The NFL implemented a new set of COVID-19 protocols Monday in response to one team outbreak and a series of other positive tests that forced multiple changes to the Week 4 game schedule.
In a memo released after a call with officials of every team, commissioner Roger Goodell called on clubs to "recommit ourselves to our protocols and best practices for the duration of the season."
Moving forward, Goodell wrote, the league will issue discipline that could include loss of draft choices or forfeit of a game if protocol violations occur that result in the spread of the virus, adjustments to schedule or other unspecified league impact.
"The protocols do not implement themselves," Goodell added, "and our progress thus far cannot lead us to complacency. Complacency is our shared opponent."

According to the memo, the league will now:
* Require a longer onboarding process for free-agent tryouts
* Limitations on the number of tryouts per week
* Ban on gatherings outside the club facility
* Implement a video monitoring system to ensure compliance with protocols.

They are going to have video monitoring. I wonder if that means every player has to wear a gopro when he's outside of his house/apartment. 😂



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Originally Posted by: wpr 

The Titans already faced a potentially significant punishment for alleged protocol breaches that fueled an outbreak of COVID-19. Given the news that the team apparently gathered to practice last week after expressly being told not to do so, the Titans could be facing a consequence the likes of which the NFL has never seen.

There’s buzz in league circles of possible “historic” punishment for the Titans given the various violations.

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Throw in the apparently deliberate effort to defy instructions by the league to stand down during an outbreak in order to prevent it from exacerbating, and the NFL could soon make past punishment imposed on the Patriots seem like parking tickets.