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Party's over: 2020 NFL season rests on players' commitment to a less lavish lifestyle

Every NFL team has an offensive coordinator. Every team has a defensive coordinator.

Do they need a nightlife coordinator?

Welcome to the 2020 season, where the pandemic hangs over everything. The NFL knows one of the keys to keeping the schedule, and the billions that go with it, is minimizing the need to quarantine players who test positive for the coronavirus and, more dramatically, preventing spikes across rosters.

Losing a player or two for a couple of weeks is bad enough. If positive cases hit a roster hard enough, the games might need to be postponed or canceled, and the entire effort is subject to collapse.