At least a few NFL coaches are questioning the viability of the 2020 Ezra Cleveland Men Jersey NFL season now that players from the Cowboys and Texans, including starDallas running back Ezekiel Elliott, for COVID-19.

One head coach told ESPN's Ed Werderthose positive tests are "." Another insisted toWerder the start of the season should be delayed, and a third "questioned the wisdom of playing during a pandemic."

The NFL to this point has not done much to alleviate the inevitable concerns a sociated with playing a season in such conditions. Because the league was fortunate the outbreak reached the United States during its offseason, it has been proceeding busine John Johnson Men Jersey s as usual albeit virtually through the spring and now the summer.

But training camps are scheduled to begin in a little more than a month, and the clock is ticking for the NFL to establish comprehensive health and safety protocols to be implemented for players, coaches and all team and league personnel Justin Jefferson Men Jersey .

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"Positive tests ," NFL commi sioner Roger GoodelladmittedMonday in a conversation with Mike Greenberg for ESPN's The Return of Sports special. "The i sue is, can we obviously prevent as many of those from happening, but in addition, treat them quickly, isolate them and prevent them from directly impacting our player personnel.

"So none of those players were in the facilities. All of those players, fortunately, have had either mild symptoms or are asymptomatic Cameron Heyward Women Jersey ."

But players soon will be invited back to team facilities, where all teams must stay for training camps this year. NFLPA executive DeMaurice Smith reportedly "expects to make headway on overall protocols going forward in the next 30 days or so."

Part of the plan, according to NFL Network, will be to and isolateanybody who tests positive. NFLPA medical director Thom Mayer reportedly told player agents "theres a 90 percentchance reliable saliva testing (will be)available before Geron Christian Sr. Jersey players return to facilities."

The NFL and NFLPA on June 8 released that established safety protocols for players to return to team facilities, including locker/meeting room modifications to account for social distancing, cones to establish one-way traffic Malcom Brown Jersey in common corridors anda limit of 15 players at a time for conditioning workouts. Players also will have to wear masks"except when interfering with athletic activities."

The protocols established thus far, though, do not account for on-field practice and/or games. According to NFL Network, the league is considering from 10 to 16 players (after initially planning to expand them to 12) for "greater roster flexibility" to account for Davante Adams Women Jersey positive tests.

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As for the NFL coach who told Werderthe start of the 2020 season should be delayed, the league built in a way that can accommodate such a nece sity. All teams are scheduled to play two home Jimmy Graham Youth Jersey games and two away games in the first four weeks with no division games scheduled in Weeks 3 or 4, and all the teams scheduled to play each other in Week 2 have the same Week 9 bye. So the season could be pushed back to October relatively easily.

But as was the case when the pandemic shut down live sports globally in March, everything is fluid. The NFL will do everything in its power to give that coach who"questioned the wisdom of playing during James Bradberry Men Jersey a pandemic" reasons for optimism, but as health officials have said for months, the virus will decide whether a 2020 NFL season is po sible.

"Unle s players are e sentially in a bubble insulated from the community and they are tested nearly every day it would be this fall," Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta on Thursday. "If there is a second wave, which is certainly a po sibility and which would be complicated by the predictable Rashaad Penny Women Jersey flu season, football may not happen this year."