Players Opt Out of the 2020 Season

[nefansince75]

Players who choose to opt out must do so by Tuesday August 4th.

What happens if Patrick Mahomes decides he wants to opt out on Thursday August 6th.??

That's a very good question. It's not like choosing a flavor of ice cream.

 

[NWPATSFAN]

Add Marquis Lee

 

[cheerupcharlie]

Kind of trivial in the big picture of all this. But..... say the NFL cancelled this season. College football plays out. College players have the season under their belts. How do you think the NFL does the draft? How will they determine the draft order?

 

[nefansince75]

Kind of trivial in the big picture of all this. But..... say the NFL cancelled this season. College football plays out. College players have the season under their belts. How do you think the NFL does the draft? How will they determine the draft order?

Draft order seems easy, just follow the previous... but not so fast. There would be way too much benefit for the lowest seeds from last year who should be greatly improved by the virtue of previous draft. I'd say use either a 3 or 5 year weighted order. That would hurt the pats since last year was their worst in 10 years, but probably the best way to balance everyone.

 

[cheerupcharlie]

Draft order seems easy, just follow the previous... but not so fast. There would be way too much benefit for the lowest seeds from last year who should be greatly improved by the virtue of previous draft. I'd say use either a 3 or 5 year weighted order. That would hurt the pats since last year was their worst in 10 years, but probably the best way to balance everyone.

I could see that. Taking the teams average record for so many years and ranking it so forth.

But the drama of a 32 team lottery would be pretty damn exciting.

 

[Southieinnc]

Kind of trivial in the big picture of all this. But..... say the NFL cancelled this season. College football plays out. College players have the season under their belts. How do you think the NFL does the draft? How will they determine the draft order?

 

[BigKen]

Matt Lacasse has opted out. Patriots now have eight players.

Devin McCourty is really upset that the league has decided to make tomorrow the drop dead date.

Devon Clements

3 hours ago

The NFL and NFLPA agreed that the opt-out deadline would happen seven days after the official revision of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, which has yet to be signed. That means the deadline could be as late as Sunday, Aug. 9. However, the NFL has decided to ignore that agreement, as they are trying to shorten the window to either this upcoming Tuesday or Wednesday after over 40 players opted out of the 2020 season over the last week.

Players are obviously not happy about what the NFL is trying to pull. Patriots safety and captain Devin McCourty took the time during his brief video call with reporters on Sunday to express his displeasure with the NFL's handling of the situation.

"I think it's an absolute joke that the NFL is changing the opt-out period, mainly because they don't want to see guys continue to opt out," McCourty said. “I’m sure they’re shocked about how many guys have opted out, but it’s the same thing as, when we sign the CBA sometimes, some of the things we think are good sometimes backfire. We have rookies who are locked in long-term contracts and tagged and tagged. You guys don’t think we would love to change that? But we can’t. That’s the point of signing an agreement.

“I think it’s terrible. I think it’s B.S. that the league has changed that date, because Monday will be our first day in the building, so to try to make that decision about something other than virtual meetings is a joke.”

Over the last six days eight Patriots players have opted out of the 2020 season. Those players are linebacker Dont'a Hightower, starting right tackle Marcus Cannon, guard Najee Toran, receiver Marqise Lee, running back Brandon Bolden, tight end Matt LaCosse, fullback Dan Vitale, and safety Patrick Chung.

If any other players from the team want to opt out, they unfortunately don't have a lot of time left to make their decision.