COVID-19

First sourced by Ryan Spagnoli, the Patriots have canceled today’s planned practice session and all media for the rest of the day following another positive COVID-19 test.

It’s unclear who in the organization may have tested positive, but this now cast serious doubt once again on another Patriots game week. Additional reports of a second, not yet confirmed positive test could be announced shortly.

What’s Next?

This is really bad, now with the Patriots and Broncos bye weeks in the books, the NFL has backed themselves into a scheduling corner of nightmares.

The one good thing is that the Pats have mostly been remote/virtually working this week and only had one practice outdoors which was yesterday, so this could be an isolated event, but forfeits may come into the fray if the team isn’t able to play the game this week.

At this time per the above tweet, there is no change to Sunday’s scheduled game.

Per Adam Schefter, the NFL is postponing the Patriots-Broncos game.

“This decision was made to ensure the health and safety of players, coaches and game day personnel and in consultation with medical experts.”

NFL on Patriots-Broncos postponement

Not at all surprising, and it looks that this will be the team’s bye week, but the NFL needs to get a grip of reality right now, the Titans had another positive test today, and it’s only going to get worse if serious action isn’t taken.