Daily Briefing

THE DAILY BRIEFING AROUND THE NFL NFC NORTH CHICAGO The Bears won their Thursday night ESPN preseason game in Seattle.  Josh Schrock ofNBCSports.com: Break up the (preseason) Bears.S   For the second time in five days, Matt Eberflus’ team came away victorious in the preseason, beating the Seattle Seahawks 27-11 on Thursday at Lumen Field.…

THE DAILY BRIEFING AROUND THE NFL The senior committee of the Pro Football Hall of Fame considered 12 candidates for enshrinement and came away with three Finalists. In case you wondered why it is three and not 1 – the Hall’s Board of Trustees approved a change earlier this year to enlarge the number of…

THE DAILY BRIEFING AROUND THE NFL NFC NORTH DETROIT The DB’s gut has been saying that Dan Campbell and the Lions will be more than lovable losers this season.  Warren Sharp offers more tangible reasons to love the Lions. The Lions are predicted to win 6.5 games in 2022, based on Vegas Odds.   Why…

THE DAILY BRIEFING AROUND THE NFL The power of the NFL. A Tweet from Anthony Crupi: @crupicrupicrupi NFL Network’s telecast of Saturday night’s SEA-PIT scrimmage averaged 2.16M viewers, beating Fox’s MLB coverage (NYY vs. BOS/SEA vs. TEX, 2.08M) in the same window. Worth noting: Fox reaches ~40M more homes than NFL Net. NFC NORTH CHICAGO…

THE DAILY BRIEFING AROUND THE NFL Week 1 of the preseason is in the books – and it seemed like the games were a bit more entertaining than usual.  Tyler Sullivan of CBSSports.com notes four rookie quarterbacks who did well: It was a fantastic first showing for rookie quarterbacks all the way around. At every…

THE DAILY BRIEFING AROUND THE NFL NFC NORTH   MINNESOTA QB KIRK COUSINS has symptoms and was sent home.  Charean Williams ofProFootballTalk.com: The Vikings sent quarterback Kirk Cousins home after he reported feeling ill, Kevin O’Connell said in his news conference Thursday.   Cousins did not participate in the walk-through practice.   O’Connell said the…

THE DAILY BRIEFING AROUND THE NFL Even as the NFL frustrates defenses by emphasizing illegal contact penalties in 2022, there may be some relief from phantom roughing the passer penalties.  Jonathan Jones of CBSSports.com:   The NFL is yet again cracking down on roughing the passer calls this 2022 season. Except, this time, it should…

THE DAILY BRIEFING AROUND THE NFL Interesting from Warren Sharp.  The 2021 Titans had a lot of wins over quality opponents, the Eagles not so much: W-L v teams w a winning 2021 record:   8-3: TEN 5-2: GB 6-3: TB 7-4: KC 5-3: ARI 6-4: LVR 4-3: CIN 5-4: DAL, LAC 5-5: BUF, IND…

THE DAILY BRIEFING AROUND THE NFL NFC NORTH   GREEN BAY QB JORDAN LOVE will be your Packers starter this week.  We won’t see QB AARON RODGERS until the third game, if at all. Jordan Love will start at quarterback for the Green Bay Packers in their first preseason game Friday against the San Francisco…

THE DAILY BRIEFING AROUND THE NFL This note: @NFLResearch 🚨 Attention Jets, Jaguars, Ravens, Browns, Broncos, Giants, Lions, Panthers & Seahawks fans…   At least one team has gone “worst-to-first,” winning its division the season after finishing in or tied for last place in 17 of the last 19 NFL seasons The Ravens would seem…

THE DAILY BRIEFING AROUND THE NFL NFC NORTH   GREEN BAY QB AARON RODGERS has no desire to play until he is 45, unlike QB TOM BRADY.  Michael David Smith of ProFootballTalk.com: At 38 years old, Aaron Rodgers is the second-oldest active quarterback in the NFL. But he says there’s no way he plays as…

THE DAILY BRIEFING AROUND THE NFL NFC NORTH   GREEN BAY QB AARON RODGERS opens up about some of his mysterious methods for achieving physical and mental health.  Madison Williams at SI.com: Aaron Rodgers opened up about his journey to self-love and how ayahuasca, a psychoactive tea containing the hallucinogenic drug DMT, helped him reach…