Panthers to fine Covid-19 Crew

[MHS831]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/report-panthers-set-to-fine-players-for-breaking-covid-19-protocols/ar-BB1bSpFy

Did not see this anywhere else.

[LinvilleGorge]

CYA move by the Panthers. We don't need to lose a draft pick over this. I don't care about Tepper's wallet. Any fine levied by the NFL would be the equivalent of fining the average person a few bucks.

[MHS831]

Since the team did not facilitate this in any way, I doubt the league takes a pick away, but they could fine the team.

[ncstatekwi]

Idiots....sit all players who violated the protocol and jeopardized the team!!  Clearly they are putting themselves first and not thinking about the team!

[onmyown]

1 hour ago, LinvilleGorge said:

CYA move by the Panthers. We don't need to lose a draft pick over this. I don't care about Tepper's wallet. Any fine levied by the NFL would be the equivalent of fining the average person a few bucks.

Yep, we already lose picks employing Hurney

[MHS831]

14 minutes ago, ncstatekwi said:

Idiots....sit all players who violated the protocol and jeopardized the team!!  Clearly they are putting themselves first and not thinking about the team!

This sentence is applicable to about 40% of America.

[BrianS]

The Panthers are not in any danger of a fine from the league for this incident!  The situations are completely different.

The fines for the Saints and Raiders were for violations of the NFL policy surrounding official team activities.  In the Saints case it was during post game events.  For the Raiders, it was an aggregation of violations, again, during the events of an NFL game day.

Nothing about what happened to the Panthers falls under that umbrella.  It wasn't at an official team event, it wasn't at their facilities.  The team can try to fine the players, but the NFLPA will probably file a protest, and probably win.  The team cannot tell it's players what to do on their own time.

[Peon Awesome]

2 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

CYA move by the Panthers. We don't need to lose a draft pick over this. I don't care about Tepper's wallet. Any fine levied by the NFL would be the equivalent of fining the average person a few bucks.

Not sure. Seems like the violation fell way short of the ones the NFL has fined to this point; mostly egregious and/or repeat violations. By precedent, even a fine seems unlikely, draft pick forfeiture much less so. If anything I wonder if the Panthers making a bigger deal of it is drawing unnecessary attention. Whereas a smattering of positive cases on a team has become par for the course these days and probably would barely raise an eye, particularly during a bye week, now suddenly we're throwing ourselves back in the spotlight with a national story. I still think either way we probably won't hear anything else from the league, but I suspect this is more of the organization trying to assert zero tolerance to discourage any future offenses that could have bigger consequences.

[TheSpecialJuan]

2 hours ago, MHS831 said:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/report-panthers-set-to-fine-players-for-breaking-covid-19-protocols/ar-BB1bSpFy

Did not see this anywhere else.

[KBRed]

1 hour ago, MHS831 said:

This sentence is applicable to about 40% of America.

And 80% of North Carolina

[LinvilleGorge]

14 minutes ago, TheSpecialJuan said:

Every time I see this picture, I have to assume that he's fluent in authentic frontier gibberish.

[Iron Saint]

When I read the thread title I thought it was referring to the employees that go around and disinfect the facility and such.

I was like, “what will fining them do?” LOLOL.

[kungfoodude]

3 hours ago, onmyown said:

Yep, we already lose picks employing Hurney

[kungfoodude]

2 hours ago, KBRed said:

And 80% of North Carolina

We aren't as bad as some states, that is for sure. I didn't see poo for masks in Ohio.