The NFL is threatening forfeits for COVID-19 protocol breaches; Fox Sports' Mike Pereira joins 'Fox & Friends' with insight.
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Live from studio J top of the
hour
Brian, the NFL, laying out new
Covid 19 protocols in a league
wide conference call that
took place yesterday in a memo
sent to teams afterwards, the
commissioner wrote this
violations will result
additional financial and
competitive discipline, including
the adjustment of loss of draft
choices or even forfeit. The
game
simply put compliance is
mandatory.
Why?
Because twenty titans tested,
positive and other teams have
been forced to postpone here to
discuss is Fox sports, NFL
analyst rules, expert and the
former vice president
officiating from the NFL Mike C
Arerra
MIKE Good, to see you again is
the commissioner over the top of
this, or is this necessary to
come down like this?
Well, I think its necessary,
based on what has happened with
Tennessee and also what you have
seen and the fines that were
given out to some of the coaches
and some of the teams.
Look, this isnt similar to
baseball
now baseball and football is
the only ones the major sports
not in a bubble, but in football
youre talking about only sixteen
games and in baseball yeah
winning percentages. Maybe you
could figure that out to see who
goes to the playoffs. Sixty games is
different than sixteen, so the league
has had to get tough and I think
that they have done a great job,
theyve laid out protocol, so
they showed meant business when
they fined those coaches,
one hundred thousand dollars and the teams two hundred and fifty thousand
so really. The meeting
yesterday was kind of like a
tongue lashing to say so, youre,
not surprised if this happens
again and we uncover situations
where you didnt follow Protocol
S expect suspension,
maybe forfeitures those really
severe fines, including draft
choices. So I think the league
has done a great job so far
trying to control the situation
with thirty two teams and all those
players and coaches and
theyre just saying now we mean
business
Brian, daily testing, as well
as tracers, to find out
where youve been so they find
out in case you test positive
who to get in touch with
the NFL Covid rules. They have
new rules now on free agency and
things like that. Free agent try
outs per week, ban gatherings
outside the club, implement
video monitoring system to
ensure compliance, or else they
go in a bubble and stay in a
hotel
Thursday night football comes
back to Fox. You picked a really
good game to come back to you
pick and choose MIKE. Only the
good ones so Tampa Tampa Bay
plays Chicago that guy named Tom
Brady on a bit of a role after
losing his opener. What can we
expect at 820 eastern time and
all of the coverage starts at 7?
Thirty with the pre game.
I think its great. This is
Tom, Bradys First National
broadcast, you know as a Tampa
Bay, buccaneer
look I enjoy a guy. My age
enjoys seeing a quarterback
whose ten years older than any
player on the Chicago bears, you
know attempting throw five more
touchdown passes to five
different receivers as he did
last week. So I think that its
really a great game for Thursday
Night Football and the Chicago
bears are now three and one were not
sure it hasnt been determined
for sure is the Mick of Mitch T
Urbitsky, but I think
its going to be a very
competitive game and Tom Brady
at forty two years old continues to be
the story and after that opens
loss to New Orleans and what he
has accomplished since then kind
of gets him involve and getting
Intune after getting kind of his
butt ripped after week. One you
know he has responded as a
young guy, a young rookie would
so to me. This is just a
terrific matchup and its so
great to have Thursday night
football back on Fox
Brian. All right MIKE you
handled the plug you handled
the broadcast and the analysis
I didnt have to come to work
today.
Im not going to get paid for.
Transcript generated on 2020-10-17.