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Originally Posted by Red Slinger
I don't understand why they didn't postpone the Broncos/NO game considering the circumstances. There have been a few games postponed under similar or even lesser circumstances. I can't imagine that NFC teams competing with NO were very happy about this either.
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It was discussed earlier in this thread, but one QB tested positive and had close contact with all 3 other QBs (incl practice squad QB) with all maskless. Those players and the team then were uncooperative with the league's contact tracers and investigators (obviously trying to avoid them finding out exactly what happened). The latter is what sealed the deal for the league not giving them a postponement (they officially claim its because 1 positive is not an outbreak, but they've postponed for less IIRC) as unofficial punishment for the uncooperative actions and stonewalling.
And all this shook down too close to gameday for them to sign any replacements with the 6 day isolation period for any new joiners before they can practice/play w/ team.