An amazing NFL crime story, with a recent number one pick among two active NFL players being sought by Florida police.  Charean Williams of NFL.com: The Miramar, Florida, police department announced on social media it has issued arrest warrants for Giants cornerback Deandre Baker and Seahawks cornerback Quinton Dunbar.   Baker faces four counts of armed robbery with a firearm and four counts of aggravated assault with a firearm. Dunbar faces four counts of armed robbery with a firearm.   The players attended a party at a private residence Wednesday night when an argument ensued, and Baker drew a semi-automatic firearm, according to the arrest affidavit. With Baker directing, Dunbar helped collect more than $11,000 in cash, an $18,000 Rolex watch, a $25,000 Hublot watch, a $17,500 Audemars Piguet watch and other valuables from partygoers.   At one point, Baker ordered another armed man in a red mask to shoot someone who walked into the party. The armed man did not comply. There are conflicting witness statements about whether Dunbar had a gun or not.   Vehicles were pre-positioned to expedite an immediate exit.   Baker and Dunbar “lost” about $70,000 two nights earlier at a different party in Miami, and TMZ.comreports the losses were from gambling.   The NFL and Giants both said they were aware of the matter, per NFL Media.   Baker, 22, started 15 games after the Giants made him the 30th overall selection in 2019. Dunbar, 27, started 11 games in his fifth NFL season in 2019.   Washington traded Dunbar to Seattle in March, and he participated in a conference call with Seahawks beat reporters earlier Thursday before news of the arrest warrant broke. Note that last paragraph.  Armed crime on Wednesday night for Dunbar, he still kept his media appointment on Thursday like nothing had happened.  This is how FieldGulls.comreported the call before the news of the arrest warrants broke: Following the Seahawks’ acquisition of cornerback Quinton Dunbar in late March, it was assumed the former Washington corner would be penciled in opposite Shaquill Griffin, on the defense’s right side.   In a Thursday morning conference call with reporters, the newly acquired Dunbar confirmed as much, saying the expectation is for him to compete on the right side.   @bcondotta Quinton Dunbar on a Zoom call with Seahawks media says team plans to use him predominantly on the right side to start out. So yes, competing where Tre Flowers has been the starter the last two years.   Dunbar’s main competition, as Bob Condotta notes, will be Tre Flowers. The much-maligned third-year cornerback made that spot his own as a rookie and has kept hold of it through two up-and-down seasons. With Dunbar entering the fray, Flowers’ position will be challenged really for the first time—something that should be positive for both parties.   Though Dunbar didn’t say the slot is planned for him, that remains a possibility, as well. With experience playing inside and the traits to succeed in doing so, Seattle could start with Dunbar and Griffin on the outside, before sliding Dunbar inside with Flowers taking over on the right in nickel packages.   All of the hypothetical alignments, of course, hinge on whether or not Dunbar is able to pick up Pete Carroll’s preferred technique for cornerbacks—something that has proved to be a challenge for other newcomers in the past.   Dunbar was asked about that challenge, and he gave an excellent answer.   @byAlistairCorp Here’s Quinton Dunbar talking about his approach to picking up the kick-step in Seattle, and why he thinks other veteran cornerbacks have struggled to do it previouslyhttps://twitter.com/byAlistairCorp/status/1260962056502603776 …   @byAlistairCorp My two big takeaways from Quinton Dunbar’s conference call are: 1. He’s got an awesome mentality, I loved his answer to the kick step question. 2. I don’t think his expectation he’ll compete at RCB will preclude him from also being in the mix at nickel when camp opens

