Is the NFL being tone-deaf on COVID-19, plus AFC & NFC West team needs

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🗓️ 2 April 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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As sports leagues around the world have cancelled or postponed events due to COVID-19, the NFL, partly aided by cover of their offseason, have remained steadfast in making sure their season goes according to schedule. Charles Robinson & Terez Paylor open this week's podcast discussing the league revealing via conference call that they plan to start the season on time in September and have no contingency plans for moving international games, or even delaying or cancelling the season. They ask: has the NFL's response to the Coronavirus been tone-deaf? (3:30)In other league-wide news, the league officially announced the long-expected changes to the playoff rules. Now one extra team from each conference will make the playoffs and we'll get a whopping 6 games that first weekend of January. What wasn't expected? League partner CBS announcing their extra playoff game will be simulcast on Nickelodeon. Is America ready for some green-slime on wild card weekend? (15:00)In the second half of the show, Charles & Terez begin their division-by-division team needs preview leading up to the NFL draft. They start with the two divisions represented in the Super Bowl, the AFC & NFC West:Can the Broncos, Chargers and Raiders stockpile their rosters to beat the Chiefs? (38:25)In a quarterback-strong division, what have the 49ers, Cardinals, Rams and Seahawks done to fix the other holes on their rosters? (49:10)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, welcome to to the Yahoo Sports NFL Podcast. I'm Yahoo Senior
0:15.6	NFL writer Terres Payler. Here are my main man, a fellow senior
0:19.0	NFL writer Charles Robinson and Charles Michael Jordan won E.S. P.N's college basketball's greatest of all time bracket.
0:27.7	It came down to him and Larry Bird.
0:30.3	My man, are you buying or selling?
0:33.0	This was presented by Capital One, and I'm just telling you,
0:37.0	I would cut up all my Capital One credit cards.
0:40.0	I would take all my money out of the Capital One bank accounts. I would short their stock. That's how
0:46.0	bad this is. I was lit when I saw this. I'm like, what hell is wrong and I say this wearing a
0:54.3	Pistons hat I respect him as the greatest
0:57.4	NBA player of all time but if you voted for Michael Jordan over Lou El Sindor or any number of players by the way
1:06.4	Lou El Sindor 88 and 2 for a UCLA one of the most iconic periods of college basketball dominance in history,
1:17.2	not only did you go 88 and 2, you didn't play as a freshman and you whooped the ass of the
1:21.8	defending national champion varsity team when you were a freshman at
1:26.0	UCLA who could not play varsity and they banned the dunk in college basketball because of you.
1:35.0	Come on man, come on.
1:37.0	Lou Elsinder is getting screwed hard here, dude.
1:40.0	Like that was actually the guy.
1:41.0	It's like, anytime you win the Naismith Player of the Year Award, like twice,
1:48.0	that's crazy.
1:49.5	Like he did it twice and was the three-time All-American also led his team to three championships.
1:55.0	Three titles in the three years he played.
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