. So until the experts disclose this a priori justification, it is fair--no, it is necessary--for those who feel competent to challenge such arguments to do so.

Oh!

Okay, now I see what you're getting at.

I guess it's like when an expert witness takes the stand and has to prove their positions, the basis of it, etc. I can't just be like 'your honor, ole girl with the MIT degree says it be like that, so that is what it be like.

That's sloppy, but I'm out of coffee and studying for midterms, so take it easy on me.

I will say this - some of the articles are saying 'expert advice' when the experts themselves are basis their advice off of findings. The journalists aren't lying/wrong, but it could be more precise.

This was...I enjoyed this.

Let's do a podcast.

Originally Posted by Jaded

All this drama over a mask?

JHFC

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Originally Posted by wayninja

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Originally Posted by Hawgdriver

Great points here. I should be more clear that I believe there are a priori data-driven justifications, but they are absent from public consumption. So until the experts disclose this a priori justification, it is fair--no, it is necessary--for those who feel competent to challenge such arguments to do so.

In other news, the NFL and NFLPA agree to a set of protocols in order for the players to agree to play the 2020 season.

Originally Posted by Tned

In other news, the NFL and NFLPA agree to a set of protocols in order for the players to agree to play the 2020 season.

lmao get your redneck ass to bed already, some of us have to work for a living

I'd wear the damned mask if I was a HC. 100k are you kidding me?

Maybe BB style tho, and I'd cut off the metaphorical sleeves of the mask. However I could do that within the letter of the law...

Not to fanboi on BB. But kinda.

Originally Posted by Jaded

All this drama over a mask?

JHFC

Not only that. All this drama over OTHER PEOPLE having to wear a mask!

Originally Posted by BroncoWave

Not only that. All this drama over OTHER PEOPLE having to wear a mask!

Not only that, all this drama over wearing masks when it was agreed by the NFL and NFLPA that these types of precautions would need to be taken (and far more than this happens outside of gameday) in order for the players to agree to play the 2020 season.

Talk about manufactured drama. Wow.

159 posts in and Tned is still pointing out that there is a rule that was agreed to. A point that was never in play.

Originally Posted by LawDog

159 posts in and Tned is still pointing out that there is a rule that was agreed to. A point that was never in play.

Because it's the only point that really matters. There is some battle being fought in here on behalf of the coaches that the coaches themselves aren't really fighting. The ones who were fined, from what I have seen, have all acknowledged that they need to do better.

Originally Posted by BroncoWave

Because it's the only point that really matters. There is some battle being fought in here on behalf of the coaches that the coaches themselves aren't really fighting. The ones who were fined, from what I have seen, have all acknowledged that they need to do better.

They got fined $100,000 and the team an additional $250,000. What do you think they’re gonna say?

This is a bunch of us sitting on our couches watching a game on tv and commenting that said rule doesn’t make much sense, and others saying, “but rules”.

Yep. But rules. Pot is legal in colorado, it's not allowed in the NFL.

Sorta dumb, but rules.

Like I said earlier, it can be both. There can be nuance here. Specifics of the rule are dumb. Other specifics of the rule make some kind of sense. At the end of the day, for better or worse, this was packaged up and signed off on. Now the only thing to do is run with it.

Originally Posted by LawDog

159 posts in and Tned is still pointing out that there is a rule that was agreed to. A point that was never in play.

162 posts in and you are still complaining about coaches getting fined for not following a agreed upon rules, and AFTER the NFL warned clubs after week one that there would be consequences if coaches continued to ignore it.

So, it appears you need to keep being reminded that the NFL and NFLPA agreed to a full set of protocols in order for the players union to agree to play the 2020 season.

Originally Posted by LawDog

They got fined $100,000 and the team an additional $250,000. What do you think they’re gonna say?

This is a bunch of us sitting on our couches watching a game on tv and commenting that said rule doesn’t make much sense, and others saying, “but rules”.

Well, since this isn't P&R, and as those of us (I believe you have been in that thread) know that there is a BIG disagreement at the root of the virus, masks, etc., some of us are obeying forum rules and NOT debating whether or not the rule makes sense, and instead focusing on the simple fact that without it, we wouldn't have a 2020 season for you guys to bitch about its dumb rules.

If you want to debate the merits of the rule itself, let's do it in the pandemic thread, since I don't want to get banned for discussing P&R topics in a BT thread (although Lord knows most reasonable people wouldn't consider discussing a pandemic to be "political").