NFC NORTH

DETROIT For whatever reason, ProFootballTalk.com’s Mike Florio notes a new house on the market in LockedDown Michigan: Some scoffed when Patriots quarterback Tom Brady put his Boston house up for sale. They’re not scoffing now.   Will they scoff in response to the latest franchise quarterback with a For Sale in the front yard of his local home? Via Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press, Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford‘s Bloomfield Township home is on the market. The asking price? A mere $6.5 million.   The timeline here is fascinating. Stafford conducted a video conference with reporters on Thursday, at which time news of the house being for sale hadn’t emerged. The next morning, it has.   On Thursday, Stafford downplayed rumors and reports that the Lions were shopping him, which emerged out of nowhere in February.   “I really don’t pay too much attention to [the trade rumors],” Stafford said, via Birkett. “I pay less attention to them than my wife does. But it’s something that doesn’t bother me. Listen, I’m here, I want to be here. I love being a Detroit Lion, I love leading this team. All that kind of stuff is just out there to be out there. It’s a slow news month at that point and I’m just happy to be where I am and ready to deal with this offseason the way that it is and try to make the best of the season that I hope happens.”   While Stafford may have an explanation for his decision to sell his local home that meshes with his desire to remain with the Lions, it didn’t come up on Thursday because no one knew his house was for sale.   Stafford, per Birkett, also has homes in California and Georgia. When trade chatter first surfaced, his wife expressed an interest in having Matthew land with the Chargers. Now that they have added rookie Justin Herbert with the sixth overall pick in the draft, that’s likely not an option for 2021 or beyond.   Regardless of what it all means or doesn’t mean for Stafford’s tenure with the Lions, here’s something that makes the house even more attractive: It includes an indoor, half basketball court made from the Detroit Pistons’ floor when they played at the Silverdome. Prior to Michigan, Stafford spent his life in three Free States – Florida, Texas and Georgia.

NFC SOUTH

ATLANTA Like everyone else, Falcons OC Dirk Koetter is wondering what he has in RB TODD GURLEY.  D. Orlando Ledbetter of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Falcons offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter can’t wait to see running back Todd Gurley when teams can meet after the coronavirus pandemic restrictions are lifted.   The Falcons signed the former NFL offensive player of the year in free agency after he played five mostly spectacular seasons with the Rams. “He has had an unbelievable career and is a heck of a player,” Koetter said on a video conference call Thursday. “I think it’s also really fortunate for us that he’s coming from a really similar offensive system, terminology-wise. The run game is very similar conceptually to what they were doing in L.A.” Gurley was a fan favorite when he played at the University of Georgia. “I know from talking to Todd that he’s fired up to be coming back to Georgia,” Koetter said. “He can do everything. He’s an excellent running back. He can protect. The main question is that no one seems to know is, what’s his health status? What’s his workload?”   Koetter studied how the Rams used Gurley, who reportedly has an arthritic left knee, last season. “He averaged about 17 touches a game last year,” Koetter said. “Which is a little bit lower than he’d been when he was All-Pro. We are just going to have to find that out once he gets here. Get him up and running.”

NFC WEST

LOS ANGELES RAMS A sign of the times – one of the world’s wealthiest men needs cash to operate in LockDown California.  Daniel Kaplan of The Athletic: The Los Angeles Rams have requested up to $500 million in additional NFL stadium financing, and a doubling of the amount of time typically required to pay the money back, sources said. That would bring to as much as $900 million the club arranged to borrow from the league for SoFi Stadium.   The Rams’ planned shared venue with the L.A. Chargers is scheduled to open this summer, though whether it can do so in the midst of the pandemic is unclear. And if it does, the teams almost certainly will not play in front of fans, depriving the Rams of much-needed cash to pay down debt.   “There’s a massive request for debt waivers and additional G-4 from those in LA,” said one team source, referring to the NFL stadium lending program, known as G-4. “And they’re asking to pay that over 30 years as opposed to 15 years.”   The Rams deferred to the NFL, which declined to comment. The request is on the agenda for next week’s virtual owners meeting, a source said.   There are three issues driving the Rams’ request: cost overruns, less than expected personal seat license sales, and the prospect of a gut punch to gate revenue this fall.   When in January 2016 owners voted to approve the St. Louis Rams’ Inglewood, Calif. proposal, the price tag was then $2.2 billion (the Chargers a year later would trigger an option to share the venue). But the cost of the stadium, which includes a retail and entertainment district, rapidly escalated in part because of pricey earthquake mitigation measures. Reports have now pegged the cost at anywhere from $5 billion to $6 billion.   In 2018, the league agreed to waive its restrictive team debt limits, and allow the Rams to borrow $2.2 billion, in addition to a $400 million loan from the G-4 program. Half that G-4 loan belongs to the Chargers, so it is possible the new up to $500 million request is split with the Chargers as well. To borrow more money would require another NFL debt waiver.

