Getty Image
The Buffalo Bills may have a locker room issue when it comes to vaccines.
On Thursday the NFL revealed via a memo that teams may be forced to forfeit “if a game cannot be rescheduled during the 18-week schedule due to a COVID-19 outbreak among unvaccinated players, the team with the outbreak will be credited with a loss.”
The NFL’s memo sparked plenty of debate among current NFL players and former players. On Thursday, Bills’ defensive end Jerry Hughes Jr. got into a back and forth with former NFL safety Darius Butler over the league’s new vaccine rules.
The @NFL is dead ass wrong w/ that new memo they sent out to teams today. What’s new tho!? Basically forcing these needles into players arms at this point. Every player/personnel should have an ACTUAL “choice” in the matter. They are sending a CLEAR message today.
— Darius Butler (@DariusJButler) July 22, 2021
I agree with you. I’m also of the crazy thought that some medical decisions are…SELFISH. It’s a vaccine that absolutely no one has more than a year worth ACTUAL research on. I should take it not because I’m comfortable with it but because…?
— Darius Butler (@DariusJButler) July 22, 2021
Sooo the top scientists in the entire world got together to figure out how to combat Covid-19. And when they came up with a vaccine, you question them. They are trying to save lives and you have doubt😳😳
— Jerry hughes Jr (@Iam_jerryhughes) July 23, 2021
some ppl have an underlying health conditions, so they are at risk if an outbreak happens.🤷♂️ Wait but Apple is just 1 company, Not all the tech companies in the world🤷♂️…
— Jerry hughes Jr (@Iam_jerryhughes) July 23, 2021
Outspoken Bills wide receiver Cole Beasley, who has stated that he will not get vaccinated, chimed in to argue about vaccines with his teammate.
Jerry so if a vaccinated player gives an unvaccinated player with underlying conditions covid it’s cool though? And the player with underlying conditions gets blamed for it. From minority to the majority now the minorities don’t matter? https://t.co/sJC1ec0DC1
— Cole Beasley (@Bease11) July 23, 2021
Update: Hughes responded to Beasley’s tweet.
You would think someone with underlying health conditions Would get the vaccine to prevent future complications if they got Covid. Now I understand freedom of choice. But our job has put rules in place. Rules are rules.
— Jerry hughes Jr (@Iam_jerryhughes) July 23, 2021
But at the end of the day rules are rules. There are a lot of rules I don’t agree with but I have to abide by if I wanna stay out of trouble🤷♂️.
— Jerry hughes Jr (@Iam_jerryhughes) July 23, 2021
U my boy no matter what. I’m not telling u what’s right/wrong. And I’m not the one making the rules, I’m just following them so I can play ball & finish what we started last year with the mafia cheering us on. Fun debate bro
— Jerry hughes Jr (@Iam_jerryhughes) July 23, 2021