Cruize

Our sports leagues have billions in resources and billions in incentives to play. Isolation. The quickest testing turn around being two days. Contact tracing. Yet, they still can't pull it off. It's been bungled from the start and we are still failing. Rich or poor. Black or white. Republican or Democrat. The virus does not care. Other countries have succeeded. They shut down. Stayed shut down. Tested. Contact traced. Listened to scientists. Weren't driven by politics and money. Vaccines are our only hope. There's no way we come together as a people.

AsylumGuido

The two day turnaround is for the public. Once the lab has the kit it can take as little as 30 minutes for them to have the result. The extra 47.5 hours of lag time involves getting the kit to the lab and then the results back to the patient through the submitting source. The NFL will have immediate access to the testing and results so the turnaround will a half hour or less. There are even "rapid" tests that gets the result in as short as seven minutes. Too expensive for the general public, but well worth the investment for the NFL. NOBODY gains access to anyone else until they have been cleared. Players will be isolated from outside contact for 24 hours before the game and tested the day before AND the day of the game.

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” — Winston Churchill

AsylumGuido

Hitta, the NFL has a number of huge advantages over all the other sports leagues.

1) The NFL has an almost bottomless pocketbook. It can easily afford daily and rapid testing. It can afford isolation housing prior to every game. Chartered transportation, etc.

2) The NFL has the latest start date. This has been touted as perhaps the biggest advantage. Not only can the NFL learn from other sports' successes, but more importantly from their mistakes. The Marlins had a breakdown in COVID protocols and that breakdown will be identified and most likely not repeated elsewhere.

3) The NFL schedule has its games spaced out a week apart, while other leagues play anywhere from three to seven games per week. On the rare occasions that players do need to be withheld it will be far easier to replace them come gameday.

4) The NFL has deeper rosters - both active and in reserve. It is much easier for the NFL to replace eight players testing positive during the week than any other league.

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” — Winston Churchill