The NFL released a plan for teams to reopen their facilities May 19. Several stipulations are involved, but if certain conditions are met and the respective teams’ states are not under any lockdown measures, select personnel may return to clubs’ facilities, the league announced.
One of the stipulations: players and coaches remain barred from team facilities. The NFL released a memo earlier this week extending the virtual offseason through the end of May. This latest memo indicates teams’ front office staffers, medical personnel and select others can report as soon as Tuesday.
Coaches are not allowed to return to team headquarters because of an NFL fair-play effort, thus minimizing the impact of Friday’s announcement. Many teams are located in states where COVID-19 lockdown measures remain. Several are discussing out-of-state training camps. It is not expected players will be back on site until training camp. Players undergoing medical treatment are permitted to be at team sites, however.
No team can exceed 75 staffers at facilities. If teams conduct on-site work at separate locations, Friday’s new guidelines will still cap the total number of staffers at 75.
if no players, coaches then what’s the point?
no kidding!
Well injured players can be the which means team doctors and trainers. Also the front office can be there start figuring out how they are going to do things and it would probably make signing players easier having a central location to work from.
I dunno. If nothing else, all this has proven that we can find a way to adapt. If they can run the entire draft in a virtual manner, then the things you listed can be done virtually as well. Saying that a facility is open and then banning the people the facility was essentially designed for seems like little more than foolishness.
So online medical treatment. Sure!
Obviously, these guys are getting medical treatment now with the facilities closed. Don’t act like a doofus.
So now I’m a doofus thanks.
Will Robert Kraft be overseeing the “fair-play” effort?