How are NFL teams going to avoid a Marlins-like catastrophe?

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🗓️ 29 July 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Pessimism surrounding the upcoming NFL season hit new levels on Monday morning after MLB's opening weekend fell flat on its face. After reports that at least 14 players on the Miami Marlins had tested positive for coronavirus and a slew of games were cancelled, anyone with an interest in sports wondered how the NFL could realistically and safely pull off a season after such a quick blunder in baseball.Terez Paylor & Charles Robinson open the podcast on this startling turn of events. Charles details why the NFL will be much better prepared to test and quarantine its players than Major League Baseball and Terez plays a little devil's advocate and wonders if competitiveness will be the sport's achilles heel. (3:00)They also discuss the myriad players who have announced they will opt out of the 2020 season including a handful of defenders on the New England Patriots and the newly acquired WR Devin Funchess of the Green Bay Packers. (28:15)Taking a step back to the weekend, the guys recap the trade between the New York Jets and Seattle Seahawks which sent star safety Jamal Adams to the pacific northwest for a pair of first round picks. Was this a good deal for both sides? (36:45)Stay up to date with the latest NFL news and coverage from Yahoo Sports on Twitter @YahooSportsNFL.Follow Charles @CharlesRobinsonFollow Terez @TerezPaylorTag your questions for the guys on Twitter with #YahooNFLPodcastCheck out the rest of the Yahoo Sports Podcast family at https://apple.co/2Abi8jk or at yahoosports.com/podcasts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	Yes, sir, yes sir. Welcome to the Yahoo Sports NFL
0:13.4	podcast. I'm Yahoo Senior and I'm
0:15.0	United I'm Yahoo Senior NFL writer Terres Payler.
0:16.7	Here my main man and fellow senior NFL writer Charles Robinson.
0:20.0	And Charles, my man, are you following the latest trend?
0:23.0	Are you following the wave?
0:24.8	Will you be opting out for the 2020 NFL season?
0:27.8	Can we like opt out of 2020 altogether?
0:31.3	Is my question?
0:32.3	Is there a way to go back to the beginning of
0:34.5	2020 and have opted out, like take the big NyQuil nap for like is there like a
0:40.9	NyQuil for a year that can just wake me up in 2021.
0:45.0	One year hibernation.
0:47.0	Exactly.
0:48.0	Go to sleep on December 31st 2019
0:52.0	and wake up on December 31st 2020. Like here he go. There's no way unless this
0:58.8	is the greatest NFL season ever for me to go, yeah, I really couldn't have done without 2020. I needed that year.
1:06.0	No, I maybe, but you know what? Maybe, maybe this will be the saving grace for all of us.
1:12.0	Maybe the remaining months are going to be fantastic.
1:16.7	Although I did catch the news, did you see that two young women, I think it was in India, discovered an asteroid.
1:27.0	An asteroid is directly in the path of Earth, however, it's like a million, it's like a million years away, which I'm just like somebody, somebody on Twitter is a great tweet.
1:39.0	I saw it and I retweeted and I said, we're officially on the clock and someone replied oh so does this mean that
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