Yahoo Sports "spoke to 11 NFL team employees in different franchises, asking each to do a verbal walkthrough of their typical day since facilities opened," and several employees emphasized their coaches' failure to follow safety protocols, according to Charles Robinson of YAHOO SPORTS. One employee said, "I could have probably reported (my head coach) 10 times by now for doing things he's not supposed to be doing." Several employees said that coaches "tend to be the ones who either skirt some of the rules inside the facility or ignore them altogether." Much like the outside world, the people who are being asked to follow the rules as strictly as possible are "noticing others who don't," and from multiple accounts, the "'others' are often on the coaching staff." Every team employee -- all 11 surveyed -- said that they "heard some mention of the Marlins when stressing safety." Robinson noted a few teams have "set up a phone number that employees can call if they want to report protocols being broken or other concerns." Another employee said that they "have been instructed to report protocol issues but given no structure for how to do it." Meanwhile, everybody has been "consistent" about doing the nasal swab testing every day. All 11 employees said that their teams "had created an impressive number of hurdles to keep COVID out of their buildings" (SPORTS.YAHOO.com, 8/3).
MEDICAL MIST? USA TODAY's Andrew Joseph notes the Broncos have "gone to a length that seems awfully unnecessary when it comes to preventing the spread of the coronavirus." The Broncos are "having players walk through a sanitizing spray upon entering the practice field." But a spray "won't do anything to prevent those pesky respiratory droplets." Joseph: "All of this was just hygiene theater" (USA TODAY, 8/4).
