Week 5: COVID-19 concerns across NFL, Browns-Colts preview and the decision to bench Dwayne Haskins
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🗓️ 8 October 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
COVID-19 cases are on the rise throughout the NFL and as the story continues to develop The Athletic’s Robert Mays and Lindsay Jones bring you the latest on the situations with the Patriots and Titans.
Later in the show, they discuss this week’s matchup between the Browns and Colts as well as a big test for Joe Burrow against the Ravens' defense.
Plus, Rhiannon Walker joins the show to talk about Washington’s decision to bench Dwayne Haskins.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:15.5 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:17.7 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:18.7 | Could do the Thursday show a little bit differently this week. |
| 0:21.0 | The athletics, Rianne and Walker, is going to be joining us a little bit later to talk about Washington football team's decision to bench Twain Haskins. But before we talk to Riannon, Lindsay Jones is here to do our normal Thursday breakdowns. Lindsay, how are you? I'm good. It's unfortunately becoming our Thursday COVID show, but here's where we are in the |
| 0:39.5 | NFL, where COVID is the dominating storyline of not just this week, but apparently every week. |
| 0:46.0 | You know what? They did us a service this week by having all the news come out on a Wednesday instead of |
| 0:50.3 | Tuesday. So at least the timing worked out where people are going to be getting this in a fairly quick manner. So where do you want to start? I mean, obviously the news is just |
| 0:59.4 | never ending. This morning I woke up. Stefan Gilmore tested positive for COVID. And then it was |
| 1:05.0 | the Titans players had another positive test. And then it was the Titans players were working out |
| 1:09.5 | together last week. It just feels like you're getting bludgeoned over the head every single, like every 15 minutes or so by something else. So what do you think is the most important bit of news that came out today if we're trying to sift through all of this? Yeah. I mean, there's there's two, right? There's two big elements and you already addressed them. And they're they're separate, right? It's what's going on with the Patriots right now and that it's |
| 1:30.4 | Stefan Gilmore, the reigning defensive player of the year, their best defensive player, maybe |
| 1:35.6 | their best player on their team is now on the COVID-19 list along with Cam Newton, who is arguably |
| 1:41.4 | the other most important and best player on their team. |
| 1:45.1 | And Gilmore's positive test, this was from the test that he took Tuesday morning after |
| 1:50.7 | playing Monday night. |
| 1:52.1 | He was on the list of players who are people, not just players, but of people who were |
| 1:57.0 | determined to be close contacts of Cam Newton when Cam Newton first tested positive. |
| 2:01.6 | So this was the risk that the NFL was taking by playing that game on Monday night, |
| 2:06.2 | by allowing the Patriots to fly to Foxborough or fly from Foxborough to Kansas City, |
| 2:11.8 | even though they did it on two separate planes. |
| 2:13.4 | They put the close contacts of one plane, everybody else on another plane. |
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