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Washington trades DE Ryan Kerrigan to the 49ers for a fifth-round pick
The Athletic’s Matt Barrows suggested this one, and it would make a lot of sense. The 49ers rank 21st in pass-rush win rate and could use a boost up front. Kerrigan, 32, is not the player he once was, but he can still contribute, especially if used as a rotational defensive end in passing situations.
Washington is loaded on the defensive line, and Kerrigan has played just 38 percent of the defensive snaps. He’s a free agent after the season, and given how much work Washington’s roster needs, it’s unlikely that it would be getting a compensatory pick for Kerrigan if he left. As for the compensation, the Ravens dealt a fifth-round pick to the Jaguars in the offseason for Calais Campbell, an aging veteran who had been productive. This would be a somewhat similar deal.
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Santa Clara County health officials are on the hot seat after promptly rejecting new state rules allowing some fans to attend pro football, soccer and other outdoor sporting events.
The county is home to some of the only California outdoor stadiums that could potentially welcome back sports fans under the state’s new guidance — the San Francisco 49ers’ Levi’s Stadium, and Earthquakes Stadium, home of San Jose’s Major League Soccer team.
But Santa Clara County, which led the Bay Area in locking down activities back in March, also has been among the slowest to reopen despite moderate outbreaks that are among the lowest of the state’s urban counties. And the continued fan ban didn’t sit well with some of the county’s elected leaders.
“For seven months, we have asked for extraordinary sacrifice from our local residents and businesses,” Supervisor Susan Ellenberg, whose district includes Levi’s, said Wednesday. “I believe we owe them in exchange — at a minimum — transparency in the decision-making processes and a commitment to collaboration in working through how we can contain the virus, while recognizing the ancillary harms that result from prolonged shut downs.”
Supervisors at Tuesday’s board meeting criticized what Ellenberg called a “rush” decision to keep fans out of outdoor stadiums, which came an hour and a half after the state revised its stadium guidance, and called the county executive’s announcement to that effect “unconscionable and inappropriate.”
She and Supervisor Mike Wasserman noted 25 NFL teams in other states are playing in front of fans. And Wasserman questioned whether that is any more dangerous than allowed activities like outdoor dining.
“When I see a couple of couples sitting at a table or three couples sitting at a table, any one them could be asymptomatic,” Wasserman said. “They’re sitting across each other for at least an hour, they don’t have a mask on, so the risk of infection right there is as high as it can possibly get. But we allow that.”
County Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody told county board members Tuesday the state’s announcement on fans in stadiums — which applies only to counties with no more than moderate coronavirus outbreaks — came as a “surprise.” But she defended the decision not to go along.
“It’s in my judgment not safe for our community, especially now when we still have so many businesses and so many activities that have not been able to resume,” Cody told the board. “We’re staring down what could be a really rugged winter.”
With the state’s allowance for 20% capacity crowds in outdoor stadiums, some 13,000 fans would be allowed to gather at Levi’s.
“Even if you sort of conservatively run those numbers, you are going to have a couple hundred infected people coming into a stadium together,” Cody told the board. “It’s simply not safe to gather fans together.”
49ers president Al Guido said in a Wednesday interview on KNBR that the team hopes to be able to work with the county supervisors and administration to find ways to safely host fans at upcoming games.
“We’ve had a lot of dialogue since their announcement yesterday,” Guido told KNBR, adding that they would perform temperature checks on all fans, require a signed health questionnaire and evaluate a staggered entry to the stadium to avoid having fans congregate while waiting in line. “We look forward to continuing to work with them.”
49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan said not having fans in the stands this year like so many other NFL teams has put the Niners at a disadvantage.
“It’s been tough,” Shanahan said. “I hope we can eventually figure out something. Hopefully they’ll keep talking and feel safe like they do other places.”
But that didn’t seem likely Wednesday.
“All the ‘talk’ in the world will not change the biology of the virus,” County Executive Jeff Smith, Cody’s boss, who also holds a medical degree, said Wednesday. “The virus spreads rapidly in large crowds, and the virus is deadly. There’s no way that ‘talk’ will change those facts.”
Not all the five Santa Clara County supervisors who appoint the county executive seemed troubled with the county keeping fans out of the stands.
Board President Cindy Chavez had nothing to say on the matter Wednesday or during Tuesday’s meeting. A spokeswoman Wednesday said Supervisor Joe Simitian “has nothing to share” and deferred to the county health officer. Supervisor Dave Cortese, whose district includes Earthquakes Stadium, was not part of the discussion at Tuesday’s board meeting and was unavailable Wednesday.
Sporting events were an early casualty of the coronavirus pandemic that has infected more than 41 million worldwide, including 8.3 million Americans, and killed 1.1 million, including more than 221,000 in the U.S.
As the pandemic erupted, health officials in the spring shut down everything from pro basketball and hockey to high school and college athletics. Baseball teams in Japan and Korea played in empty stadiums, a move copied in the U.S. when Major League Baseball launched a shortened season in July.
Since then, health officials in other states have begun to allow stadiums to have a reduced number of fans, including at baseball’s World Series, being played at a retractable-roof stadium in Arlington, Texas. So far, there have been few fan cases reported. Last month, Kansas City health officials said 10 fans who attended a Chiefs football game were told to quarantine after one fan tested positive.
California’s revised guidance would allow outdoor pro sports stadiums in its “orange” tier counties such as Santa Clara to have fans from up to 120 miles away at up to 20% capacity, and allows up to 25% capacity in “yellow” tier counties with minimal outbreaks.
The state is still forbidding fans at all indoor stadiums. Cody acknowledged outdoor venues are lower risk than poorly ventilated indoor arenas and that face masks and keeping people spaced apart also help. But she said those measures would be undercut by things fans do at games — shouting, cheering and removing face masks to eat and drink.
