Week 10 Preview: Imagining a 16-team playoffs, Todd Haley storytime & more

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🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

The 2020 NFL regular season is just over halfway done, and despite ballooning COVID cases both in the league and nationally, it appears as if we'll get something resembling a complete season. Terez Paylor & Charles Robinson open their mid-week podcast discussing the recently agreed-upon plans from the NFL's owners to institute a 16-team playoff field in the case that regular season games are cancelled. Would Kansas City/Miami be of interest to anyone? Or what about New Orleans/Arizona? Our hosts break down the two conference playoff seedings as they stand today while the league still combats the coronavirus and even stars like Aaron Rodgers question the NFL's safety protocols.Later in the show, Terez & Charles discuss the NFL owners also voting to amend the Rooney Rule in order to award compensatory draft picks to franchises whose lower-level minority coaches and executives get hired to head coach and GM positions. They also chat about Raheem Morris' stint as interim head coach of the Atlanta Falcons and whether owner Arthur Blank could hire him to the role in a more official sense this offseason. (20:50)Closing out the episode, the guys open up the reader mailbag and share some stories about Todd Haley (after Matt Cassel told quite a story of his own on NBC Sports Boston) and try to determine which team in the horrid NFC East has the best chance of reversing their fortunes in the long-run. (37:25)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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0:14.0	Yes, sir, yes sir. Welcome to the Yahoo Sports NFL Podcast. I'm Yahoo Senior NFL writer Torres-Paylor.
0:16.0	Here my main man and fellow senior NFL writer Charles Robinson and Charles.
0:20.0	Are you excited for just a typical mid-November weekend of Crispair, apple picking, leaf changing colors and the masters? How you feeling brother?
0:29.0	You know, kind of optimistic about some normalcy here. You know we're getting
0:36.3	Interesting sort of indications about a vaccine being on the way supposedly you know, golf, the Masters, the NFL season is, we're now past the midway point and the
0:49.6	NFL is very confident, it seems, about completing a full getting a full
0:56.4	Semi-normal season in the books now which you and I said at the beginning of all this like if they this off, if they pull off 17 weeks of play and a
1:06.2	playoff and a super, it's amazing and they seem to feel like they're going to be able to do
1:09.3	it and they've even kind of tried to insulate that a little bit by saying, hey, worst case scenario, because everything's
1:14.1	mushrooming again wants to give coronavirus across the country.
1:17.0	We're having a little bit of an uptick,
1:18.8	just like the country's having an uptick.
1:20.8	And so if the worst case scenario happens, we're now prepared for it. I feel like the
1:24.8	NFL now feels like we're gonna get this done. We've made it to the point of we're
1:28.8	getting it done. And you know what I feel like if we can get some of this normalcy back as it relates to the vaccine
1:35.3	as it relates to the NFL you know I'm ready for a higher love I'm ready for it so yeah you know I
1:41.6	think it's kind of cool just to talk about, honestly, just to, it's kind of cool just to be able to talk about this vote that the league had on the 16 team playoff plan because this was a this is something that we didn't even know
1:57.5	They didn't even know if they'd even have a chance to put in a place three months ago. We had no idea how this season was going to go and now look at us. Here we are.
2:06.7	Yesterday, NFL owners unanimously approved the plan to expand the post season of 16 teams if a COVID-19 outbreak forces the
2:16.2	regular season to be shortened. This will include eight teams in each
2:19.4	conference making the post-season in the event not all 32 teams can play all 16 games so
2:25.7	that the league wants to avoid this but one thing to remember here is still not
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