Daily Briefing

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing After Monday night, we are starting to think that the Super Bowl match-up America wants is becoming more and more likely, almost inevitable.  FootballOutsiders agrees with New England and Tampa Bay now favorites by the DVOA method in their respective conferences: Team   Conf App         Conf Win         SB Win NE       69.8% …

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing If The Season Ended Today – the Patriots rule the roost: New England  East     9-4       1          7-1 Tennessee      South   8-4       1          5-3 Baltimore         North   8-4       1          5-4 Kansas City     West    8-4       1          3-4 LA Chargers    WC1    7-5       2          5-3 Cincinnati        WC2    7-5       2          5-3 Buffalo             WC3    7-5       2          5-5…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing If The Season Ended Today In the NFC: Arizona            West       10-2       1     6-2 Green Bay      North        9-3       1     7-2 Tampa Bay     South        9-3       1     6-3 Dallas              East          8-4       1     6-1 LA Rams         WC1         8-4       2     5-3 Washington     WC2        …

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC SOUTH   NEW ORLEANS Things did not go so well for QB TAYSOM HILL in his first start of the season.  Mike Triplett of ESPN.com: For a minute there, it looked like Taysom Hill’s legs might just inject some life into the New Orleans Saints’ flailing offense on Thursday…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Thought you might want to know these season-long trends: Favorites: 76-99-1 ATS (43%) Home teams: 78-101-1 ATS (44%) Overs: 77-97-2 ATS (44%) Home favorites: 41-64-1 ATS (39%) The year of the Road Dogs. NFC NORTH   GREEN BAY Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com is almost sincere and nice as he notes…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH   GREEN BAY QB AARON RODGERS is wondering how NFL rumormongers are getting medical info on his toe and treatment options – with an eye towards his own coaching staff.  Mike Florio, as usual, does not take Rodgers’ side: Every Tuesday during football season (and on at least…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing If The Season Ended Today, we must admit we are shocked to find the Washington Football Team not only contending for a Wild Card berth – but currently in the playoffs:                                      W-L         Div         Conf Arizona              West     9-2           1           5-2 Green Bay        North    9-3   …

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Partly because of the imbalance in the conference (three of the four really bad teams are in the AFC) and partly because of a 31-27 advantage in inter-conference games – the playoff line for a tightly-packed AFC is 6-5, while it will be 5-6 when we look at the NFC…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH CHICAGO Coach Matt Nagy says that the report that he was told he is coaching his last game with the Bears tomorrow is “not accurate.”  Kevin Seifert of ESPN.com: Chicago Bears coach Matt Nagy denied a report that he had been informed he would be fired after Thursday’s…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing If The Season Ended Today in the NFC, the four division leaders all have at least a two-game advantage with 7 or 8 to play – so we can look forward to playoff games in Glendale, Lambeau, Raymond James and Jerry World. As to the Wild Card teams, the NFC…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing If The Season Ended Today In The AFC – there has been a seismic shift in the East with New England moving into 1st in the division and 2nd in the conference, while Buffalo has tumbled all the way the precipice of falling out of the playoffs completely.  Eight teams…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Down below we have an opus that tries to look, without any inside knowledge, as to how the NFL would tackle a 40-team league with 8 expansion franchises. The two threshold issues would seem to be whether or not 8 small divisions is the way to go with such a…