The brand new NFL rules for The Sickness have arrived Goat approved.

Tom Brady was asked if he agrees with the new protocols that ended weekly testing of asymptomatic, fully vaccinated players. And that subsequently means there will be players on the field playing with COVID but unaware of it — or those aware and not telling anyone.

“I was all for it. You know, I was absolutely all for it,” Brady said on SiriusXM Mad Dog Radio. “I feel like, you know, the players who have done everything right to put themselves in a position to play every week and then to get knocked out being asymptomatic with, you know, understanding there’s zero risk of spreading it during a game makes no sense. So that’s pretty much well proved and documented over the last year and a half, so there’s absolutely an opportunity for us to get [COVID] whether we’re playing football or not. So I’m just happy we’re out there playing football.”

And there you go. Brady has spoken: You can get COVID anywhere so you might as well play football.

((Joe has closed the reader comments here because of the legions of annoying folks who can’t stop turning every COVID reference into a political discussion or an amateur hour medical documentary. This is a football man talking about a new NFL rule, not your vaccine chat room.))