The Daily Briefing

THE DAILY BRIEFING NFC NORTH DETROIT Seth Walder of ESPN.com thinks the Lions should be looking for a competent back-up and envisions a deal for QB TAYLOR HEINICKE: Lions get QB insurance with Heinicke   Lions receive: QB Taylor Heinicke Falcons receive: 2025 seventh-round pick   As soon as the Falcons used the No. 8…

THE DAILY BRIEFING NFC NORTH DETROIT CB EMMANUEL MOSELEY will be out for quite a while, maybe all season.  Michael David Smith of ProFootballTalk.com: Lions cornerback Emmanuel Moseley suffered a serious injury on the practice field.   Moseley has a torn pectoral muscle and is out indefinitely, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN.   A…

THE DAILY BRIEFING NFC NORTH DETROIT They may have swagger, but the 2024 Detroit Lions are still working hard says Dan Graziano of ESPN.com: The last time I visited Lions training camp was 2021, the first year that coach Dan Campbell and GM Brad Holmes were in Detroit. Things were… different back then. The Lions…

THE DAILY BRIEFING The first game of the season is not really in the books – it was called off by summer weather in the third period.  Here’s a report on the new kickoff rule’s debut from Courtney Cronin of ESPN.com: The first two kickoff returns under the NFL’s new rules looked a lot like…

THE DAILY BRIEFING The NFL will test technology vs. the old fashioned chain gang in determining first downs in some preseason games.  Frank Schwab of YahooSports.com on the pluses and minuses of Sony Hawk-Eye technology: The NFL’s movement toward measuring first downs with technology instead of the traditional chain gang doesn’t fix everything, but it’s…

THE DAILY BRIEFING We are a bit abbreviated today with a commitment for the rest of the day and the time spent making the Hall of Fame case for someone excluded by ESPN’s Bill Barnwell in his opus on the next 10 Hall of Fame classes (see below). Full coverage tomorrow. NFC NORTH CHICAGO No…

THE DAILY BRIEFING Charles Robinson of YahooSports.com points out that three huge contracts have recently been awarded to QBs with very incomplete resumes: The contracts of Jordan Love, Tua Tagovailoa and Trevor Lawrence have some people scratching their heads.   Let’s take this one-by-one, starting with Love, who recently became the NFL’s highest-paid quarterback with…

THE DAILY BRIEFING Are these the best QBs in the NFL?  Probably not, but with QB Contract Roulette, they are now the highest paid.  This from CBSSports.com in the aftermath of new contracts for Green Bay’s JORDAN LOVE and Miami’s TUA TAGOVIALOA: Tua Tagovailoa and Jordan Love became much wealthier individuals on Friday. The Miami…

THE DAILY BRIEFING NFC NORTH CHICAGO Kalyne Kahler of ESPN.com on the personality re-boot from Bears coach Matt Eberflus: Matt Eberflus panicked. He looked down at the barber’s cape and saw several inches of his wet hair clinging to the navy fabric.   “Funk, that seems like a lot off.”   “Don’t worry about it,”…

THE DAILY BRIEFING Keep an eye out for the new-look Guardian Caps to make it into NFL games this season.  Mike Florio on some news out of Chargers camp: Last year, as the NFL touted the safety enhancements of Guardian Caps, the league wasn’t willing to allow players to wear them during games. Several months…