The league on Tuesday fined the New Orleans Saints’ Sean Payton and Las Vegas Raiders’ Jon Gruden $100,000 apiece for not following the league’s directive to wear face coverings on the sideline during games.
Green Bay Packers
Harbaugh said it was an emotional time for the team, and he said everyone did their best to be transparent and honest in answering players' questions.
The memo, obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday night, says that repeated or flagrant violators of the protocols could be banned from participating in the 2020 season and postseason.
New York Giants
The Kansas City Chiefs are headed to Southern California to face the Los Angeles Chargers in Week 2, and Chiefs head coach Andy Reid will be back with his face shield. However, there will be a slight twist.
The opposite seems true here in 2020. Wentz is accomplished in this league and Hurts is a rookie, but given the wind that filled the team's sails when Hurts was inserted into the lineup Sunday, and the at-sea-without-wind-or-paddle feel this team has had for almost the entire season, can Pederson look his team in the eye and say Wentz gives them the best chance against the Saints?
Atlanta Falcons
Why do your glasses fog up when you’re wearing a face mask?
British optometrists Margrain and Owen described the mechanism that causes glasses to mist up. Glass or plastic lenses will usually attain a temperature that’s close to that of their environment. When you are in a cool place and exhale into your mask, the mask blocks and re-directs some of your breath up toward the top edge of the mask and under your glasses. the warm moist air of your breath reaches the lens surface. When the warm breath hits the cool lens, the water in the breath condenses causing your lenses to fog up.
It's unclear if Canty will be able to get a medical exemption, but it's hard to imagine the league wouldn't work with him in changing up his facemask to a workable extent in the event that what he submits doesn't pass. Canty hasn't been the only one to speak out, as Darnell Dockett of the Arizona Cardinals has, unsurprisingly, weighed in on the matter.
Of course, Dockett's reasoning is quite a bit different than Canty's. It's unclear if Dockett does have a medical reason to prefer an elaborate facemask, but his Tweet suggests he's most-concerned about the swag aspect of his helmets. The NFL does have strict uniform code, which is frequently violated by players who don't mind paying the relatively small fines.
Seattle Seahawks