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AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Peter King with some draft mechanics:   NFL HQ. Each year, the NFL’s VP of player personnel, Ken Fiore, is at the head table of the draft, on site, supervising the mechanics of the draft and accepting and confirming trades between the teams. This year, Fiore will do it from…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Are sports fans really waiting on a vaccine before they go back to a game?  A poll wants you to believe that.  Kelly Cohen of ESPN.com:   The sports world has been at a standstill due to the coronavirus pandemic for roughly a month, and despite the widespread eagerness to…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFLers are balking at invading fellow employees homes/having fellow employees invade their homes in preparation for the virtual draft.  Adam Schefter is fear rumormongering as reported by Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com:   It’s not quite carnage in the streets, but there’s a concern regarding the presence of IT workers in…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFL players have billions of reasons to hope that those in power allow them to play.  Matt Johnson of Sportsnaut.com:   The COVID-19 pandemic has largely brought professional sports to a halt with the NBA and MLB suspending their seasons. As the NFL weighs the potential impact the ongoing crisis…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing It’s been just three and a half weeks since the powers that be deemed a national lockdown was required to battle CoVid.    Now, even as the plague is falling far, far short of “expert” models in most states and the curve may be bending, the NFL is among those…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com, a hardline wait for Dr. Fauci’s vaccine guy, seems to take the side that a lockdown is harder to end than it was to impose.   The President conducted a conference call with sports commissioners on Saturday, and as to one sport in particular he expressed…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The population of the United Kingdom is 66 million.  So far, about 3,000 people have perished there from CoVid19.  There have been about 35,000 reported cases.   So, 0.05%, that’s 1/20th of 1 percent of the total population have had a case of CoVid19.  0.004% of the population has died. …

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The NFL is counting on victory in the war against CoVID19/Wuhan Virus.  Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com seems less convinced:   At a time when the entire American sports industry is shut down (with very limited exceptions) due to the coronavirus pandemic, the NFL intends to not lose 2020 regular-season games…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Peter King on the remote NFL Draft:   The other day, I was told that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell could kick off the 2020 NFL Draft in 24 days from a remote-controlled camera in his home in Bronxville, N.Y., a village 15 miles north of NFL headquarters in Manhattan. But,…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Mike Florio offers this scary thought.   As the reality of life amid the coronavirus pandemic continues to sink in, the NFL needs to be sinking its teeth into the reality that a normal football season won’t happen this year.   Given the predictions and projections for the ongoing spread…