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Week 12 GDT - Saints at Broncos


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16 minutes ago, AnAngryAmerican said:

Klis is saying the team sent footage from the meeting in question to the league for review and the video does show the QBs wearing masks and distancing and all that. I know for a fact Klis got that from the team while Schefter’s sources almost certainly have to be someone in the league office in New York. 

Sources said the issues were the three quarterbacks involved the COVID protocols of mask wearing, social distancing and contact tracers at the time of their close contact with Driskel. Specifically, it dealt with the quarterbacks meeting room that is in the Pat Bowlen Fieldhouse. The room is quite large -- 9News used it as a studio for several weeks this year and in 2018 it held the Case Keenum and draft pick introductory press conferences.

Per source, the Broncos sent several hours of surveillance tape from the QB meeting room, along with contact tracing data and interviews to the league on Friday morning. According to the source, while the quarterbacks weren't textbook in following the COVID protocols, the video sent to the league shows them wearing masks for extensive periods, distancing and in possession of tracers.

https://www.9news.com/mobile/article/sports/nfl/denver-broncos/mike-klis/nfl-pulls-broncos-quarterbacks-lock-rypien-bortles-off-practice-field-because-of-covid-contact-concerns/73-e2f812fb-5d1e-4a50-8ca6-780f51df0c41

While the team was in some sort of violation of the rules, the problem with this is that they’re picking favorites; other teams have made mistakes and had their games rescheduled but we haven’t. This is something that wouldn’t happen if we had a real owner who had respect of the powers that be in NY. 

Once the season is over in January, one of two things needs to happen ASAP - sell the team and give each of the Bowlen kids a cut or just hand the keys to Brittany. Enough already with Ellis and the trust trying to move at a snails pace and line their pockets. 

Except that the FO hasn’t made that case publicly to the league / media appealing it.  On behalf of the team.   Only from a Klis article.  The league also didn’t find out until Saturday.
 

The obvious explanation with those 2 points - the players didn’t mask for part of the meeting.   The video probably is why the league ok’d the practice.    More info came on Sat with contact tracing where it was disclosed players didn’t mask.  Deeper dives and interviews are a normal part of contact tracing.   It’s likely then where the breach in mask wearing was disclosed.  

If Den players masked completely and didn’t have meetings without masks during the exposure window - Elway & co. would be appealing this and making this public and official to the league.   No way around it.   If they stand up officially I believe them.  Until they do - this is a Klis apologist post for the FO given the ****storm the org is rightfully getting.   Especially since Fangio already broke the rules and was penalized.  

I get the FO needs to spin this.   But until they are willing to state for the record there weren’t violations that occurred that merited being on the Covid-19 list - they have zero credibility.  
 

 

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4 hours ago, thebestever6 said:

This Hinton has some talent man it's crazy how he was in line to be the starter and got suspended three games his sophomore year completely changed the trajectory of his career.

Also was watching interviews with him he seems to have so poised and moxy. Odds are we're screwedddd but I at least will watch now.

In all likelihood he’s going to be Nathan Peterman level bad, however, I’ll be watching to see if he channels his Rocky Balboa and goes from nobody to somebody. 

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