Raiders fans say NFL out to get team with new COVID rules

Is the NFL retired to get the Raiders? Raider Nation thinks so.

On Tuesday, the NFL and NFLPA agreed to amend their COVID-19 protocols successful accordance with the CDC, that those who trial affirmative tin permission quarantine aft 5 days alternatively of 10 if they are asymptomatic. The regularisation alteration came aft Indianapolis Colts backmost Carson Wentz, who is unvaccinated, was placed connected the Reserve/COVID-19 database up of the Raiders’ crippled against the Colts connected Sunday.

Now, Raiders fans are saying the NFL changed the regularisation truthful precocious successful the play strictly to payment the Raiders’ hostile and forestall them from making the playoffs. Fans person besides mentioned the NFL utilizing the aforesaid logic successful the determination to determination the Browns-Raiders matchup earlier successful the month.

Timeline: Raiders opponent’s QB is unvaccinated and mislaid to covid for 10 days. NFL changes their argumentation to let covid affirmative players to play successful games.

The NFL would alternatively execution radical than travel their ain rules if they payment the Raiders. https://t.co/D0GVSoJfJh

— hman70 (@HunterRohles) December 29, 2021

@nfl virtually adjusting COVID protocols to marque definite the Raiders suffer to the Colts? Sure does look hinky aye? @gmfb

— Native Neanderthal (@VTRaiderBooster) December 29, 2021

So they changed the rules for the Colts and pushed backmost the crippled for the Browns erstwhile they some person Covid problems erstwhile they play The Raiders…The NFL conscionable loves to effort and screw the Raiders whenever they can.

— Hugo Stiglitz (@Stiglitz303) December 29, 2021

I agree- Every different squad with the objection of the browns request to play with 3rd and 4th stringers. Browns had their crippled moved- which didn’t work. As a raiders fan- the NFL has been against them since Al sued and won. Browns playing raiders- determination game. Colts- alteration COVID rule

— Snyder7 (@Snyder73) December 29, 2021

So present the raiders person to woody with perchance catching covid by doing their occupation due to the fact that Now NFL says it's good for covid + players (colts) to play..
So erstwhile the Raiders marque the playoffs volition they alteration the roles to support the Raiders from having our champion connected the tract 🤔
🖕🏽Goodell

— Travis (@559RAIDERTravis) December 29, 2021

2 weeks agone they moved the crippled for the browns aft expressly saying astatine the opening of the twelvemonth they would not bash that. Then this happens this week and nary I don’t deliberation it’s strictly to instrumentality it to the raiders but if there’s an opp to instrumentality it to the raiders the league does

— Nick Lecuyer (@RaidersNick215) December 28, 2021

I emotion however the @NFL changes the rules erstwhile they spot the raiders opponents commencement going down with Covid 😂😂

— MonsterRaider (@MonsterRaider8) December 28, 2021

Hope Jonathan Taylor gets a symptomatic covid Saturday conscionable successful clip to screw the colts. Nfl ever giving favors to Raiders opponents. Last twelvemonth they decimated our playoff chances during the colts game. I’m implicit it and it’s clip these teams get immoderate of the karma they got coming

— Christ (@Christ08637202) December 28, 2021

The @NFL hates Covid but hates the Raiders much wow.

— 𝐑𝐮𝐛𝐞𝐧 (@Raider_Rue) December 28, 2021

But not each fans are buying into this conspiracy mentation that the NFL has thing amended to bash than to sabotage the Raiders. The caller rules besides enactment the Raiders successful a amended presumption to get a fig of cardinal players backmost successful clip for Sunday’s game, including 7 antiaircraft players who tested affirmative for COVID-19 earlier this week.

They were pursuing the guidelines enactment successful spot by the national government. The national authorities changed its guidelines, truthful the nfl stated the followed suit. It’s not similar the nfl knew this alteration would hap astatine the extremity of the regular season. Raiders person 5 to colts 11 w covid

— atomicbombastic (@atomicbombast1c) December 29, 2021

Absolutely. The determination had thing to bash with Raiders. The CDC changed the guidelines to 5 days. NFL followed. 106 players were connected COVID list.

— Richard Savery (@Luckette808) December 29, 2021

I’m definite the Colts concern was archetypal and foremost connected the CDC’s caput erstwhile the caller guidelines were introduced…said nary rational idiosyncratic ever!

— Hack18 (@dpbrumley) December 29, 2021

NFL convincing CDC to alteration their quarantine guidelines conscionable successful lawsuit the Raiders wk17 hostile had a Covid outbreak and was down their starting QB seems similar a stretch, no? How does the Raiders perchance losing a crippled they were already penciled successful to suffer propulsion Davis to sell?

— Matt Taylor (@bigcheezy) December 28, 2021

You deliberation this league wide alteration was made strictly to instrumentality it to the Raiders and had thing to bash with the information that Covid was affecting the merchandise they were putting connected the field? CDC made a alteration and the NFL pounced.

— Law Bish (@Law_Bish) December 28, 2021

It's not to accommodate immoderate peculiar person…It's for the full batch of @NFL players. ANY TEAM would alternatively person determination players backmost quicker. I mean, u a Raiders fan. Y'all got each LB connected y'alls roster retired w COVID. So bash u not privation them back?

— terrynance124@yahoo.com (@terrynance124) December 28, 2021

What bash you think? Are Raiders fans overreacting oregon is the NFL retired to get the Silver and Black?

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