This shouldn’t come as a news flash to anyone, but the NFL didn’t move the Raiders game on Saturday out of safety concerns. They said they did, but they didn’t.
There was a plan in place for exactly the scenario that the Browns were in with COVID-19 and the league abandoned it in the 11th hour.
Now we have a pretty good explanation as to why.
According the a report in The Athletic, the NFL is believed to have moved three games this weekend in exchange for something far more valuable.
“In exchange for moving the games back, league sources expect Tretter and the NFLPA won’t stand in the way of the league stopping all testing of vaccinated and asymptomatic players,” The Athletic’s Vic Tafur reported on Saturday.
“That would ensure the league gets through the 17-game regular season without any more hassle. Which is what this is all about — a league that overlooks the effects of Thursday games and artificial turf on player health isn’t all of a sudden losing sleep over the COVID-19 lists. It just wants to get its games in and keep the television and stadium revenues flowing.”
Since the aforementioned report, the NFL struck a deal with the NFLPA and vaccinated players will no longer be tested for COVID-19 unless they report symptoms.
As has been reported by multiple news outlets this week, the vast majority of players who tested positive in this week’s outbreaks were asymptomatic players who were vaccinated.
Now asymptomatic positive players will be free to practice and play in games. Coronavirus can spread much more easily throughout the league, but the NFL doesn’t care because the virus is no longer a threat to their bank accounts.
No, the NFL wasn’t trying to pick on the Raiders by moving Saturday’s game to Monday. They were simply trying to protect their financial interests.
The NFL couldn’t care less about a virus that isn’t capable of touching their bank accounts. Now that’s exactly what they have.
Another wave of coronavirus is spreading rapidly across the country (and the league has acknowledged the vaccine is less effective against the latest variant), but as far as the NFL is concerned, the pandemic is in the rear view now.
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It doesn’t really matter whether the Raiders got screwed or not.
I really don’t see the Raiders winning any more games this year and that’s good news for their up coming draft spot.
As Far as the Raiders,I really don’t see Carr doing anything cause for so long he does not extend plays and on third downs he just throws it out of bounds.
Since breaking his legs, he knows that if he gets hurt again it would be bye bye !
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very true…
Jerry the Brainless! Carr has led the league in passing most of the year numb nuts! If we had 22 starters with Carr’s ability and attitude, Raiders would be undefeated!
you mean 21 other guys who cant play in the cold or wither like a flower in the redzone ?? carr got a good attitude but his ability on a 100 yd field with endzones doesnt match it.
Lmao Carr is a clutch player and has more come from behind wins than any other QB in the last 8 years. He isn’t the same since his leg was broken, he is much better. Look at the stats, every year he continues to get better and better. Had we not had a **** ton of bad things happened after week 3 who knows what we could have been looking like at this time of the year.
Wow!! That’s some careless bull *#$@ right there. The NFL has finally lost its way. And now its really just about the money. To bad. REALLY TO BAD.
It hasn’t finally lost it’s way, they’ve always been about the money, just not in such a visible way! Everything in the NFL is in the billions of dollars with billionaire owners and millionaire players playing a kids game yes, but for big boy dollars with who has the most dollars and power usually taking it all just like on Wall Street and DC like Pink Floyd famously sung in Money…it’s the root of all evil❗👿🤑💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💸💸💸💸💸💸 Absolute power corrupts absolutely‼️ Yes, really too bad for all involved except those benefitting because it takes away from the game it used to be and now has become a hollow shell of what it once was and similar can be said for other sports too ie. baseball, basketball, Nascar‼️
It’s TOO bad not To bad….
Tell me the NFL is hypocritical without saying it 🤑🤑🤑🤑
Like the fans actually care. The NFL is a monopoly and can crap on fans, and the players without consequences, and people still flock to watch a game that continues to cause brain trauma to its participants. So, until there’s a noticeable drop in the viewing NFL games due to the conduct or misconduct of the NFL League Office, shut up and pass me the remote so I can turn it to NFL Sunday Ticket….
It’s time to Really Boycott the NFL. Seems like we the fans are Always the ones getting screwed. **** their bank accounts. I do formally curse the NFL, Rodger Goddell, and his favored teams.
Come on, do we really think that the Raider team of 2021 deserves to be on Nationwide T.V?
The Cleveland Browns have had a few bad breaks, but they deserve a chance to play in the
playoffs on nationwide T.V. I am sorry but the Raiders have quit.
