Is NFL unfairly punishing teams over covid protocols?

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

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🗓️ 30 November 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘fire drill’ as in it’s time to get moving as in panic as in the Baltimore Ravens are scurrying around trying to figure out what in the world went wrong inside the lockeroom. It all started with a strength coach breaking protocols, which led to an outbreak, which led to 20 players testing positive, which led to the NFL moving the game from Thursday to Sunday to now Tuesday. Why is the NFL trying so hard to get this game played against the Pittsburgh Steelers (0:06)? So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me why the NFL forced the Denver Broncos play with a QB who wasn’t a QB, but had to play QB. Well… I have some thoughts on this (11:28). Review - The Undoing (24:40). What are the San Francisco 49ers going to do for the next three weeks? The team was told by the Santa Clara County that no more sports are to be played because of the rise of covid numbers and the 49ers are upset. Boohoo (30:15)! Let’s get to some MLB news about free agency. The report is that the Philadelphia Phillies lost $145M this past season. How could this be? Will this impact the team’s offseason (36:00)? #waittosee -------------------------- 'Nothing Personal with David Samson' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Bullhorn and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Follow David on Twitter: @DavidPSamson To watch David on CBS Sports HQ visit https://www.cbssports.com/live/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ https://www.youtube.com/nothingpersonalwithdavidsamson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Fire drill. Nothing personal. We're the day the last day of November. One more month of
0:13.7	this dumpster of fire of a year. It's all we have left is December. November 30th, we're
0:19.2	the day is fire drill. Fire drill, you know, when you're in school and they do fire drills
0:22.8	and the bell goes off and you have to partner up with a buddy and they do account and you
0:28.8	walk out of the building and then your teachers say to you, all right, this is what we would do
0:33.8	in case of a fire. I always enjoyed the fire drills because I always pictured what would it
0:39.2	actually be like if there were a fire? It's sort of like when you're on an airplane and you land
0:45.2	in the water like sunny and you practice what you would do. You look for the exit lights. You
0:51.3	crawl if you can't see him. You take off your shoes. You leave your carry-ons and you nicely
0:56.9	slide down the slide into the water. Fire is burning in your school. Yeah, just we're gonna
1:03.8	orderly. Everybody orderly step out of the school. So my brain always in elementary school would
1:11.3	just say, all right, if there were a fire, here's the exit. Here's the three friends I have. I'm
1:18.0	gonna motion to them that let's go. I'm not gonna pull a Titanic. You know, ladies, ladies first,
1:24.0	ladies first, ladies first, and so she was. No, I'm getting the hell out of there.
1:30.4	The Ravens are in the middle of a fire drill right now, but it's not a fire, fire drill.
1:34.3	I could think of a word. I was thinking with Coco before the show, hey, we've been away for a few
1:38.7	days. Let's start right out with COVID drill. Let's make up a word, do something related to Thanksgiving
1:45.1	or COVID. But really, we decided that what the Ravens are going through is really a modern day,
1:51.6	national football league generated every man for himself, fire drill. The Ravens have
2:00.3	approximately 20 people on their COVID reserve list. They have had a positive test for COVID
2:08.0	every day for eight straight days through yesterday through Sunday, November 29th.
2:14.0	The Ravens are scheduled to play the Steelers tomorrow, December 1st, the undefeated Steelers.
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