Daily Briefing

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH   MINNESOTA QB KIRK COUSINS is extended for a year, giving him two years now left on his deal.  Ben Goessling of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune: The 2022 season will be Kirk Cousins’ fifth as the Vikings’ quarterback. He’s got a new contract that could keep him around for…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH CHICAGO The Bears new regime is getting rid of EDGE KHALIL MACK.  Adam Schefter of ESPN.com: The Chicago Bears are finalizing a trade that will send six-time Pro-Bowl defensive end Khalil Mack to the Los Angeles Chargers, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Thursday.   The Chargers are…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH DETROIT WR JOSH REYNOLDS, a former Ram like QB JARED GOFF, is re-upping with the Lions. Josh Alper of ProFootballTalk.com: Wide receiver Josh Reynolds went through the free agency process last year and wound up signing with the Titans, but the move turned out poorly as he fell…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH   GREEN BAY The rumormongers said QB AARON RODGERS took $200 million to stay in Green Bay.  He denies the former, but confirms the latter. Rob Demovsky of ESPN.com: The beautiful mystery tour will continue. Aaron Rodgers is not done with the Green Bay Packers just yet, and…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing We have a cap for 2022 – and it is more than $200 million.  Michael Baca of NFL.com: The salary cap for the 2022 season has been set, and the number signifies a return to normalcy.   The NFL’s salary cap has risen to $208.2 million per team for the…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Peter King thinks the powers that be will resist the siren call of moving the Scouting Combine, an Indianapolis institution, to a more glamorous locale: The Combine’s locale On Saturday, the day I left, I asked a major NFL operative what he’d heard about the site of the 2023 combine.…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH   GREEN BAY Roaming the corridors and lobbies of Indy, Jeff Howe of The Athletic says the rest of the NFL thinks QB AARON RODGERS will remain a Packer. There’s a widespread belief around the league that quarterback Aaron Rodgers will remain with the Packers. Teams have inquired…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The NFL declares COVID is over.  Sam Farmer of the LA Times: @LATimesfarmer NFL is dropping all COVID protocols. Teams just got the memo. No more mandatory testing, Kinexon devices… masking on a team-by-team basis. NFC NORTH   GREEN BAY Coach Matt LaFleur is not bothering QB AARON RODGERS.  Rob…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH   GREEN BAY Matt LaFleur confirms that the return of veteran coach Tom Clements happened with input from QB AARON RODGERS.  Charean Williams of ProFootballTalk.com: The first sign that Aaron Rodgers was leaning toward a return to the Packers came when the team announced Tom Clements as their…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The Packers give up a home game (in a season when nine would be scheduled for the first time) to play their first international game.  Grant Gordon of NFL.com on the record five international contests: Five NFL teams will host 2022 international games in three countries — highlighted by the…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com hears that the Competition Committee may not let the Bills have lost in vain:   Two Sundays ago, during the Super Bowl pregame show, we pointed out that the owners may adopt this year a simple and straightforward solution to the inherently unfair postseason overtime procedures…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH   GREEN BAY For all the talk about culture and Super Bowl windows, Diana Russini of ESPN.com went on the Rich Eisen show and said she hears that cold hard cash (and/or bitcoin) is a big factor for QB AARON RODGERS going forward.  Darrelle Lincoln of TotalProSports.com: According…