The Daily Briefing

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH CHICAGO A twitter thread from Johnathan Wood of DaBearsBlog: THREAD   It’s really remarkable that Ryan Pace learned absolutely nothing from how badly he mismanaged Mitchell Trubisky through the first year of his career. He literally repeated every single mistake with Justin Fields.   Let’s recap…   1)…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH CHICAGO The hiring of Matt Eberflus was orchestrated by Bill Polian and endorsed by Tony Dungy.  Adam Jahns of The Athletic: From the back of the room, Buccaneers coach Tony Dungy watched star defensive lineman Warren Sapp argue with defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin and his position coach Rod…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The NFL has turned to a big gun in the social justice game to defend itself from the attacks of Brian Flores and his attorneys.  Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com: The NFL faces a significant and historic lawsuit from former Dolphins coach Brian Flores. It has hired a former United States…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH   MINNESOTA Not so fast with Kevin O’Connell.  Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com: The Super Bowl ended on Sunday night, if you haven’t heard. Since the confetti fell, we’ve heard nothing about the Vikings hiring Rams offensive coordinator Kevin O’Connell to be the team’s next head coach.   Four…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Hail to the Rams – a worthy champion. Although, we feel compelled to point out that the 2021 playoffs revealed the closest level of differentiation between the best and the also rans that we can remember. None of the final seven games had a margin of more than 3 points…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Here is our pre-Super Bowl addition. First off, we are going with the Bengals as our pick.  We know the argument that the Rams will sack QB JOE BURROW into oblivion – but we think he is a special QB on a special mission and his opponent, MATTHEW STAFFORD, who…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Peter King: With Miami’s appointment of San Francisco offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel as head coach Sunday night, only New Orleans and Houston have vacancies remaining. So far, six of the seven head-coach hires have come from the offensive side of the ball. McDaniel, 38, is multiracial, so he becomes the…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH   MINNESOTA Here is how upstart Kevin O’Connell took down Jim Harbaugh (and two other finalists) for the Vikings head coach position.  Chad Graff and Jon Krawczynski of The Athletic: After newly hired general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah joined the organization two weeks ago, the coaching search had shifted…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH CHICAGO Adam Jahns of The Athletic on how the Bears came to hire the team of GM Ryan Poles and Coach Matt Eberflus: Matt Eberflus called his 80-year-old mother, Joanne, and couldn’t get the words he wanted to share out completely. He was at home in Indiana; she…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing On Tuesday evening, Brian Flores, mysteriously deposed as coach of the Dolphins and unable to find traction on a new head coaching job, filed a class action suit alleging racism in NFL hiring practices, especially by the Broncos and Giants – as well as in its firing practices. In 2019,…