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The MMQB NFL Podcast

The NFL's Busy Sunday & Playoff Musical Chairs | Weak-Side Podcast

The MMQB NFL Podcast

SI NFL

Sports, Football

4896 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the Weak-Side Podcast, Conor and Jenny discuss the cluster of false positive tests that popped up on Sunday in the NFL and respond to reader mail, including a question from Australia about who will drop out of last year's playoff field.

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0:00.0

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0:32.1

Hello and welcome back to the Weekside Podcast. I'm Jenny Wrentiss here with

0:36.2

Connor Orr on this Monday in August. It was an interesting weekend for the

0:41.6

NFL regarding COVID testing. There was a spate of

0:46.0

false positives that were traced to a lab in New Jersey making for an unusual Sunday. There were practices delayed. Players who were not

0:57.0

practicing notably Bill's quarterback Josh Allen and it was kind of a reminder that this year there's going to be some stops and starts,

1:07.0

different circumstances that come up.

1:09.0

We've had false positives before Connor,

1:11.0

but this was the first example of there being a cluster of them,

1:15.7

traced to kind of a contamination in the testing.

1:19.4

And as the situation that happened with Matthew Stafford,

1:24.0

which was just an isolated false positive test,

1:27.0

certainly this will prompt a conversation,

1:29.6

potential additional protocols added to respond to situations like this come up again.

1:36.7

What were your thoughts?

1:37.7

I like how the New Jersey got called out in specific so we got bang down here but it's like that ominous like it all

1:45.2

started in a lab in New Jersey it's like a very it's like a very ominous sort of

1:49.4

thing right there you know but I yeah I mean this is going to be the tenor of our regular season right we are not

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