I have learned so much about the Raiders and the NFL in the last week, it’s heartbreaking. I’m not surprised by the NFL’s greed, it’s corporate greed, and it’s rampant throughout history. If this is the message the NFL is sending the fanbase, “F” the virus, get back to work, then the small chance we had of controlling it is gone. Who cares about the score of any games, this is our day to day lives. Children, school, masks, vaccines, traveling, inflation, all that crap we are sick of hearing about, and we just want to enjoy our NFL Sundays. Priorities reversed?
This Raider season is going to be remembered as the worst for many reasons, some of which was not in their control. The Ruggs disaster, especially, could have happened anywhere. I’m actually surprised it doesn’t happen more frequently with the status and money we afford these athletes.
Jon Gruden, the NFL once again, managed this story to their financial best interest. Obviously, they sat on the story. If it concerned them, why didn’t they make Mr. Davis aware when he planned to hire him? Or why put the man on center stage of one of their most viewed programs, “Hard Knocks”? However, Gruden’s been around this organization for 7 or 8 years, and no one picked up on this attitude?
Once again, a collapse after the bye-week. Derek Carr and his inability to be a play-maker in the red-zone, inept play calling from the sideline, a suspect defense that is on the field too often. And yet, there is the man responsible for it all, grinning ear to ear, like a Cheshire cat, celebrating the financial windfall of hosting a Superbowl. Finally, that glorious moment we Raider fans have long awaited! A championship game on our field! I can’t wait to see Chiefs & 49ers battling it out under Al’s eternal flame, while Junior’s partying with all his billionaire pals.
So many factors in what’s wrong with my silver and black right now. I agree with you man and the apple has fallen way far from the tree with Mark. He’s an absolute joke and so is the NFL and the way these few elite owners control everything. Roger is just a puppet.
The NFL heads should be arrested and charged, just as our poor excuse for government leaders who continue to make poor decisions with all of our lives. Greedy people making decisions that benefit them and only them.
The NFL has been screwing our Raiders for years it’s time for other Raider fans like me to start speaking out about it!
Amen brother. The Tuck Rule Game was the most blatant example! Screw Goodell and the rest of the NFL!
Are you kidding me?!?!?!?!?!? Anything to make that money and **** everyone else right???
Who cares if we start a whole new pandemic
You’re focusing on the wrong thing… you said, “Now asymptomatic positive players will be free to practice and play in games. Coronavirus can spread much more easily throughout the league, but the NFL doesn’t care because the virus is no longer a threat to their bank accounts.”
What you should have said is that this is just more evidence that the covid panic has all been bulls#!t this whole time.
Also Omicron is a far lesser threat than any of the previous variants. The Spanish Flu was a deadly threat and eventually mutated down to basically a cold. Omicron seems to be moving along the same pattern and yet you insist on using it to go after the NFL for the wrong reasons.
You should be after them for attacking people for crap that happened in their personal lives 10 years ago when they weren’t even NFL employees at the time and purposely leaking information to major news sources. You should be after them for following the narrative with covid in the first place. Attacking Aaron Rodgers for a legitimate reason for not getting vaccinated. There are many things you should attack the NFL for… continuing to feed senseless panic is not one of them.
I agree with Jon, I have been a member of a small group of the outraged that kept getting bigger and kept at it and kept swinging and after much sacrifice, some of us going to jail and bearing a criminal record for our civil disobedience, we persevered. We made the world a better place. The billionaires have to start over and play by our rules until that circle starts again. “Let’s Go, Goodell, and take the NFL with you”, has a great ring to it. Go ahead; print THAT. I DARE you.
If we’d only empty all stadiums and just watch on television that would really put a dent in their pockets and maybe they’d appreciate the fans a lot more! Giants offered a F’EN medium drink for their Cowgirls game, to get more season ticket holders to attend. Big F’EN WOW!
**** Goddell go to hell been screaming raiders forever straight hater carr not the problem like was said already if others gave effort like him would be unbeatable and play calling wow coaching not carr. Idiots drunk driving or playing gangster on the worlds biggest problem the internet idiot and then having to play 3 teams a week the team the refs and the nfl pretty tough. **** the 9ers the chiefs and Goddel and his boyfriend Brady they can all suck it RAIDER NATION FOREVER F THE REST QUIT HATING.
I’m not surprised by the way the NFL (not for long) has handed these fame day changes. Because we all know it is all about the 💰 money it has been and will always be the GREED factor. The RICH owners just keep getting more rich with now regard for the players or fans.