AFC WEST

DENVER Mon Sep. 14           Tennessee Titans              10:10pm ET        ESPN Sun Sep. 20            at Pittsburgh Steelers          1:00pm ET        CBS Sun Sep. 27            Tampa Bay Buccaneers       4:25pm ET       FOX Thur Oct. 1              at New York Jets                  8:20pm ET       NFLN Sun Oct. 11             at New England Patriots      1:00pm ET        CBS Sun Oct. 18             Miami Dolphins                    4:05pm ET        CBS Sun Oct. 25             Kansas City Chiefs              4:25pm ET        CBS Sun Nov. 1              BYE Sun Nov. 8              at Atlanta Falcons                1:00pm ET        CBS Sun Nov. 15            at Las Vegas Raiders           4:05pm ET        CBS Sun Nov. 22            Los Angeles Chargers          4:05pm ET        CBS Sun Nov. 29            New Orleans Saints              4:05pm ET        FOX Sun Dec. 6                at Kansas City Chiefs          8:20pm ET         NBC Sun Dec. 13              at Carolina Panthers            1:00pm ET        CBS St/Sn Dec. 19/20       Buffalo Bills                          Time TBA ET St/Sn Dec. 27            at Los Angeles Chargers     Time TBA ET Sun Jan. 3                 Las Vegas Raiders               4:25pm ET       CBS SCHEDULE THOUGHTS Three primetime games including the late opener against Tennessee…The other two are on the road…Visiting Kansas City on a Sunday night in December looks to be ripe for a flex…Three two-game road trips, two two-game homestands…They play three AFC East foes before their first game with a team from their own AFC West…Two possible Saturday games.

KANSAS CITY Thur Sep. 10                 Houston Texans                       8:20pm ET            NBC Sun Sep. 20                  at Los Angeles Chargers          4:25pm ET            CBS Mon Sep. 28                 at Baltimore Ravens                 8:15pm ET            ESPN Sun Oct. 4                    New England Patriots               4:25pm ET            CBS Sun Oct. 11                  Las Vegas Raiders                   1:00pm ET             CBS Thur Oct. 15                 at Buffalo Bills                           8:20pm ET            FOX/NFLN/Amazon Sun Oct. 25                  at Denver Broncos                    4:25pm ET            CBS Sun Nov. 1                   New York Jets                           1:00pm ET            CBS Sun Nov. 8                   Carolina Panthers                      1:00pm ET           FOX Sun Nov. 15                 BYE Sun Nov. 22                 at Las Vegas Raiders                 8:20pm ET           NBC Sun Nov. 29                 at Tampa Bay Buccaneers         4:25pm ET           CBS Sun Dec. 6                   Denver Broncos                          8:20pm ET           NBC Sun Dec. 13                 at Miami Dolphins                       1:00pm ET            CBS Sun Dec. 20                 at New Orleans Saints                4:25pm ET           CBS Sun Dec. 27                 Atlanta Falcons                           1:00pm ET           FOX Sun Jan. 3                   Los Angeles Chargers                1:00pm ET           CBS SCHEDULE THOUGHTS They get the max five national games, but, as we said above, the Sunday night December 6 home game with Denver smells like a flex…On the other hand, we could see the next week’s game against a surprising Miami team replacing Steelers at Bills…KC is slated to be a featured 4:25 game for Nantz/Romo and their CBS crew no less than five times, including visits to Tampa Bay and New Orleans…The Chiefs get four two-game road trips…They have three trips to the Southeast in a four-week span starting on Thanksgiving week.

LAS VEGAS Sun Sep. 13              at Carolina Panthers             1:00pm ET         CBS Mon Sep. 21             New Orleans Saints               8:15pm ET        ABC/ESPN Sun Sep. 27             at New England Patriots         1:00pm ET        CBS Sun Oct. 4                Buffalo Bills                             4:25pm ET        CBS Sun Oct. 11              at Kansas City Chiefs              1:00pm ET        CBS Sun Oct. 18              BYE Sun Oct. 25              Tampa Bay Buccaneers          8:20pm ET        NBC Sun Nov. 1               at Cleveland Browns                1:00pm ET        FOX Sun Nov. 8               at Los Angeles Chargers          4:05pm ET       FOX Sun Nov. 15             Denver Broncos                       4:05pm ET        CBS Sun Nov. 22             Kansas City Chiefs                  8:20pm ET        NBC Sun Nov. 29             at Atlanta Falcons                    1:00pm ET        CBS Sun Dec. 6               at New York Jets                      1:00pm ET        CBS Sun Dec. 13             Indianapolis Colts                     4:05pm ET       CBS Thur Dec. 17            Los Angeles Chargers              8:20pm ET       FOX/NFLN/Amazon St/Sn Dec 26/27      Miami Dolphins                          Time TBA ET Sun Jan. 3                at Denver Broncos                     4:25pm ET      CBS SCHEDULE THOUGHTS Saints fans are the first to test out a game in Vegas on a Monday night…An odd FOX game on November 8 at the Los Angeles Chargers…The Raiders have a three-game homestand in December…Two possible cold weather games at NYJ and DEN…A robust four-game primetime allotment for Las Vegas, with all four at home!

