Patriots’ Jason McCourty Voices Concern For Season Amid Pandemic

Patriots veteran cornerback Jason McCourty will enter his 12^th year in the league. The veteran has spent a lot of time in the league and he knows how things work. NFL teams will enter a challenging season. Jason McCourty is really worried about the course of the regular season due to the coronavirus pandemic.

A group of Patriots players will report to the facility Monday for their COVID-19 testing. What does McCourty say about this? He is not optimistic at all. According to him, there’s not much room for optimism.

“I’m not going to lie, for me as a fellow player, I go on social media and it makes me very nervous to think there will be a season,” he said Sunday night on the Double Coverage podcast he runs with his twin brother Devin.

“Because I’ve seen guys posting a video in a nightclub, and it’s just like, ‘Yo, we’re attempting to play football. That’s not going to be OK.’ You see guys working out in one city on a Monday, working out in another city on a Tuesday, and another city the next week, and it’s just like, ‘Dang, if they’re working out here, here and here, that means you have to be traveling and you come across however many people.’ Or you see a guy posting pictures and there’s hundreds of [people], whether it’s anywhere. So for me, it is nerve-wracking.”

Jason McCourty has a good reason to be worried about the coronavirus pandemic

The 32-year-old veteran is not usually a pesimist. But, he got really concerned after the Miami Marlins had their home opener against the Baltimore Orioles postponed. Several players tested positive for coronavirus, and the situation doesn’t look good at all.

Major League Baseball will try to complete the upcoming season outside a bubble.

“Those are the things that for me, make it nervous to say, ‘Are we going to be able to have an entire season?’” Jason said. “Because of small things like that that go a long way … it only takes one person testing positive, you come into the building, and that thing will spread like wildfire.”

He entered the league as a sixth-round pick of the Tennessee Titans in 2009. He spent seven years with the team and then joined the Cleveland Browns in 2017. Jason became a Patriot in 2018.

The McCourty twin played football at Rutgers. The team stopped every activity and players are in quarantine after six of them tested positive.