76% of covid survivors in one study (2/3 of whom were never hospitalized) hearts were damaged as if they’d had a heart attack https://t.co/srvAtIcEJV

— Nick Riccardi (@NickRiccardi) July 29, 2020

QBs with the most passing yards after the catch in 2019

Jared Goff – 2,250
Philip Rivers – 2,185
Jimmy Garoppolo – 2,159
Derek Carr – 2,122
Aaron Rodgers – 2,009
Patrick Mahomes – 1,955
Dak Prescott – 1,918
Jameis Winston – 1,860
Kyler Murray – 1,852
Tom Brady – 1,824

— NFL Stats (@NFL_Stats) July 29, 2020

The bubble impact on sports:
NBA: 0 positive tests since July 13th
NHL: 0 positive tests in 4,256 administered in 7-day span July 18th-25th
MLS: 0 positive tests in last nine major rounds of testing
NWSL: 0 positive tests during its entire tournament

Huge.

— Field Yates (@FieldYates) July 29, 2020

Governor Kate Brown@OregonGovBrown
After my discussions with VP Pence and others, the federal government has agreed to withdraw federal officers from Portland. They have acted as an occupying force & brought violence. Starting tomorrow, all Customs and Border Protection & ICE officers will leave downtown Portland.

Our local Oregon State Police officers will be downtown to protect Oregonians’ right to free speech and keep the peace. Let’s center the Black Lives Matter movement’s demands for racial justice and police accountability. It’s time for bold action to reform police practices.

Bucky Brooks@BuckyBrooks
Notice how CBs aren’t cracking the top of the market.. There’s a belief in coaching circles that it’s hard to find a legit “shutdown” CB. Many believe the pass rush impacts the game far more than coverage. That’s why the investment skews heavily toward pass rushers (DE and DT)

Common theme… QBs, Pass rushers, OTs and playmakers.. Those are the guys who are getting paid in today’s game.

JUST IN: Experts who sounded the alarm to Trump administration officials about the gathering coronavirus crisis break their silence, offering a searing assessment of how the federal government blundered through the critical first months of the outbreak. https://t.co/VT0uePJkWd

— ABC News (@ABC) July 28, 2020

Landry Locker@LandryLocker
If the reports are true and the Miami Marlins really hit the town when they weren’t supposed to then Derek Jeter should be forced to resign.

“Anywhere you’re at on the field, he’s somewhere near ballhawking.”

Ready to see a full season of @jalenramsey as a Ram 😈#NFLTop100 x @nflnetwork pic.twitter.com/CT9OcYnNy6

— Los Angeles Rams (@RamsNFL) July 29, 2020

Making his third career appearance on the #NFLTop100, Rams cornerback Jalen Ramsey checks in at No. 37 this year: https://t.co/l8cGnGJswF

— Stu Jackson (@StuJRams) July 29, 2020

Players maintain respect for former Rams running back Todd Gurley with surprisingly high ranking on NFL Top 100 https://t.co/2iSEdDkYTz

— TurfShowTimes (@TurfShowTimes) July 28, 2020

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JosinaAnderson@JosinaAnderson
NFL head coach to me on Marlins CoVID outbreak: “Yeah. Bad start. Have to see how it all plays out.”

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Dave Dameshek@Dameshek
I’ve seen zero evidence anyone in the sports media is rooting for sports to be cancelled (for any reason besides participants’ safety). Then again, despite my journalism degree & 20 yrs in media, I STILL haven’t been looped into any alleged deep state efforts so what do I know…

Don’t get me wrong: There are plenty of curmudgeons in the media – When I interned at a local news affiliate many moons ago, I asked a sports anchor for his advice. He said, “If you love sports, don’t go into sports media. The players will make you hate what you love.”

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Warren Sharp@SharpFootball
People are mad about the NFL top 100?

They’re just now realizing it’s bad?

In their first year doing it, they had QB Josh Freeman at 86

Next year, Tim Tebow at 95

Hell, they had RB DeMarco Murray at NUMBER 4 OVERALL in 2015!!

Players & fans: stop caring about that nonsense

𝕋𝕠𝕞 – 𝕃𝔸 ℝ𝕒𝕞𝕤@TL_LARams
Another reason @BigGame81 should be in the Hall of Fame already. Only two WRs in the entire history of the NFL had over 8,000 receiving yards in their first 6 seasons: Randy Moss and Torry Holt

TurfShowTimes@TurfShowTimes
Rams looking to post 4 straight winning seasons for first time since 1986

Jourdan Rodrigue@JourdanRodrigue
I think Wolford is a pretty decent backup, lots of teams around the league won’t have as ready an answer if anything happens to their QB1.

