Postponing Broncos game necessary to avoid revolt
Postponing the Patriots-Broncos game that was supposed to take place Monday evening was not ideal for the NFL.
It takes a wrecking ball to the league’s schedule. The domino effect of having to move just one game is maddening — a total of eight games had to be moved around, affecting six other teams.
Yet postponing PatriotsBroncos was the only decision for the NFL to make if it wanted to avoid a player revolt.
A noticeable whiff of rebellion has been in the air for the past week. With the Titans experiencing an outbreak of COVID-19 that infected at least 24 people, and the Patriots having to fly to Kansas City, Mo., to play a game just two days after a significant portion of the team was exposed to CamNewton, NFLplayers are starting to question the league’s protocols and the executives making the decisions.
The Patriots are upset they were forced to play last Monday night against Kansas City. The Broncos are upset they practiced all last week, and won’t get a true bye week. The Titans have lost faith in the testing system. The Dolphins, Jets, Jaguars and Chargers want to know whytheir schedules were likely blown up by a Patriots-Broncos game that had nothing to do with them.
And it’s not just the league office drawing raised eyebrows. The NFL Players Association, which has had equal say in developing the NFL’s protocols, isn’t inspiring confidence from the players, either. Patriots cornerback Jason McCourty said he has been his team’s voice on recent NFLPA conference calls, “trying to figure out who has our best interest in mind.”
“The people that don’t have