Daily Briefing

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH CHICAGO If Bill Barnwell ran the Bears, his number one priority would be the offensive line: Get (most of) a new offensive line. New coach Matt Eberflus and offensive coordinator Luke Getsy have a huge task ahead of them. The Bears have quarterback Justin Fields, which is exciting,…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH   GREEN BAY QB AARON RODGERS goes on Pat McAfee’s show and says a lot of nice things about Packers management, but he doesn’t say, yet, that he is back for 2022.  Michael David Smith of ProFootballTalk.com: Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers isn’t saying what his future in football…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The NFL yields to the desires of the rookies and their agents for a less cumbersome Combine.  ESPN.com: The NFL scouting combine on Monday night sent a memo to all prospective NFL players attending next month’s annual pre-draft event in Indianapolis, revising its policies and procedures regarding COVID-19 protocols.  …

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Peter King on the past postseason, forgetting the Wild Card round:   Apples to apples, this was the most competitive playoff season in modern NFL history.   I measured it in two ways: one-score games (games decided by eight points or fewer) in the final seven playoff games per season,…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH CHICAGO A twitter thread from Johnathan Wood of DaBearsBlog: THREAD   It’s really remarkable that Ryan Pace learned absolutely nothing from how badly he mismanaged Mitchell Trubisky through the first year of his career. He literally repeated every single mistake with Justin Fields.   Let’s recap…   1)…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH CHICAGO The hiring of Matt Eberflus was orchestrated by Bill Polian and endorsed by Tony Dungy.  Adam Jahns of The Athletic: From the back of the room, Buccaneers coach Tony Dungy watched star defensive lineman Warren Sapp argue with defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin and his position coach Rod…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The NFL has turned to a big gun in the social justice game to defend itself from the attacks of Brian Flores and his attorneys.  Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com: The NFL faces a significant and historic lawsuit from former Dolphins coach Brian Flores. It has hired a former United States…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH   MINNESOTA Not so fast with Kevin O’Connell.  Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com: The Super Bowl ended on Sunday night, if you haven’t heard. Since the confetti fell, we’ve heard nothing about the Vikings hiring Rams offensive coordinator Kevin O’Connell to be the team’s next head coach.   Four…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Hail to the Rams – a worthy champion. Although, we feel compelled to point out that the 2021 playoffs revealed the closest level of differentiation between the best and the also rans that we can remember. None of the final seven games had a margin of more than 3 points…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Here is our pre-Super Bowl addition. First off, we are going with the Bengals as our pick.  We know the argument that the Rams will sack QB JOE BURROW into oblivion – but we think he is a special QB on a special mission and his opponent, MATTHEW STAFFORD, who…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Peter King: With Miami’s appointment of San Francisco offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel as head coach Sunday night, only New Orleans and Houston have vacancies remaining. So far, six of the seven head-coach hires have come from the offensive side of the ball. McDaniel, 38, is multiracial, so he becomes the…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH   MINNESOTA Here is how upstart Kevin O’Connell took down Jim Harbaugh (and two other finalists) for the Vikings head coach position.  Chad Graff and Jon Krawczynski of The Athletic: After newly hired general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah joined the organization two weeks ago, the coaching search had shifted…