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Column: Time for NFL players, coaches to mask up or go home

At first blush it doesn't make a lot of sense to force NFL coaches to mask up on the sidelines when dozens of players with no similar virus protection are crashing into each other nearby.

That's what Jon Gruden and Sean Payton must have been thinking when they coached on national television with their masks pulled down. Both made a conscious decision to violate league rules, with little regard to the bad optics involved.

Raiders quarterback Derek Carr and a few teammates made that same decision when they went into an overcrowded room at a country club earlier this week without masks.