P-squads are expanded and teams can protect four guys each week. I think protected guys will be a backup QB, a backup kicker, OL depth and maybe a WR or TE depending on how the numbers shake out there. And as for the rest of the practice squad, it’s great that it expanded because I think many in the Rams’ UDFA class have a lot of talent. I really like Brandon Polk, and Rozeboom is an ideal develop-in-house candidate.

I’d bet Anchrum ends up on the active roster at some point during the year. But for many rookies (and particularly the closer you get to the line of scrimmage) it just takes some time to adjust. I think Anchrum, if he doesn’t make the initial, could well be one of the protected PSquad players at minimum.

MLB’s Worst Nightmare Is Here. They Should Have Seen It Coming
The league is grappling with a widespread COVID-19 outbreak on the Miami Marlins.

https://www.si.com/mlb/2020/07/27/miami-marlins-covid-outbreak-testing?suid=5cc1bb7e2ddf9c753fb8acd5&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SI%20Extra%20072720&utm_term=SI%20Extra%20-%20USE%20THIS%20-%20List

And here we have it, the least surprising possible outcome of MLB’s decision to fly some 1,500 people around the country, from one coronavirus hotspot to another, buttressed by a hope and a prayer and instructions not to spit, in service of playing baseball: They have to stop playing baseball.

Four Marlins players had tested positive for COVID-19 by Sunday afternoon. As of Monday morning, that count was reportedly at least 11 players and two coaches. Miami’s scheduled Monday night home opener against the Orioles has been postponed.

But the Marlins played three games against the Phillies this weekend. Last week, they played two exhibition games in Atlanta against the Braves. It’s impossible to know how far the infected droplets sprayed. Both of the Braves’ primary catchers, Tyler Flowers and Travis d’Arnaud, missed the weekend series against the Mets after they exhibited COVID-19 symptoms. The Phillies players and coaches are waiting on test results; The Athletic reported that their entire visiting clubhouse staff has been quarantined. The Yankees-Phillies game on Monday has been postponed. The season is four days old.

This is a catastrophe. It’s also exactly what epidemiologists have been predicting for weeks.

Owners and players agreed this spring to eschew a “bubble” system—players didn’t want to leave their families and owners didn’t want to cede the revenue that comes from stadium sponsorships—and instead use the more dangerous plan of traveling from city to city. The parties also agreed to test players only every other day, returning results within 48 hours, which means a player could be carrying—and spreading—the virus for nearly four days before he knows about it.

(And MLB can’t even guarantee that insufficient frequency. Within the first few days of summer camp, at least four teams had to cancel workouts because they did not have test results back. The Angels had to delay practice because testers never showed up at all.)

Earlier this month, the league distributed an operations manual of more than 100 pages that laid out everything from the mechanics of placing a player on the injured list to the best way to use the bathroom on the team plane. But it does not address what level of COVID-19 spread would cancel a game or the season.

The Marlins players met before the game on Sunday to discuss their options. Miami manager Don Mattingly said that his team “never really considered not playing.”

Why did athletes, rather than infectious disease specialists, get to make that decision? Because there are no adults in the room. There never have been. Once the owners and the players stopped squabbling over the details and agreed to play, both sides had too much financial incentive to force through a season. Just look at the way the league and the union trumpet their COVID-19 test results every week, announcing the percentage of positive samples, rather than of people, tested. Those numbers are a sham. If someone tests negative three times and then positive the fourth, the first three aren’t a success story.

Commissioner Rob Manfred has not conducted an open interview with the press since February. His most recent media appearance came on Thursday, during the Yankees-Nationals season opener, when he smiled on ESPN while Alex Rodriguez, who is currently trying to buy the Mets, told him what a “tremendous job” he’s done.

All this looks even more reckless in a country that will soon eclipse 150,000 COVID-19 deaths. The Blue Jays will play their home games in Buffalo, because the Canadian government does not want people coming into the country from the United States. Meanwhile, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., both waived for professional sports teams local regulations that would have forced anyone who came into contact with anyone who tested positive to quarantine for 14 days. Over the weekend, while the Marlins were taking two out of three from the Phillies, Florida eclipsed New York as the state with the second-most COVID-19 cases.

League officials are reportedly planning emergency discussions for Monday afternoon. They could have scheduled them a month ago.