If Kirk Herbstreit is right about NFL 2020 season, can LA Rams handle it?

The LA Rams have had a slow start to the 2020 NFL offseason. Would the Rams benefit by Kirk Herbstreit thought that NFL may not have 2020 season?

The LA Rams have struggled to find a good footing so far in the 2020 offseason. Everyone understood that the Rams would be hard-pressed to compete in bidding wars for veteran free agents this year. So fans braced for the realization that some players would not be back for the 2020 NFL season.

But what if there will be no 2020 NFL season?  That is the fear of ESPN’s broadcaster Kirk Herbstreit right now, and a fear he has shared via an interview with TMZ.com.

As Herbstreit points out, the current strategies of self-quarantine, stay-at-home, and social distancing are only measures to slow down the spread of the current COVID-19 disease.  There is currently no available cure. And with its very contagious nature, an outbreak is simply one large social gathering away.

"“Just because from what I understand, people that I listen to, you’re 12 to 18 months from a [coronavirus] vaccine. I don’t know how you let these guys go into locker rooms and let stadiums be filled up and how you can play ball. I just don’t know how you can do it with the optics of it.” – Kirk Herbstreit via TMZ.com"

In Herbstreit’s scenario, the NFL simply doesn’t risk filling a stadium or lockerroom and shuts down the league for a year.

That action would provide time as medical science develops a vaccination or even cure for COVID-19. So far, the NFL has been steady-as-she-goes, with no delays planned for the 2020 NFL Draft.  Of course, there were rumors at the possibility of delaying the draft. Instead, the NFL decided to make the 2020 NFL Draft a studio event and merely eliminate audiences and NFL team staff.