2020 Season - Will they play?

[stripesincarolina]

All camps now officially open on July 28th. I think your answer is as good as mine as to what form Bengals (or any team) camp will take. You still have many players saying they wont play in a shield. It remains to be seen how these teams and staff will quarantine. Should be interesting.

[Bengals1]

A dozen or so players will test positive after ten days or so and the league will reevaluate the whole thing....

[stripesincarolina]

From PFT.....

The Collective Bargaining Agreement does not include a force majeure clause. The league is essentially trying to force the players to accept one after the fact.

The most recent proposal from the NFL to the NFL Players Association sets forth a lengthy and detailed schedule of payments to be made in the event the season is suspended or canceled.

Wow....you have to be kidding me. The NFL didnt have lawyers competent enough to include a FM clause?!? This conversation is headed for disaster. They may not play due to contract issues related to Covid instead of just positive Covid tests.


Here's the rest of the article....

For starters, players would keep all signing, roster, reporting, or workout bonuses earned before cancellation of the season, along with base salary and per-game roster bonuses or per-game payments earned for any regular-season games actually played.

If the season is canceled before training camp opens, the players would get no further payment. If the season is canceled after training camp starts and before final roster cuts, all players on the 90-man roster who received a credited/accrued season in 2019 or who were drafted in 2020 would receive a $250,000 stipend, reduced by all other payments already made to the player this year. (For example, if a player received a $100,000 signing bonus, he’d receive $150,000 upon cancellation of the season. Any player who has received $250,000 or more this year would get nothing.)

If the season is canceled after the final roster cuts and before Week One, players on the 53-man roster and injured reserve or reserve/PUP would be eligible for the $250,000 stipend. Players on the practice squad would be eligible for a $100,000 stipend.

If the season is canceled during the regular season, players on the 53-man roster and injured reserve or reserve/PUP would be eligible for the $250,000 stipend, but money earned from regular-season games already played would also count against the stipend. Players on the practice squad would be eligible for a $100,000 stipend, minus other money earned.

For players who join the active roster after Week One, they would receive the lesser of $250,000 or their remaining prorated base salary. Players who join the practice squad after Week One would receive the lesser of $10,000 or their remaining prorated practice squad pay.

Incentives would be prorated and partially earned, as long as at least eight regular-season games are played by the player’s team. If, for example, a player has an incentive that pays him $1.6 million for 16 sacks, the incentive would drop to $1.2 million and the threshold would drop to 12 sacks if only 12 games are played.

Apart from the stipends, players will not be paid for games not actually played — even if player salaries are guaranteed for injury, skill, and/or salary cap.

Again, this is the league’s proposal. The players can adhere to the current status quo, which gives players their full salaries if only one game is played. The approach proposed by the league would reduce player pay dramatically, but it also would reduce the eventual financial consequences of the pandemic.


The owners are in deep shit here and they are honestly taking a huge financial risk even bringing these guys to camp. I certainly dont pretend to know the financials behind all of this, but getting the parties aligned this week seems like a long shot.

[stripesincarolina]

Assuming the NFLPA lets the rookies report, the 2020 season starts today in Houston and Kansas City. But with so many issues still unresolved I would be surprised if they show up. This is it folks, do or die this week.

[Bengals1]

Here's a step in the right direction...

NFL-NFLPA Agree to Daily Covid Testing.....

[https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2 ... 9-testing/]

[Bengals1]

Report: League agrees to no Preseason Games....


[https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2 ... son-games/]

[stripesincarolina]

Well, that only leaves one more step......cancelling the season. I would imagine two or three weeks into camp we will start to see some positive tests popping up and that will put an end to this once and for all.

On a side note, there are a ton of players out there who will be impacted severely by not having camp. What better year for the NFL to be creative and form a secondary player pool of undrafted, unsigned players that would be in football condition and ready to plug roster gaps due to Covid. There is a TON of money riding on completion of a full season. So an extra player pool of maybe 100 guys at $25,000 guaranteed money with incentives for being picked up by a team seems like a worthy experiment. Of course those guys could get the Rona too.

[Bengals1]

Masks will be required at all NFL games this year....

[https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2 ... is-season/ ]

[Bengals1]

Beavis remains positive....

Goodell-Training camps will open, NFL will play a full season:

[https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2 ... ll-season/]

[stripesincarolina]

Beavis wants you to stand on the train track while he tries to convince you that low rumble and light in the distance shouldnt be a concern.

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2 ... -thus-far/