The Baltimore staff was buzzing on the field pregame when some fairly stunning news came back. It was news that, even by 2020 standards, qualified as unprecedented. The immediate reaction from the coaches was interesting and twofold.
First, there was talk of the cruel irony of the situation, that Dez Bryant was the one who returned a positive COVID-19 test from Tuesday morning, and how a confluence of events—mostly the game’s being delayed and the Ravens’ proximity to the lab that processes the tests—had come together to take him off the field for a matchup against, of all teams, the Cowboys.