LOS ANGELES CHARGERS Sun Sep. 13               at Cincinnati Bengals                4:05pm ET      CBS Sun Sep. 20               Kansas City Chiefs                   4:25pm ET      CBS Sun Sep. 27               Carolina Panthers                     4:05pm ET      CBS Sun Oct. 4                  at Tampa Bay Buccaneers       1:00pm ET       CBS Mon Oct. 12               at New Orleans Saints              8:15pm ET      ESPN Sun Oct. 18                New York Jets                          4:05pm ET       CBS Sun Oct. 25                at Miami Dolphins                     1:00pm ET       CBS Sun Nov. 1                 Jacksonville Jaguars                 4:05pm ET       CBS Sun Nov. 8                 Las Vegas Raiders                    4:05pm ET       FOX Sun Nov. 15               BYE Sun Nov. 22                at Denver Broncos                    4:05pm ET       CBS Sun Nov. 29                at Buffalo Bills                           1:00pm ET       CBS Sun Dec. 6                 New England Patriots                4:25pm ET        CBS Sun Dec. 13               Atlanta Falcons                          4:25pm ET       FOX Thur Dec. 17              at Las Vegas Raiders                 8:20pm ET     FOX/NFLN/Amazon St/Sn Dec. 26/27        Denver Broncos                         Time TBA ET Sun Jan. 3                  at Kansas City Chiefs                 1:00pm ET     CBS SCHEDULE THOUGHTS The Chargers might benefit the most if the NFL goes to empty stadiums…That is if they are allowed to play in LockDown LA (there have been under 3,000 deaths in the nation’s most populous state, but more than half of them are in LA)…The opener could be Justin Herbert and Joe Burrow, but the Chargers are talking strongly about committing to Tyrod Taylor for the early going…Two primetime games for the Bolts, both on the road.

