Daily Briefing

The Daily Briefing Monday, May 1, 2017 AROUND THE NFL Peter King:   I think I must ask (and I am not the first): Is it really necessary for Roger Goodell to announce all the picks on day one, and a host of them on day two, while boos rain down on him like a summer…

The Daily Briefing Friday, April 28, 2017 AROUND THE NFL A couple of tweets from Thursday night from ESPN:   @ESPNStatsInfo  This is the 1st time that 3 different teams traded up to get a QB in the first round on draft day   @ESPNStatsInfo   This marks the first time in the Common Draft Era…

The Daily Briefing Thursday, April 27, 2017 AROUND THE NFL It’s going to take two people to replace Dean Blandino.  Darin Gantt at ProFootballTalk.com:   Almost-former NFL senior vice president of officiating Dean Blandino is leaving just as the league was about to give final say on real-time replay from every game.   And after…

The Daily Briefing Wednesday, April 26, 2017 AROUND THE NFL The NFL passed out a pair of conditional reinstatements on Tuesday.  WR MARTAVIS BRYANT and LB DARYL WASHINGTON.  First, Bryant from Gerry Dulac of the Pittsburgh Press-Gazette:   The Steelers might not have to worry about taking a wide receiver in the early rounds of…

The Daily Briefing Tuesday, April 25, 2017 AROUND THE NFL We have added the commentary on the Eagles’ schedule that was missing yesterday (and boy did they get a lot of primetime love).  The Andy Reid Duo, Philadelphia and Kansas City, show up a lot more than you might expect this year.   We still…

The Daily Briefing Monday, April 24, 2017 AROUND THE NFL We take an in-depth look at all the NFC schedules today (all times Eastern) with the AFC coming up tomorrow.   You may want to print this out from FootballPerspective.com   NFC NORTH   CHICAGO   SCHEDULE NOTES The Bears get back-to-back primetime games in…

The Daily Briefing Friday, April 21, 2017 AROUND THE NFL In the old days, the NFL’s Val Pinchbeck laboriously and manually slotted out each NFL game on a big board in a conference room while hand-crafting a schedule.  Now, a team of NFL employees waits for a computer to spit out a palatable option.  They…

The Daily Briefing Thursday, April 20, 2017 AROUND THE NFL We get the 2017 schedule tonight.  Eliott Harrison of NFL.com has a list of games fans will be excited to see (Harrison apparently hasn’t got the memo that Atlanta at New England will not open the 2017 season):   Ah, the Super Bowl rematch.  …

The Daily Briefing Wednesday, April 19, 2017 AROUND THE NFL The NFL announced on Tuesday that it will announce its 2017 schedule at 8 p.m. on Thursday. – – – Even in a league with vast sums of money available to all and a salary cap, Brent Schrotenboer at USA TODAY says income inequality is…

The Daily Briefing Tuesday, April 18, 2017 AROUND THE NFL John Breech of CBSSports.com has 10 things we already know about the 2017 NFL schedule – and some of those you already know if you’ve been paying attention (Patriots open at home probably against Chiefs being one of them).  But a few are a bit…

The Daily Briefing Monday, April 17, 2017 AROUND THE NFL If you read one thing today, make it the story on Konrad Reuland and Rod Carew in BALTIMORE. – – – The 2017 NFL schedule is likely to be announced this week, perhaps on Thursday.  Josh Alper of ProFootballTalk.com with some thoughts:   The schedule…

The Daily Briefing Thursday, April 13, 2017 AROUND THE NFL The City of St. Louis has filed a law suit against the NFL and the Rams for last year’s re-accommodation to Los Angeles.  The case starts out in a hometown court.  Ken Belson of the New York Times:   St. Louis and several groups in…