06-17-2021, 08:34 AM
Heard on the "Hear that Podcast Growlin" podcast that the Bengals were like most of the league and right around 50% vaccinated when Taylor came up with this "incentive". Now the Bengals are approaching the 85% threshold where it would allow teams to have in-person meetings. Jesse Bates has been very outspoken as to how important he feels that would be for the team.
The last day of the mini-camp is a glorified walk-through (literally, walk) and they always let guys out early to get to their flights. So, exchanging one day of mini-camp for getting close to that 85% (they had someone on-site, which is really smart) could end up giving the Bengals a real advantage over other NFL teams. Plus, they had 100% attendance in voluntary OTAs, and had everyone here in town for three weeks.
Once that was explained to me, I was very pleased with the idea.
Everyone thinking they have so much time to get vaccinated need to consider the schedule of vaccination: Dose 1, followed by 3-4 weeks (depending on the vaccine you get), then dose 2, then 2 weeks until you are considered "vaccinated".
The last day of the mini-camp is a glorified walk-through (literally, walk) and they always let guys out early to get to their flights. So, exchanging one day of mini-camp for getting close to that 85% (they had someone on-site, which is really smart) could end up giving the Bengals a real advantage over other NFL teams. Plus, they had 100% attendance in voluntary OTAs, and had everyone here in town for three weeks.
Once that was explained to me, I was very pleased with the idea.
Everyone thinking they have so much time to get vaccinated need to consider the schedule of vaccination: Dose 1, followed by 3-4 weeks (depending on the vaccine you get), then dose 2, then 2 weeks until you are considered "vaccinated".
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