The unseen obstacles of NFL's reopening with Judy Battista of NFL Network

Tom Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast

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Tom E. Curran, Mike Vrabel, Afc, 2024 Nfl Draft, Football, Afc East, New England Patriots, Nfl, News, Sports News, Jerod Mayo, Phil Perry, Sports, Drake Maye, Patriots Nation, Ja'lynn Polk

4.8 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Tom Curran breaks down the failing grade he gave to the Patriots for their offseason before being joined by NFL Network's Judy Battista. The two discuss how the league will deal with the early stages of a reopen, the possible inequities that teams may face and how the season schedule could be impacted. 1:13 - Tom explains why he gave the Patriots an 'F' for their offseason grade. 9:16 - Judy Battista of the NFL Network and NFL.com jumps on to discuss the details of the NFL's first steps for a reopen. How will teams operate their facilities and deal with staff and media? 20:06 - Tom and Judy discuss how certain teams could be at a disadvantage because of their geography and how hard their region was hit by COVID-19. 25:22 - How will the NFL's reopening procedures compare to those of different major sports leagues? 31:31 - Finally, Tom and Judy talk about how the season schedule could be impacted and what the league is prepared to do to avoid delays.

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up everybody? Welcome with the Tom Courants, Patriots Talk podcast. I am Tom
0:18.3	Currence. I'm in the right place. You're in the right place too for a ton of insight and information that I hope you find useful today's podcast. I'm going to
0:27.6	get into a little bit about why it was such a hard grader from Patriots in my offseason grades.
0:32.9	Next up in the meat of this pod will be Judy Batista from NFL Network. She will join us to talk about the reopening phase one, which is going on around the NFL
0:41.5	today, but not here in New England, which will begin next week when the Patriots are able
0:46.1	to reopen. Just crack the door a little bit. So all that. And really not that much more
0:52.1	on Tom Caron's Patriots Talk Podcast.
0:55.8	All right, let's dive right in to win.
0:59.0	All right, let's dive right into Professor Carmen's grades.
1:16.3	Now, I did grades for the entire NFL.
1:20.1	There's a couple of reasons for that.
1:21.2	One, there's not shit going on right now.
1:23.7	You know it, I know it.
1:25.1	So we've got to keep coming up with content.
1:26.7	But this ain't straight
1:28.0	clickbait stuff, fellas. This ain't straight buzzfeed. This ain't straight just trying to just clickbait
1:33.5	you guys into a million clicks on a 41 sheet gallery. Yeah, maybe sometimes we don't mind if you do that.
1:39.0	I've never hated galleries. I actually like the drama of knowing what the next slide is, saying, what's it going to be?
1:44.3	What's it going to be? Who's the toughest guy? Whoever played in Major League Baseball? It's Oscar Gamble?
1:50.2	I didn't think that. Hmm. I wonder what he did. So I enjoy that type of thing. However,
1:55.1	some people don't. Be that as it may, if you didn't go through the gallery on NBCSportsBoston.com,
2:02.4	you didn't notice that the grade that I gave the Patriots was a failing one, an F.
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