Daily Briefing

THE DAILY BRIEFING History is on the line this week for two future Hall of Fame coaches.  Michael David Smith of ProFootballTalk.com: Patriots coach Bill Belichick and Chiefs coach Andy Reid are both aiming for significant career milestones on Sunday.   If Belichick’s Patriots beat the Cowboys, it will be Belichick’s 300th career regular-season win.…

THE DAILY BRIEFING NFC NORTH CHICAGO Charles McDonald of YahooSports.com calls this week’s Bears game the NFL’s “saddest matchup”: The Bears and Broncos are about to play the saddest game of all time Let’s keep this one brief considering what’s about to occur in Chicago on Sunday. The Bears and Broncos engaged in some of…

THE DAILY BRIEFING The Eagles and Bucs made history with their 25-11 outcome.  Jeff Kerr of CBSSports.com: The Philadelphia Eagles are making NFL history, throwing football back to an era when they last had a dynasty (in the 1940s). Even though the Eagles are rewriting the record books in run game, they are also setting…

THE DAILY BRIEFING These games didn’t look like embarrassments when the schedule came out: Week 4 Minnesota (0-3) at Carolina (0-3) Denver (0-3) at Chicago (0-3) Week 5 NY Jets (1-2) at Denver (0-3) The Broncos or Bears will win this week – unless they tie. NFC NORTH   GREEN BAY Peter King goes gaga…

THE DAILY BRIEFING Three NFL games need to keep an eye on a tropical storm this weekend – and none of them are in Florida.  Jordan Dajani of CBSSports.com:’ Hurricane season runs through late November, so it’s expected that a few NFL games will be affected by bad weather. While the United States is currently…

THE DAILY BRIEFING It is currently not a penalty for a defender to splinter a running backs knee while making a tackle.  Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com: The hit that ended Browns running back Nick Chubb’s is legal. Should it be?   It’s something Chris Simms and I addressed on PFT Live the morning after a…

THE DAILY BRIEFING NFC NORTH CHICAGO As Jay Cuda has pointed out there is only one team that has not won a game since Elon Musk bought X/Twitter last October.  And the same QB has started every game.  Courtney Cronin of ESPN.com: Chicago Bears wide receiver DJ Moore was open, and not just slightly open.…

THE DAILY BRIEFING A spring merger?  Tim Baysinger, Dan Primack, Sara Fischer of Axios: Pro football leagues the XFL and USFL are in advanced talks to merge, three sources familiar with the situation tell Axios.   Why it matters: Combining the two may be the smartest path forward for the leagues given the challenges and…

THE DAILY BRIEFING Mike Sando: The eight 2-0 teams: We all could have seen Philadelphia, San Francisco, Dallas, Miami and Baltimore starting 2-0, but Tampa Bay, Washington and Atlanta as well? The Cowboys’ 40-0 and 30-10 victories give them the second-largest average victory margin through two weeks since 2000. Only the 2019 Patriots (36.5) and…

THE DAILY BRIEFING Did artificial turf cause the injury to QB AARON RODGERS?  Getting grass fields in all 30 stadiums is the mission of new NFLPA head Lloyd Howell.  ESPN.com: The NFL Players Association’s new executive director has called for the league to change all of its field surfaces to natural grass in the wake…

THE DAILY BRIEFING So the Chiefs, Bengals and Bills are all 0-1, scoring a total of 3 TDs in Week 1. The Raiders lead the AFC West by themselves at 1-0, Cleveland and Baltimore get the 1-0 start in the AFC North and it’s the Jets and Dolphins at 1-0 in the AFC East. The…

THE DAILY BRIEFING Week 1 in a nutshell: Road teams went 10-5. Dallas and San Francisco lived up to the hype with crushing road wins.  The Eagles weren’t quite up to that standard in New England. Cleveland and the Rams with surprisingly dominant wins that cast doubt on the makeup of Cincinnati and Seattle. The…