While I was out and about last night, Graham dropped this little bomb on us.
My first thought upon seeing that was to hope that if JT has any symptoms, they’re mild at worst.
My second thought? Welp, that was answered pretty quickly.
Georgia quarterback JT Daniels and receiver George Pickens are among UGA players who have been placed in COVID protocol, per sources. Daniels is vaccinated but Pickens’ vaccination status is unknown.
The Georgia football medical staff will be offering its players booster shots on Wednesday amid the recent surge in COVID-related cases across the sports landscape. Coach Kirby Smart is not expected to be made available to the media to update player statuses until the team arrives in South Florida on Sunday.
So, it’s spread among the team and staff and we won’t get any definitive answers on the health front until next week. Oh, and everyone gets to go home for a couple of days for the Christmas holiday before heading down to Florida. Needless to say, the timing on how long players who test positive have to sit before being allowed to hit the field gets pretty tricky from here.
At least that will take our minds off fretting about whether JT or Stetson should start at quarterback against Michigan, right?
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UPDATE: One side note from Anthony Dasher…
Georgia only tests athletes if they are symptomatic or unvaccinated.
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Good Lord; what else will happen to us this year?
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Hello, darkness my old friend. It’s Bulldog football once again… 🤕😵😳
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Hopefully nobody chokes and dies while eating since that is more likely than dying of Covid. But, ya never know with the Dawgs.
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You weren’t kidding when you named yourself “fake” were you:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/527321/deaths-due-to-choking-in-the-us/
Why not try 123 Full of Shit St?
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If you consider their age and health, their likelihood of suffering adverse effects from covid are nearly zero.
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And that is completely irrelevant as the sports administration building is not occupied solely by 20 year old football players.
There are mothers and fathers and grandparents and people who take care of people who are at risk at work and when they go home.
Simplemindedness is a major cause of death worldwide. Its a fatal flaw dawg.
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Then they shouldn’t be playing football ! Why would they risk the lives of these mothers, fathers and grandparents over a stupid game???
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You’re babbling.
You test the players to protect themselves, their fellow students, their professors, their families, the people in the athletic department, etc….
It really is a good thing for everyone to know if you have COVID or if you don’t.
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And on a positive note Nolan Smith is smarter and more compassionate than you.
Georgia outside linebacker Nolan Smith, a third-year sophomore believed to be angling toward returning for another season, said Tuesday that UGA has tightened its COVID protocols of late.
“Mostly wearing masks in the building, that’s a big thing we have going on, starting back and wearing masks again,” Smith said. “Everyone thought we were done with the masks, and now the masks have come back.”
Smith said the Georgia players are dedicated toward “anything to win games” as well as keeping one another and their respective families’ protected.
“A lot of guys are about to go home to their families,” Smith said. “I’m going to see my grandmom and going to go hunting with my uncle, and I don’t want to get those people sick.”
https://www.ajc.com/sports/georgia-bulldogs/report-georgias-jt-daniels-george-pickens-in-covid-protocol/NBZYXGZIUNHWZKTISGRHOCYO4M/
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Tis was for flawdawg.
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Forget it Jake. It’s Chinatown.
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A day after we read about Saban re-instituting COVID protocols, we find out some potentially key contributors are out. If it’s omicron, it’s gonna run through this team like an Alabama running back. If it’s delta, someone will get real sick.
And if it’s Georgia, you can count on them screwing something good up when proper precautions could have been taken.
Between this and the news about staffer who should have been suspended going on a work trip, I’m a bit perturbed by our staff and team.
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I think you meant that omicron would run through this team like an Alabama wide receiver in the secondary, but YMMV.
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Show do you know precautions weren’t taken?
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Looks like our resident epidemiologist has entered the chat. Do tell Ben, with your insider knowledge on Georgia’s COVID procedures… two years into this virus making everyone look like fools, but Ben knows what’s up…
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Oh brother, what proper precautions do you suggest? Putting on masks that prevent covid particles from spreading about as well as a chain link fence can stop a sand blaster?
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Gives them a week and a half to get better. I think we are fine. Some will miss some practice time but they are breaking for 3 days anyway after today.
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I had COVID Classic exactly one year ago and I can tell you that it may take ten days or two weeks or whatever to beat it, but it took me weeks afterwards to recover my cardiovascular capacity. Granted I was 40 years old and not an athlete receiving world class care and training.
