All right guys episode two this week of the Weekside Podcast alongside Jenny Frentiss.

I'm Conoror and we're in the middle of just a fascinating time I think in sports in our country's history and our world's

history from an NFL perspective this week a wave of high profile opt-outs have begun starting with

Laurent duverne Tardif I'm pronouncing there I've never had to say that name

out loud actually like I've just think that sounds pretty spot on.

It's the chief guy who's the doctor right but like you know he was really the first big

one that we had heard about Patrick Chung, Michael Pierce.

You know, there's a lot of guys now that are announcing

either because they have a medical issue

or because they're just legitimately spooked

by this virus, as a lot of us are that they won't be

playing this season and my take off the top Jenny is that this is absolutely none of

our business it's a hundred percent none of business. This is we've grown so accustomed to being able to weigh in on everything in our athletes lives because of social media. We weigh in on their politics, we weigh in on their, the photos of the birth of their

kids like we're in their families.

This is where the comfort level ends.

If someone wants to opt out of the season because they're afraid of coronavirus good for them that's it that is a noble choice at best and at worst it is absolutely none of our business

Yeah, I'm glad that players have this option, that they have a union to represent them, and that they have a, you know, a potential way to sit out the season, receive it either $150,000 stipend, or a $350,000 if you're high risk and that they have a route to choosing to

forego the season whether it's just a personal choice or a medical reason or whatever the case may be. I mean I think it's it's important

that players have a choice and I think that's the what we're discussing with college

and a different way is you know the college players don't have a union don't have an

option that way so I was you know I thought it was great that players were

exercising that choice and that they were choosing to put their health ahead of football.

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