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Daily Briefing Chris Myers around the NFL. Covering all NFL games, pre-games and post-games. Keep up to date with all the daily briefings below.
The Daily Briefing Tuesday, August 22, 2017
The Daily Briefing Tuesday, August 22, 2017 AROUND THE NFL Ben Volin of The Boston Globe says that business concerns are trumping the opinions of fans and players as the NFL moves ahead with extending Roger Goodell: Roger Goodell doesn’t exactly have the highest Q score among NFL fans. Patriots fans hate…
Read More The Daily Briefing Monday, August 21, 2017
The Daily Briefing Monday, August 21, 2017 AROUND THE NFL It looks like Roger Goodell will be under contract to be The Commish for seven more years. Conor Orr at NFL.com: The NFL is close to finalizing a deal that would extend the tenure of commissioner Roger Goodell through the 2024 season, NFL…
Read More The Daily Briefing Thursday, August 17, 2017
The Daily Briefing Thursday, August 17, 2017 Seahawks DT MICHAEL BENNETT calls on some of his white playing brethren to disrespect the Anthem/join in social protest. Darin Gantt at ProFootballTalk.com: Michael Bennett has been the most outspoken of late, among the players protesting during the national anthem by sitting or raising a fist. …
Read More The Daily Briefing Monday, August 14, 2017
The Daily Briefing Monday, August 14, 2017 Peter King breaks down the big trades made by the Rams, Eagles and Bills: “We researched trades at this time of year,” Buffalo general manager Brandon Beane said Sunday afternoon, “and there’s aren’t many like this.” Trades for picks, the Bills’ GM meant. There was Sam Bradford…
Read More The Daily Briefing Thursday, August 10, 2017
The Daily Briefing Thursday, August 10, 2017 After negotiations with the official’s union, the NFL has an agreement to hire 24 “full-time” officials. Kevin Seifert of ESPN.com: The NFL and NFL Referees Association agreed Wednesday to convert up to 24 of its game officials to full-time status for the 2017 season, an important step…
Read More The Daily Briefing Wednesday, August 9, 2017
The Daily Briefing Wednesday, August 9, 2017 A fancy simulation from FootballOutsiders yields the top 15 candidates to make the postseason: The following table shows the 15 teams with the strongest odds of making the postseason based on the simulation of the season run for Football Outsiders Almanac 2017. These odds will be updated…
Read More The Daily Briefing Monday, August 7, 2017
The Daily Briefing Monday, August 7, 2017 Former Niners GM Trent Baalke scores a nebulous NFL pay check. Josh Alper at ProFootballTalk.com: Former 49ers General Manager Trent Baalke has landed a new job. Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that Baalke has been hired by the NFL as a football operations consultant. Baalke is…
Read More The Daily Briefing Friday, August 4, 2017
The Daily Briefing Friday, August 4, 2017 There are three teams in the NFL, all AFC actually, where the starting QB position has become shaky due to injuries, which is causing COLIN KAEPERNICK coverage. Besides what is below, check out Baltimore, Indianapolis and Miami for that latest. Here’s CB RICHARD SHERMAN of the Seahawks…
Read More The Daily Briefing Thursday, August 3, 2017
The Daily Briefing Thursday, August 3, 2017 NFC NORTH CHICAGO Albert Breer of TheMMQB.com grills Bears GM Ryan Pace on moving up one spot to draft QB MITCHELL TRUBISKY: Ryan Pace knows how stunned you were. And the Bears GM is aware of how Chicago fans reacted to his trade of third-round and…
Read More The Daily Briefing Wednesday, August 2, 2017
The Daily Briefing Wednesday, August 2, 2017 LT RYAN CLADY, currently unsigned after ending 2016 on the Jets’ IR list with a shoulder injury, has announced his retirement. He said there were several teams interested in signing him. – – – Ara Parseghian, a great coach and better man, passed away today at age 94. …
Read More The Daily Briefing Tuesday, August 1, 2017
The Daily Briefing Tuesday, August 1, 2017 Visiting the Jets on his training camp tour, The Commish says there is no such thing as “tanking” in the NFL, unlike the NBA. Rich Cimini of ESPN.com: There’s no tanking in football, according to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. “I don’t think any team tanks, I really…
Read More The Daily Briefing Monday, July 31, 2017
The Daily Briefing Monday, July 31, 2017 The study that showed a 99% rate of CTE in NFL football players made an impression with its headlines the DB has learned in lunchtime conversations the last week. But Ben Volin of the Boston Globe says things aren’t as cut-and-dried as media headlines would want you to…
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