Daily Briefing

The Daily Briefing Friday, October 19, 2018 AROUND THE NFL  You think 2018 is big?  You ain’t seen nothing yet as the NFL gets ready to pull out all the stops for its 100th season next year.   The NFL will be celebrating its 100th season in 2019, and the league officially revealed the logo that…

The Daily Briefing Thursday, October 18, 2018 AROUND THE NFL  Chris Wesseling of NFL.com with a list of players making a push for big contracts.  The whole thing is here.    Edited version below:   Striking gold in the free-agent market can accelerate — or even eliminate — the rebuilding process for NFL franchises.   The Chicago…

The Daily Briefing Wednesday, October 17, 2018 AROUND THE NFL  The NFL’s Fall Meeting does not have as much angst as last year according to Jenny Vrentas of TheMMQB.com:   At this time last year, the NFL’s fall league meetings were chaotic and controversial. When owners and club representatives gathered in lower Manhattan in October 2017,…

The Daily Briefing Tuesday, October 16, 2018 AROUND THE NFL  If The Season Ended Today – in the NFC, the Rams and Saints have drawn ahead in the conference standings with the NFC North and NFC East both up for grabs unless you are the Giants.   NFC                                                          Div             Conf Los Angeles Rams      West      6-0          2-0             …

The Daily Briefing Monday, October 15, 2018 AROUND THE NFL  If The Season Ended Today in the AFC:                                                                 Div            Conf Kansas City                 West    5-1           2-0             4-1 New England               East    4-2            1-0             4-1  Cincinnati                    North   4-2            1-1             3-1 Tennessee                  South   3-3           2-0             2-3  LA Chargers                WC      4-2            1-1           …

The Daily Briefing Thursday, October 11, 2018 AROUND THE NFL  Could the Giants, who picked 2nd last year, get the 1st overall pick in 2019?  Ryan Wilson of CBSSports.com has a projection that says yep:   Pick 1            New York Giants (1-4) 2            Indianapolis (1-4) 3            Oakland (1-4) 4            San Francisco (1-4) 5            Arizona (1-4) 6           …

The Daily Briefing Wednesday, October 10, 2018 AROUND THE NFL  Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com on the NFL’s passing explosion:   At one point in the life cycle of this media outlet, we’d periodically keep track of which quarterbacks were on the wrong side of the Kordoza Line — the career 70.7 passer rating of mostly-mediocre-with-flashes-of-really-good quarterback…

The Daily Briefing Tuesday, October 9, 2018 AROUND THE NFL  If The Season Ended Today – in the NFC, the Buccaneers slipped back into the playoffs while sitting around on the bye week.  Also on bye, the Bears fell behind New Orleans.   The NFC East is kind of a mess with no team over .500. …

The Daily Briefing Monday, October 8, 2018 AROUND THE NFL  If The Season Ended Today – in the AFC   It was a big week for the Patriots and Chargers as they won and Tennessee, Baltimore, Miami, Jacksonville and Denver all lost:                                                                   Div            Conf Kansas City                 West    5-0           2-0             4-0 Cincinnati                   …

The Daily Briefing Friday, October 5, 2018 AROUND THE NFL  Not everyone will keep up the pace or even play all 16 games, but 10 franchise season passing records are in danger of falling.  This ESPN graphic:   Ten quarterbacks are on pace to break their franchise single-season passing yards record. Four are on pace to…

The Daily Briefing Thursday, October 4, 2018 AROUND THE NFL  Albert Breer of TheMMQB.com breaks down six reasons the NFL is an Offensive Fiesta in 2018:   When Jared Goff’s plant foot hit grass at the bottom of his drop with 1:30 left in the first half last Thursday, there were eight Viking defenders within 10…

The Daily Briefing Wednesday, October 3, 2018 AROUND THE NFL  NFC NORTH   MINNESOTA NFL Justice has fined a pair of Vikings for plays in the big loss to the Bills.  Chris Thomasson of the St. Paul Pioneer-Press:   Vikings defensive stalwarts Anthony Barr and Linval Joseph both have been fined by the NFL.   Barr,…