Daily Briefing

THE DAILY BRIEFING The Commish is bound and determined to force the NFL to flex to Amazon.  Mike Florio has more, including what was surely a coincidence in schedule making: Whatever Roger wants, Roger gets. And Roger wants Thursday night flexing.   Commissioner Goodell came close in March. Two votes short. Twenty-two yes, eight no,…

THE DAILY BRIEFING Curious. The NFL seems determined to give the Super Bowl 60 to a site that underwhelmed 10 years previously.  Nick Wagoner of ESPN.com: At the NFL league meetings in March, the San Francisco 49ers were confident they would be bringing the Super Bowl back to Levi’s Stadium.   Barring a sudden change…

THE DAILY BRIEFING We have various questions (and answers) from ESPN’s Dan Graziano throughout the team in today’s DB. NFC NORTH DETROIT Dan Graziano: Is Jared Goff good enough to lead the Lions to playoff success? Detroit is the hot team this offseason. The Lions knocked the Packers out of the playoffs in Week 18…

THE DAILY BRIEFING NFC SOUTH ATLANTA FALCONS SCHEDULE THOUGHTS Every game on a Sunday – and other than the Week 4 visit to London to play the Jaguars and Week 10 at Arizona, they are all at 1:00 pm…The one possible exception is Week 15 when the game at Carolina is among the five that…

THE DAILY BRIEFING NFC NORTH CHICAGO BEARS SCHEDULE THOUGHTS The four NFC North teams are treated pretty equally in the DB’s SCHEDULE EXPOSURE RANKINGS – all ranking between 10th and 16th.  And that seems pretty good for a Bears team that was lousy enough to get the first overall pick and then traded it away…Sure…

THE DAILY BRIEFING Today begins our analysis of the schedule as we introduce something we will call the DB NFL SCHEDULE EXPOSURE RANKINGS. We are used to seeing listings of how many “primetime” games a team received from the NFL, but besides those contests there are now a bunch of other standalone games – Thanksgiving…

THE DAILY BRIEFING SCHEDULE THOUGHTS There had been a lot of talk that every game was a free agent, but Michael David Smith of ProFootballTalk.com still sees an NFC tilt to the FOX games, with CBS honing in on the AFC. So much for every Sunday afternoon NFL game being a free agent between CBS…

THE DAILY BRIEFING The big meeting Monday between The Commish and his scheduling team must have gone well, as the NFL says the 2023 schedule is a go for announcement Monday night.  Michael David Smith of ProFootballTalk.com: The NFL’s 2023 schedule will be released on Thursday night.   The league made it official this afternoon,…

THE DAILY BRIEFING The NFL hopes to release the 2023 schedule on Sunday night, but at the moment they do not have it done says Peter King: The last NFL TV event before training camps open in late July, the release of the schedule, is nigh. What we know this morning:   The release of…

THE DAILY BRIEFING On March 30, the NFL pounded its chest on how many non-white males were getting big-time jobs. The NFL took another step at the owners meetings to increase diversity throughout the league while continuing to face criticism and a lawsuit for lack of representation among head coaches.   Each team is now…

THE DAILY BRIEFING The Class of 2020 went 12 for 32 in having their 5th-Year Options exercised. Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com: The TV coverage of the draft oozes with unbridled enthusiasm about each and every first-round pick. The reality is far less positive.   Case in point — of the 32 first-round picks selected in…

THE DAILY BRIEFING OzzyNFL with more international schedule scoop: @OzzyNFL NFL Schedule News:   A google search of “Tottenham Hotspur Stadium Events” has resulted in the potential dates for all three London international games in 2023.   Considering both Buffalo and Tennessee will host games in this stadium, we can assume the first Titans game…