AFC NORTH

PITTSBURGH GM Kevin Colbert, unlike Jay Glazer, is confident that QB BEN ROETHLISBERGER is doing what is necessary to play at a high level this fall.  Joe Rutter of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: FL insider Jay Glazer’s supposed joke about Ben Roethlisberger being “allergic” to offseason conditioning may have ruffled the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback, but it didn’t cause a stir in the organization’s front office.   General manager Kevin Colbert, in fact, did what he usually does when such controversial statements are made in the media.   He ignored it.   It took an interview Wednesday with Trib columnist Mark Madden of WXDX for Colbert to offer a response when asked about Glazer’s crack that Roethlisberger’s workout program consists of “one yoga session, playing golf and drinking some beer.”   “You see them, you hear them,” Colbert said, “but when you know what the truth is, you just kind of let it go.”   Glazer since has backed off from that criticism.   In short, Colbert has no issues with Roethlisberger’s offseason regimen – in this offseason when he is recovering from right elbow surgery or during a typical offseason when injuries are not a factor.   “I know where Ben is, where he’s been in his career, and I’ve never worried about his conditioning,” Colbert told Madden. “When he shows up at training camp, he’s ready to go. He knows how to prepare himself.”   And Colbert expects nothing to change for the two-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback in spite of the coronavirus pandemic that has eliminated team workouts, causing players to prepare for the season away from the team’s South Side facility.   “(Compared to) the amount of work he’s gotten in previous training camps, it will be different when we get in because he’ll be in a semi-rehab state,” Colbert said. “But we have no concerns about him and his physical conditioning.”   Roethlisberger will be entering his 17th season with the Steelers, and he’ll be returning from a year in which he played just six quarters before undergoing season-ending surgery. Roethlisberger is signed through the 2021 season.   “I know that he could easily walk away from this game as well, but he’s continuing to play it because I think he really wants to prove and do more,” Colbert said. “To me, the guy has Hall of Fame credentials as he stands today, but that’s not enough for him – and, to me, that’s a mark of greatness.” – – – Former Steeler James Harrison implies that bounties are part of Steelers culture, directed from the top.  Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com: In response to former Steelers linebacker James Harrison’s claim that Steelers coach Mike Tomlin gave Harrison “an envelope” after a $75,000 fine in 2010, the NFL has said “no comment,” Steelers president Art Rooney II has issued a statement denying the contention, and Harrison’s agent has tried to scrape toothpaste back into the tube. So far, Tomlin hasn’t said a word.   If Tomlin didn’t do it, he should say so. By not shouting it down, Tomlin invites speculation that Harrison, who was praising Tomlin not blowing the whistle on him, was telling the truth.   Frankly, it’s not a stretch to believe Harrison. The fine came at a time when the NFL was trying to change the culture of headhunting. Plenty of players, coaches, and executives didn’t like it. Tomlin thought Harrison’s hit was legal. Rooney thought it was legal. And Tomlin needs his players to not be thinking twice about legal hits being called illegal, or the Steelers will lose more games than they win.   Consider this: In 2011, the league office fined then-Steelers safety Ryan Clark $40,000 for an illegal helmet-to-helmet hit. Clark told reporters that Tomlin actually praised Clark for the hit during film review after the game in which it happened.   “This is something we watched in slow-mo as a team — as a team — to say, ‘If you’re gonna try to dislodge the ball from somebody, this is the way you should do it,” Clark said at the time. “This is the legal way you should do it.’”   Clark’s comments caught the attention of the league office, resulting in a meeting between the Commissioner, Tomlin, and Rooney.   This was 2011, a year after Tomlin supposedly gave Harrison “an envelope” after Harrison was fined for playing the game the way Tomlin wants (or at least wanted at the time) his players to play it. And it was several months before the Saints’ bounty scandal sent a clear message to all teams that envelopes to players for legal or illegal hits would spark major consequences.   It’s unclear when Tomlin finally got the message, but even after the bounty punishments were issued, Tomlin was publicly saying things that simply don’t mesh with the current mindset regarding the brutality of football.   “One of the reasons I work in the National Football League, I’m tired of the NCAA rules,” Tomlin said while being inducted into the William & Mary Hall of Fame in May 2012. “I am a win-at-all-costs kind of guy.  The NFL is just right for me, although I am not a bounty guy in any form or fashion. Any form or fashion. . . . What you’ve got to understand about the Pittsburgh Steelers is . . . I ain’t got to offer them anything.  Guys like James Harrison — they’ll do it for nothing.”   They’ll do it for nothing, but sometimes they’ll have money taken from their pockets for doing it. In those settings, is it crazy to think that the coach would replace the money that a player has lost for doing his job the way the coach wants him to do it?   None of this means that anything will come of this. If it happened two years ago, yes. For anything that happened before the bounty scandal, that hole has been plugged with cement and a “nothing to see here” sign has been nailed to a nearby tree.   But Harrison’s claims, if true, mesh with the broader mindset that many had as the league was working its way through a rocky transition that began with a 2009 Congressional inquiry, continued with the trio of big hits that happened on October 17, 2010 (Harrison’s hit was one of them), and culminated in a massive class action against the league for concealing from players the risks of repeated head trauma.