But Wasserman noted that local families already travel to youth sports games in neighboring counties, where they are masked and socially distanced.
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Via Sports Business Daily, Packers CEO Mark Murphy recently acknowledged that the ultimate contingency plan includes bumping the Super Bowl to March.
“We could move the Super Bowl back as far as four weeks,” Murphy said during a virtual pep rally prior to the game against the Buccaneers. “Obviously, we’d prefer not to do that, but you do have that flexibility if we run into a number of outbreaks with different teams or if we have to kind of move the schedule back.”
That’s still a last resort. Indeed, the league is still resisting as long as possible tacking an eighteenth week onto the regular season.
“We’d prefer not to [add a week], we’d like to play as much as possible [with] the schedule as it sits now,” Murphy said, explaining that the cancellation of the Pro Bowl makes it easy to push everything back a week and keep the Super Bowl in its current spot: Sunday, February 7.
There should be no reason to bump the Super Bowl to March 7. That would happen if the league needs five makeup weekends, or if the league ultimately decides to temporarily shut things down amid multiple outbreaks and missed games.
One way or another, the NFL will complete the season. In 1982, the league conducted a postseason and a Super Bowl despite staging only nine regular-season games per teams. Already, most teams have played six games.
The bigger challenge this year will come from ensuring that all teams play 16 games. Most fans have yet to comprehend the possibility of teams making or missing the playoffs based on playing only 14 or 15 games.
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Pete Carroll said “we’re nowhere there right now" when asked about the #Seahawks comfort level with Antonio Brown's checkered resume.He won't be able to sidestep those questions if Seattle ends up signing the embattled wideout.
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OAKLAND, Calif. - Golden State Warriors guard Klay Thompson helped bring immeasurable joy to a terminally ill Bay Area woman and her husband.
When the NBA superstar learned one of his biggest fans is dying of cancer and has an estimated two to six weeks to live, he helped make her wish come true by joining her on a video call on Monday.
It was wonderful. He was just an absolute gentleman, a real kind man. I loved every minute of it,” said Deborah Wright, 62, of the East Bay. “I didn’t think it would ever happen. It’s been on my bucket list for years, but I never thought there would be a chance he’d want to talk to me."
The impetus for the encounter was her husband Randall Wright. He took to social media last week to throw up a long-range shot, asking if Thompson could virtually call his wife who he affectionately refers to as his bride.
“I ask for nothing else,” Randall Wright wrote in the post. “No gifts, money, or anything...just for the possibility of a visit from Mr. Thompson.”
Wright published a post and tagged KTVU’s Frank Somerville, who shared the message on his Facebook page last Friday. The post gained some traction and was forwarded to the Warriors public relations staff. By Monday, the couple was chatting with Thomspon.
The free-flowing conversation featured a guest appearance from Thompson’s bulldog Rocco as they talked about sports and Wright’s relationship with the Warriors.
“It really felt like we’ve been friends forever. He was so down to earth. We could’ve talked for hours. It just felt like that,” said Wright.
She was initially drawn to the Dubs because of their teamwork. But a post-game interview from years back after Thompson had a very productive night is what solidified her love for the all-star. She said Thompson excitedly gave credit to his teammates and deferred from self-praise.
And speaking of self-praise, while discussing her battle with cancer, Wright mentioned her four children and three grandkids. What she didn’t say initially is she and her husband adopted those children-- her husband interjected with the touching detail.
“They were not born under my heart, they were born in it,” she said.
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Wright recently had to make an unimaginably difficult decision after her metastatic breast cancer spread to other areas of her body. She was preparing for a procedure to attack cancer in the lining of her brain and spinal cord, but doctors determined her central nervous system was being impacted and the chance for a successful round of chemotherapy was low.
“Right now, I had to think, ‘Do I want quantity of life or quality of life?’” said Wright. “I chose quality.”
And while doctors have given Wright just two to six weeks left to live, she may have gained some extra time from recent brain radiation treatment.
“Judging on how I feel mentally, I’m thinking we did get some time out of that,” she said.
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4. How many regular-season games will each team play?
7 — 82 games
• “Basing that on how well they handled the Bubble.”
• “I think the biggest question is when or if they allow fans. A lot depends on what happens with the NFL and the colleges. … Until we get the virus straight all of these questions are really unanswerable.”
7 — 70-72 games
4.5 — 60-62 games
1.5 — 50 games
5. When will the season start?
11 — January
6 — March
3 — February
• ” January 15. Too early to tell if home arenas or a bubble. Can they vaccinate players? They have to protect the players.”
• “Super Bowl Sunday.”
• “Right after Valentine’s Day.”
• “March, in home arenas with fans. Go normal with the regular season. Address any positive tests as they come, but maybe playoffs go back to the bubble.”
• “March 1. They’re going to wait as long as they can to play every game in front of fans. I don’t think they want to come out right now and scare anyone talking about March 1 but it’s going to be March 1.”
• “(March.) If there’s any hope for a vaccine that’s reasonably safe it seems like — what is it $2 million per game per team off of having fans in the seats, that’s $2 billion dollars? That’s a lot of money.”
6. What was the most random care package item you sent to the bubble or were asked to send a client?
• “One of my good friends bought an electric scooter. From the front door to the room was like a 15-minute walk and he wasn’t doing that seven times a day. Plus a lot of wine.”
• “A type of ultra-deluxe toothbrush.”
• “A pair of customized shoes for a player to wear for social injustice.”
• “We didn’t ask, we just sent stuff. We sent music. We sent gadgets. On a weekly basis, we sent items to them.”
• “A mattress.”
• “Ultra-red light mat.”
• “One was a personalized blanket and bluetooth air freshener.”
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