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NFL, Packers hope for full, uninterrupted 2020 season, but as Mark Murphy knows, ‘Hope is not a strategy’

GREEN BAY — Mark Murphy is being as pragmatic as he can.

The Green Bay Packers' president/CEO is looking forward to the NFL’s 2020 full season schedule being released later this week, but he knows no matter how much he and the rest of the league hope the games will be played on time and with fans in the stands, there’s no guarantee that’ll happen in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic that has turned not just the sports world but the globe upside-down.

“I obviously hope that we are able to play the entire season as scheduled.