Cheesehead
Well-known member
- Mar 19, 2019
- 2,854
- 0
LaFleur reiterated those thoughts, emphasizing there's a lot on the players, as well as anyone associated with the team who comes in contact with the players, to be following safety protocols at all times.
"If we're going to have football played this year, it's going to take a lot of self-discipline and a lot of self-accountability," LaFleur said. "Certainly we're going to encourage our guys, if they choose to go out in public, to mask up.
"We're all in this sucker together, that's for sure."
In a full-contact sport like football, following proper social distancing and safety measures is impossible 100% of the time. But the Packers, along with the rest of the NFL, are doing what they can in addition to testing players every day to mitigate risks outside of practices and games.
That includes a reconfigured locker room and meeting spaces, changes to the team cafeteria procedures, a requirement for all football personnel to wear masks in the facility, and other stipulations. The roster will be reduced to 80 players by the time padded practices start later this month, but until then on-field work will involve splitting the squad into two groups, with rookies and recovering injured players working out separately from the veteran players.