Daily Briefing

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…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH   GREEN BAY QB AARON RODGERS won without practice last week.  Now, he is missing practice again for a reason other than Covid.  Rob Demovsky of ESPN.com: Whatever happened to Aaron Rodgers’ toe during his COVID-19 quarantine — and he won’t say exactly what it was — kept…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing With COVID still nipping about, the NFL is going to tighten its protocols for Thanksgiving per Dan Graziano of ESPN.com: With Thanksgiving approaching and COVID-19 cases rising again nationwide, the NFL on Tuesday night issued a memo to its teams detailing changes to its COVID-19 protocols, including mandatory testing for…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing If The Season Ended Today in the NFC after Week 10:                                                    W-L           Div         Conf             Green Bay      North        8-2              1          6-1             Arizona            West         8-2              1          4-2             Dallas              East          7-2              1          5-1             Tampa Bay     South        6-3              1          4-3             LA Rams         WC1        …