Week 4 Preview: Titans' COVID-19 scare & what's wrong with Wentz?

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🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

It never seemed like a matter of if, but only when. When would the NFL have to face its first major COVID outbreak? The answer came after Week 3 when it was reported that initially three, and now four players and five additional personnel on the Tennessee Titans tested positive for the novel coronavirus after playing a game Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings.How did this happen? What steps did the league take when a Titans coach first tested positive on Saturday and what steps could’ve been taken? How will this affect the Titans-Steelers matchup that has been postponed until at least Monday? Terez Paylor & Charles Robinson break down the entire situation developing in Tennessee and the implications on the rest of the season.Next, they recap the 34-20 strong-arming the Kansas City Chiefs put on the Baltimore Ravens on Monday night. What do the Ravens need to do if they see Patrick Mahomes again in the playoffs? (18:30)After the Philadelphia Eagles’ winless start, you know the sky is falling in the City of Brotherly Love. The guys try to figure out what is wrong with Carson Wentz and propose a few options for how the Eagles should handle the rest of their season. (29:05)After the Houston Texans worked out, but declined to sign former Ravens and Seahawks safety Earl Thomas, Charles talks through the multi-year depreciation of the all-pro’s legacy around the league and why very few teams are interesting in signing the former pro-bowler. (37:00)Finally, the guys close out the show previewing two Week 4 matchups:Someone’s got to get a win as the Minnesota Vikings travel to the Houston Texans (or maybe not, as we saw last week in the Cincinnati-Philadelphia tie). If the Vikings can’t get a W here, should they blow the whole thing up? (44:20)The 2-1 Cleveland Browns are heading to Dallas to see if they can keep their strong start going against the 1-2 Dallas Cowboys. Though the Cowboys have been dreadful defending the pass all season, the guys explain that Cleveland should do what they do best: run the ball with Nick Chubb & Kareem Hunt. (53:30)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, yes sir. Welcome to the Yahoo Sports NFL Podcast. I'm Yahoo Senior
0:15.2	I'm a fellow senior NFL writer Terres Payler.
0:16.8	Here are my main man, a fellow senior NFL writer Charles Robinson.
0:20.1	And Charles, between the big touchdowns and highlight real catches,
0:24.0	not to mention regular updates from the NFL with numbers about how well its COVID-19 testing was going.
0:31.0	I guess it was easy to lose touch with reality a little bit, wasn't it?
0:34.4	Yeah, we're brought back pretty quickly on this one. Like that scenario, we were like,
0:40.9	is this ever going to happen? Is there going to be an outbreak? Not only does it happen, but as I ended up writing today, this is really kind of exposed the big flaw, like the one big flaw in testing that, is what the incubation period.
0:55.7	It's always gonna be if someone tested positive on a Saturday
0:59.4	the NFL was going to have the complication of the reality that incubation periods do exist and just because as their own medical doctor said two weeks ago
1:09.9	Just because someone tests negative does not mean they do not carry the virus into the facility or game or whatever and so here we are.
1:19.7	On Tuesday morning, eight members of the Titans organization tested positive for COVID-19,
1:25.5	meaning the team they narrowly beat Sunday, the Minnesota Vikings may have been exposed to it.
1:31.2	This morning, Wednesday morning, we got word that the Tennessee Titans had one more additional
1:37.5	positive test and there's currently zero for Minnesota, so that's good news.
1:42.1	People in the league were happy about this yeah
1:44.1	but what did you just say Charles incubation period? Incubation period could
1:50.7	could widen this and here let me throw something at it and this I think might
1:55.1	low-key become a little bit of a story. There is a very prominent question that
2:01.4	needs to be asked of the Minnesota Vikings, and that is this.
2:04.9	Were you ever told by the Tennessee Titans or the NFL that hey, they had a coach test positive on Saturday but because here's the thing the Vikings know just like every other team about the incubation potential right that hey there could be people who are walking around with it you know because it's incubating
2:24.7	were you ever told by the Tennessee Titans or the NFL about the incubation period and the reason
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