Daily Briefing

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH CHICAGO Adam Jahns of The Athletic on how the Bears came to hire the team of GM Ryan Poles and Coach Matt Eberflus: Matt Eberflus called his 80-year-old mother, Joanne, and couldn’t get the words he wanted to share out completely. He was at home in Indiana; she…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing On Tuesday evening, Brian Flores, mysteriously deposed as coach of the Dolphins and unable to find traction on a new head coaching job, filed a class action suit alleging racism in NFL hiring practices, especially by the Broncos and Giants – as well as in its firing practices. In 2019,…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing TOM BRADY Nick Shook of NFL.com: The greatest to ever do it has officially called it a career.   Tom Brady is retiring. The quarterback announced his decision via Instagram on Tuesday.   “I’ve done a lot of reflecting the past week and have asked myself difficult questions,” Brady wrote…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing And so – it is the Rams playing in their home stadium as the visiting team in Super Bowl 56. But, they will be the first team that won a championship game at home that had more fans in the stands for the Super Bowl than it did for the…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing After going 6-0 in the Super Wild Card Weekend, the DB was 1-3 in the more closely contested Divisionals (Cincinnati was our only hit).  Still, at 7-3 with three games left, we are at least going to have a winning record. We will go with the two home teams this…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH DETROIT ProFootballFocus.com gives high marks to the contributions of two Lions draft picks: 6. Detroit Lions Why they’re ranked here: Detroit owned two of the 12 most valuable non-quarterback rookies in the 2021 draft class with first-round offensive tackle Penei Sewell and Day 3 wide receiver Amon-Ra St.…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Sean Payton abdicating his throne in New Orleans. QB TOM BRADY hinting at retirement. The NFC South’s two biggest figures could be gone which has to be good news for Atlanta and Carolina. – – – Congratulations to Ron Torbert, named by the NFL to referee the Super Bowl for…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing DT NDAMUKONG SUH and QB MATTHEW STAFFORD seemed to be in a mutual exchange of words (with a Stafford kick?) when Shaun Hochuli threw his flag to penalize the standing Suh over the prone Stafford.  Taunting. But WR TYREEK HILL made a gesture at trailing Bills and no penalty was…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Peter King sums up the weekend past: In 25 hours on the greatest playoff weekend in the 102-year history of professional football, the headlines, one by one, kept overtaking the last one:   BENGALS KNOCK OFF 1 SEED TO REACH FIRST AFC TITLE GAME SINCE 1988 NINERS KNOCK OFF 1…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing We went 6-0 with out picks for a truly super Wild Card Weekend. But things get a lot harder this week. We are thinking that the best QBs get things done, so let’s take Green Bay and Tampa Bay in the NFC even though there are a lot of things…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH   MINNESOTA Chad Graff of The Athletic connects the dots between the Steelers and QB KIRK COUSINS: The Minnesota Vikings are still in the process of interviewing candidates for their vacant general manager position, a process that kicks into high gear this week with interviews nearly every day.…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Paul Truzkowski on trends from the first weekend of the playoffs: The first round of the NFL playoffs is in the books. Fourteen teams entered the postseason, and just eight remain as we head into the divisional round. It was a weird weekend of games with only two offering much…