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What happens to player contracts if the Falcons can’t play this season?

The notion that a global pandemic can, in fact, stop an NFL season resonates more and more each day. There’s an endless list of things that can (and will) go wrong if professional football games are player this fall. That said, the NFL apparently hasn’t gotten the memo yet; and they continue to piece together various perceived remedies, hoping they’ll be ready to play games when the time comes.

From scratching the first and fourth preseason games to the possibility of a 16 player practice squad, it should shock no one that the NFL is pulling out all the stops in an attempt to make this thing happen.