THIS AND THAT

BROADCAST NEWS Joe Buck on the sounds of NFL football in 2020 on FOX per Chris Mason ofMassLive.com: Whether fans are in the stands this fall or not, you’ll hear crowd noise on FOX’s NFL broadcasts.   Play-by-play man Joe Buck broke that news on Sirius XM’s Andy Cohen Live, saying the network is looking for ways to put virtual fans in the stands, too.   “It’s pretty much a done deal,” Buck said. “I think whoever is going to have to be really good at their job and be realistic with how a crowd would react depending on what just happened on the field. So it’s really important. And then on top of that… they’re looking at ways to put virtual fans in the stands, so when you see a wide shot it looks like the stadium is jam-pack and in fact it’ll be empty.” Buck had more on Twitter: @Buck There is no “traditional” take on this topic. It’s new territory. Hoping stadiums are full and all is normal. If not, then it’s a blank canvas. All networks will try to make it look and sound as normal as possible. It could lead to unprecedented, thrilling access. Who knows?   Amazing the headline doesn’t match what I said. Didn’t think that happened at places like SI. I’ve been saying for over a month, including on HBO in April, that some ambient crowd noise under a broadcast is a simple, necessary tool to normalize the viewing experience at home..   But Crowd reactions are an enormous piece of the TV puzzle. All reactions by a crowd are valuable and to be used – as far as I know. I use it as much as I can and still keep my job. Big moments like the Minn. Miracle are MADE on tv because of the crowd noise.   It doesn’t have to be over the top. But something has to be there. Contrary to the misleading headline at SI and other places – I said FOX is WORKING on virtual fans. They are working everyday on ANYTHING to make our shows the best on TV. That’s exciting to me, and I am thankful   Some ideas will work and some won’t. That’s the nature of WORKING on something. It’s uncharted water. It could be a very exciting time in network TV coverage. I can’t wait to see how it all plays out. Praying for a SAFE  return to a stadium near you for all involved. Joe Buck As Buck pointed out, Sam Farmer of the LA Times had something on this last week: I think these players feed off that a little bit, as corny as it sounds,” Buck said. “I sure as hell know the broadcast feeds off it. That’s just a constant noise that’s under our voices that, if you take it out of the equation, I just think it makes the broadcast flat.   “I have the crowd noise as loud as I can in my headset because I don’t want to over-talk. If people are at home experiencing crowd noise, it brings them into the stadium.”   Not everyone would advocate for simulated crowd noise.   “Could you do that? Yes. Is it the right thing? I don’t know,” said Supovitz, now president of New York-based Fast Traffic Events and Entertainment. “Every camera shot is going to show an empty stadium, so what’s the point in that? I think it makes it inauthentic, and the one thing about American football is its authenticity.”   NBC, for one, is investigating different technologies that could use crowd noise – piped into the broadcast, although not necessarily the actual stadium – generated remotely by fans. It’s been done before, one example being for a Tunisian soccer team that had to play in empty stadiums in 2013, when no public gatherings were allowed amid fears of violence.   Fans of the team used an app on their phones and other devices that allowed them to simulate claps, cheers and boos with a push of a button. Those collective sounds were pumped through speakers on the field for the players to hear.   “It would be authentic because it would be generated by viewers,” said Fred Gaudelli, executive producer of NBC’s “Sunday Night Football.” “We are in the early stages of trying to figure out how we could do that. … I like fan engagement and I like authenticity. There’s myriad problems that would have to be worked out and solved for that to happen, but that’s what we’re looking at right now.”   In order to prepare for games without crowds, Gaudelli and his crew have been studying broadcasts of NFL preseason and Alliance of American Football games “to try to get a sense of, hey, what’s going to have to change in terms of our coverage?”   In some cases, networks have used tighter camera shots and lower angles to avoid showing empty stands.   From the perspective of players, the lack of crowd noise might be strange but not entirely unfamiliar.   “I feel like players would adjust to that pretty well,” Rams tackle Andrew Whitworth said. “From an energy standpoint and for people working around it, it could be weird. But for us, scrimmages and practices we hold all the time. We practice for two hours. So when we go out in camp, once it shuts down to the public, that’s pretty similar to what we’re doing.”   In some ways, he said, it would level the playing field.   “You look at New Orleans and Seattle, and that home-field advantage has been significant for them,” Whitworth said. “Tough places to go in. Eliminate some of that, and that’s a massive thing.” David Tepper, owner of the Panthers, who play in a state somewhere between Free and LockDown hopes to have some fans in his stadium.  Langston Wertz, Jr. of the Charlotte Observer: Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper is optimistic the NFL will play games this season — with fewer fans than usual.   Appearing on CNBC Wednesday, Tepper said he thinks there will be enough COVID-19 tests available by the fall to make sure that players are safe. And he thinks fans, in some towns, could be in the stands to watch.   “There should be some amount of fans in the stadiums,” Tepper said “depending on what locale and where you are and what the local rules are.   Tepper did suggest that fans may have to wear face coverings at games. But he felt if people were comfortable flying that the league should make plans for some level of fan attendance at games this fall.   “You won’t be having full stadiums,” Tepper said, “but that doesn’t mean you can’t have some fans in the stadium, either.”   Tepper’s comments came one day after the California State Schools decided to keep its 23 campuses “largely closed” for the fall semester, which could affect athletics . Those schools include Fresno State and San Jose State, which are FBS members in Division I football.   On Wednesday, a University of California spokesperson told CNN that he didn’t expect any of its campuses to fully re-open this fall. The University of California has 10 campuses in the state, including UCLA, Cal, San Francisco and Santa Barbara.   The NFL, which still hopes to have a full 17-week regular-season beginning this fall has three teams in California — the Chargers, the 49ers and the Rams. The league informed teams Wednesday that it would extend its virtual offseason until the end of May, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. It was originally scheduled to end Friday.   NFL insider Ian Rappaport said teams are preparing contingency plans for training camps in July, including using the Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia as well as college sites and possibly relocating camps to Nevada and Arizona.