Grant's Rant: 8-24-21 Covid Insanity In The NFL

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Grant Napear

Football, Sports, Basketball

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🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 2 minutes

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New England QB Cam Newton can't practice with the team until Thursday. He went to a team approved medical appointment outside of the acceptable area as stipulated by the NFL. He has tested negative everyday for Covid, but that's not good enough. How about some common sense? How ridiculous is this? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's time for France, France,
0:03.7	France.
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0:15.0	Well you want to talk about stupidity, lack of common sense, things that just don't add up.
0:21.0	How about Cam Newton, the quarterback for the Patriots, has to stay away from the team until Thursday due to a misunderstanding on COVID-19 test? You want to know what happened? The Patriots approved a medical
0:36.5	appointment that required him to leave the New England region. In other words the area where they practice etc.
0:46.0	He has received daily COVID test.
0:49.0	They have all been negative, but due to a misunderstanding about tests conducted away from NFL facilities, and as required by the NFL and their Players Association, Newton has to deal with a five day entry cadence
1:07.8	process before we can come back to the team. How freaking stupid is that? Seriously, where's the common sense in
1:14.7	all of this? The Patriots set this up, he goes to his appointment, he has
1:19.8	tested negative every single day, but he missed practice yesterday he
1:25.2	misses practice today and he won't be able to practice tomorrow in the first of two
1:30.5	with the New York Giants in Foxboro.
1:34.0	How about that?
1:36.0	But maybe the best part of this story is Devon McCordy,
1:39.0	a longtime captain of the Patriots,
1:41.0	he had filmed a public service announcement about
1:44.2	vaccinations I guess a couple of weeks ago and he said this yesterday quote I
1:49.2	think I've said it to a lot to the guys and the little video me and slate did talking about
1:54.3	Matthew Slater another captain vaccinations is a personal decision that's up to
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