[St. Loser Fan]

[St. Loser Fan]

My guess is this later release gives the Rams and the Raiders some wiggle room.

[Elvis]

From today's FMIA:

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2 ... cid=fmiatw

• How does the NFL schedule the Rams for a Week 1 opener at new So-Fi Stadium? With reports that Covid-19 could slow the finish to the new Los Angeles stadium—expected to be open by late July—and with California Gov. Gavin Newsom saying Saturday he is “not anticipating” sports events with full stadiums in his state in September, it’s hard to plan a celebratory launch in L.A. Around the NFL, and around Dallas and Los Angeles, there has been anticipation for a national-TV Cowboys-Rams season-opener. Speaking of schedules . . .

• It’s likely the NFL schedule-makers, led by Howard Katz, will spend their extra time this month working on 12-game and 14-game schedule alternatives. Roger Goodell sometimes sounds like New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo when he says inside NFL offices: “Hope is not a strategy.” In this case, the league hopes it can play a full 16-game regular-season schedule with a bye week. But nothing is certain these days. In the wake of the league saying the schedule would be released on May 9 at the latest, it would be foolish to sit on the schedule that could be ready by next week and not take the next five weeks to prepare for alternatives. That’s why I’m sure they are working on shorter, compacted schedules.

Spitballing: A 14-game schedule could be as simple as the league assigning every team one home and one road game on the weekends of Sept. 13 and 20, and if the season couldn’t start till the weekend of Sept. 27, those first two games could simply be lopped off the schedule, and each team would be left with seven home and seven road games. A more radical idea, if the season couldn’t start till mid-October: Opening night Oct. 15 at Kansas City, opening weekend continues on Oct. 18 and 19, a 12-week regular season, no byes, final regular-season games on Jan. 3. In that case, imagine the NFL scrubbing all preseason games and having training camps, likely closed to the public, beginning in early to mid-September. That’s five months from now. So much can happen to affect the schedule, obviously.

[ramsman34]

Most likely we have a season. Getting more and more likely, it will be a truncated one. The ONLY way I see that changing is if there is a massive downturn of this disease starting by the 3rd week of may at the latest. Players need time to get back into a real training program with trainers/coaches, acclimate new players/rookies, build stamina and flexibility - ALL health related.

That said, i predict there very well could be a lot more injuries this season. Lack of continuity in training is a huge deal.

[Elvis]

I heard someone on the radio talking about how the teams with the most continuity would have an advantage in 2020...

[Hacksaw]

Well that wont be us. At least on the D side.

[PARAM]

Didn't know where else to put this.....couldn't find the expanded playoffs thread.....but if we had the playoff format last year, the Rams are in the postseason as everybody knows.

They would have faced the Packers in a wild card game. If they got past them they would have faced the 49ers in the divisional round.