Obviously we don’t know if it’s Delta or Omicron but I’ve read some reports suggesting that the Omicron variant is less severe and doesn’t really attack the lungs, so hopefully that’s the case – granted if it is Omicron it’s also supposedly much more contagious and therefore more likely to sweep through Butts-Mehre which isn’t a good thing either.
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It didn’t effect me. I was back working within a few days. Tests be damned.
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Well I guess you should suit up then Biggen
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Graham made it sound like the whole QB room is in the close contact protocol which means they have to isolate too. Pretty tough to get ready to play if you can’t have QBs in practice.
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You don’t have to isolate if you’re vaccinated.
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“Daniels is vaccinated” “JT Daniels has tested positive for Covid-19 and entered quarantine”
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I think he means that if Stetson, Beck et al. are vaccinated they should be good to go as long as they don’t show symptoms.
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Good to know. It’s hard to keep track of all the different rules and policies out there.
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I guess we know who will be the starting QB in Miami now (as if we didn’t know before).
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Muschamps kid?
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Kirby been playin’ y’all for weeks with all this “every QB is preparing and working to make us better”. Been plannin it fer years (just like Squints)! Since this is wrapped up with a bow for Christmas, I think we can go back to Kirby shoulda started Fields, amiright?
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I read that in Squints voice even before I got to your citation. Let me guess, you too are late 30s / early 40s ?
For the record, Wendy Preffircorn is still smokin.
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Late 40’s but I look young for my age 😉
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If UGA is the only team in the playoff dealing with this, we’ll know it’s a clear signal from the universe that this was never going to be the year.
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Hell, if COVID starts ripping through the QB room, Jackson Muschamp might have to start.
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As a Dawg fan, I expect shit like this.
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In my mind this actually increases the chances that JTD starts on 12/31/21. I mean…. isn’t there a possibility he’s cleared to play and out of quarantine by that time, but if SBIV tests positive over the next few days he won’t be?
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Missing 10 days of practice is no small thing
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No, I get that…. but what if SBIV tests positive today, or any day between now and 12/31. Then he can’t play, period. Right?
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Once he tests negative I think he can come back. I don’t think the 10 days is automatic. Didn’t Saban recover in less than 72 hours or so.
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I guess you’re either elite at testing negative or you’re not
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Saban doesn’t have Covid protocols. Covid has Saban protocols, aight ?
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Missing practices seems to be the one area JT excels
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Nurse, bubble wrap for JT stat. Jfc
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The real protection of the vaccine and/booster is largely against disease (getting really sick), but unfortunately not against acquisition of infection.
Depending on testing requirements, the bowls could be in trouble.
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If it was any institution other than the NCAA, I would expect them to have contingency plans for scenarios where teams have 10-20 positives.
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Out of my control so I’ll have another cup of coffee and relax.
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I might Irish my coffee up but will otherwise do the same.
I suppose the real worry is not who might be infected now but who inevitably will be after the Xmas break. Would be wild after months of consternation about JT vs Stetson if Beck ends up starting.
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I think it will be a disaster and disservice to the whole season if any of the playoff teams are down significant star power or have decimated position groups. I feel that about all 4 teams.
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JT wasn’t going to play anyway.
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paging faton bauta…paging faton bauta….
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Really hard to address this without dragging personal politics into it (which in saner times would have no bearing whatsoever on health care), so suffice it to say I am not worried about the health of the young, healthy, vaccinated individuals involved, but I am alarmed that a mild variant so far down the mutation tree that most people infected dont even know they fucking have it could wipe out or seriously alter the bowl season and CFP. I’m old enough to remember “2 weeks to flatten the curve”.
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Well put.
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I just pray at this point that we will be able to look back on this—i’ll safely say 10 years—and all scratch our heads about the mania. Seems like when i was little all the parents were hyper terrified about kidnapping and Aids. I don’t think it was ever this bad. And Aids is definitely 100x worse.
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Agree, shit keeps getting stranger.
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Hearing that the NCAA is about to change prorocals for those testing postivie who are vaxxed. No real time period anymore but two negative tests 24 hours apart after testing positive gets you off the the protocal list. We are moving to the endemic portion of this thing for the vaccinated. That should come pretty quickly and makes sense.
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Exactly, testing positive for the Omni variant is far from the end of the world…
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Well, sure, until Fauci announces the next variant coming down the pipe.
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