Daily Briefing

THE DAILY BRIEFING Executives at the NFL offices are having their pay frozen.  Mike Florio ofProFootballTalk.com: Despite a full recovery from the pandemic and the advent of unprecedented revenue levels, the NFL is keeping the belt tight.   Amid widespread chatter of no raises being implemented for league employees, the NFL has acknowledged a freeze…

THE DAILY BRIEFING The NFLPA has compiled “report cards” for each of the 32 member clubs that grade the opinions of players about how their team handles various items that relate to the players.  There are 8 categories, and all across the NFL one can imagine what the reaction will be inside the front offices…

THE DAILY BRIEFING DEREK CARR QB DEREK CARR is going to Indianapolis to renew discussions about future employment. Josh Alper of ProFootballTalk.com: Word on Monday night was that free agent quarterback Derek Carr will meet with a handful of teams at the Scouting Combine in Indianapolis this week and he’s familiar with a couple of…

THE DAILY BRIEFING The Competition Committee sees little, if anything, wrong with the way officials are calling roughing the passer penalties. This leak to Judy Bautista of NFL.com causes a stir: @judybattista Committee looked at 80 plays of roughing the passer, found only 3 questionable. Big convo: sling vs. slam. Slam is problematic — when…

THE DAILY BRIEFING NFC NORTH   GREEN BAY Time to explore the meaning of the word “bougie” as WR ALLEN LAZARD faces free agency.  Kevin Patra of NFL.com: After spending the first five seasons of his career with the Green Bay Packers, free-agent receiver Allen Lazard has high expectations for his next destination.   A…

THE DAILY BRIEFING QB DAVID CARR is in no rush to take the first seat on the QB carousel: Quarterback Derek Carr has been a free agent for a week. The market for unrestricted free agents opens in less than three weeks.   Time, as they say, is a-wastin’.   Carr’s brother, David, said Monday…

THE DAILY BRIEFING NFC NORTH DETROIT Bill Barnwell of ESPN.com on the Lions and their salary cap:   Clear out cap space. Despite being the NFL’s youngest team by snap-weighted age in 2022, the Lions don’t have as much cap space as you might expect. With quarterback Jared Goff on the books for nearly $31…

THE DAILY BRIEFING Peter King on how a two-year process to grow a perfect field ended up with an abomination: The field. Adam Kilgore’s excellent piece in The Washington Post answers most of the questions about the unimaginably bad conditions of the Super Bowl playing surface: “The NFL wanted a lush Super Bowl field. It…

THE DAILY BRIEFING NFC NORTH CHICAGO The Bears have moved one step closer from abandoning the City of Chicago. Courtney Cronin of ESPN.com: The Chicago Bears took another step toward leaving Soldier Field on Wednesday when the team announced it has officially closed on its purchase of the 326-acre Arlington Park property.   The latest…

THE DAILY BRIEFING Case closed says Mike Florio, there is visual evidence that field judge John Jenkins did indeed witness a crime: Four days after the Super Bowl, a surprising number of people continue to suggest that an instance of defensive holding should not have been called defensive holding.   The argument apparently was rooted…

THE DAILY BRIEFING All five coaching vacancies have been filled – and Scott Kacsmar pronounces judgment: @ScottKacsmar Gannon won’t last. Anarumo would have been a better hire.   This is easily my pick for worst HC hire of 2023.   1. Payton 2. Reich 3. Ryans 4. Steichen 5. Gannon – – – Kevin Seifert…

THE DAILY BRIEFING Mike Sando of The Athletic, who has most of the NFL’s movers and shakers on speed dial, has some thoughts about the call that all but assured Kansas City’s victory: Officials hadn’t called defensive holding all game, but with the score tied 35-35 and the Chiefs in the red zone with 1:54…