The Rush: Goodell angers NFL personnel with efforts to silence Draft concerns

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March 30, 2020 at 11:42 PM

The IOC announced that the 2020 Tokyo Games will begin in July 2021, NFL personnel are reportedly unhappy with a memo Roger Goodell sent teams requesting they keep concerns about the upcoming Draft from going public, Donald Trump reportedly reached out to Jennifer Lopez’s fiancé Alex Rodriguez for feedback on the President’s response to COVID-19, and get your March Madness bracket fix at Yahoo Sports as you can help us decide the greatest team and the best movie athlete of all time.

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- Here comes Usain Bolt. He has the [INAUDIBLE]. And Usain Bolt is moving away. Can Jamaica retain their title?

JARED QUAY: The International Olympic Committee announced that the 2020 Summer Games will be held July 23 through August 8 of 2021. And while that answers one question, it leaves a bunch of others unanswered. Will the athletes need to re-qualify? Will these dates conflict with the NBA's new season? Did Britney Spears really run a five-second 100 meter dash like she posted over the weekend?

- It's definitely a no for me, dawg.

JARED QUAY: Actually, I can answer of them myself. The last one, no [BLEEP] way.

In terms of worrying about the pandemic, if the IOC is on one end of the spectrum, then the other end is the NFL.

- What? What now?

JARED QUAY: Despite mounting pressure, Commissioner Roger Goodell insists the draft will continue remotely as scheduled. Even the Hall of Fame running back Terrell Davis thinks the league should reconsider, because teams need to see their prospects in the flesh.

TERRELL DAVIS: You still want to give these GMs and owners and coaches a chance to do their due diligence and have the complete package when they have to make that investment in a player.

JARED QUAY: Goodell is so stuck on these dates that he sent a memo to teams warning them to not voice any concerns publicly. And reportedly, that infuriated some team personnel.

- Duh.

JARED QUAY: And look, I get it. Employees are worried about their own safety, while their boss is trying to pretend it's business as usual.

In a related story, over the weekend, President Trump reportedly reached out to an expert for feedback on his response to the pandemic. The bad news is that expert is Alex Rodriguez, A-Rod, whose only area of expertise is hitting a baseball while juiced out of his mind.

- Public relations train wreck.

JARED QUAY: This might sound like a plot for a bad movie. It's not. But if bad movies are your thing, well, then we got a thing for you. Yahoo Sports is trying to figure out the greatest fictional sports movie character of all time. And if you want to weigh in on Ray Allen in "He Got Game" versus Hilary Swank in "Million Dollar Baby," or Keanu in "The Replacements" versus Jamie Foxx in "Any Given Sunday," they hit up Yahoo Sports' Instagram stories and vote now.

But if that bracket doesn't do it for you, try this one. Who's your pick for the greatest team of all time across all major sports? Get to the internet website yahoosports.com and help us pick a winner.

You know what we need to do? We need to do a bracket of brackets. We need to figure out what's the greatest bracket of all time. Is it March Madness? Obviously number one. But what about tax brackets? What about brackets you hang on your wall for plants? Or what about brackets? I'm talking about parentheses, like math brackets. They got a bunch of brackets.

You know what? I'm about to go on Google and figure out brackets. I'm going to do a whole bracket about which bracket is the best bracket.

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