Daily Briefing

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…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing In the NFC, two teams with Bays in their name, another in the Bay Area and the fourth does have San Pedro Bay and two backed-up seaports. The AFC has an inland feel, with three river towns, and Buffalo has both a lake and a river. – – – Super…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Here is the Divisional Playoff schedule, FOX gets Saturday primetime, there is no early game either day and NBC doesn’t get either night game. The NFL announced Sunday the schedule of sites, dates, and times for the Divisional Round of the playoffs on Jan. 22-23.   Saturday, Jan. 22  …

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Former Patriots WR Julian Edelmen has put his money where his mouth is on a Belichick-Brady re-union in SB56. Edward Sutelan of The Sporting News:   Julian Edelman is counting on seeing a pair of familiar faces in Super Bowl 56.   Edelman shared on his Instagram a video of…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Jason LaCanfora of CBSSports.com is feeling that defensive coaches will be getting a good chunk of the open coaching jobs. Could this be the head coaching cycle where defensive coordinators prevail? Might the pendulum end up swinging back to side of the ball, at least a smidge?   It’s fair…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The staffs of the Lions and Jets will get to work the Senior Bowl.  ESPN.com: Coaches for the Detroit Lions and New York Jets were selected by the NFL on Tuesday as the coaching staffs for the 73rd Reese’s Senior Bowl next month in Mobile, Alabama.   For the first…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing As Tuesday morning dawns there are six coaching openings (if you count Las Vegas, a team in the playoffs with a still-interim coach). Chicago, Minnesota, Denver and Miami came officially open on Monday. David Culley in Houston is still the coach there.  Joe Judge has not been terminated with the…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing It’s a new world in NFL television as the biggest NFC game of Wild Card Weekend goes not to FOX, ESPN or NBC. SUPER WILD CARD WEEKEND Saturday, Jan. 15 AFC: 4:30 p.m. (ET) (NBC, Peacock, Universo) 5 Las Vegas Raiders at 4 Cincinnati Bengals AFC: 8:15 p.m. (ET) (CBS,…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC SOUTH   CAROLINA EDGE BRIAN BURNS is among those Panthers still steadfast in support of Coach Matt Rhule.  ESPN.com: Carolina Panthers running back Ameer Abdullah saw firsthand in 2018 with the Detroit Lions what it’s like when the coach loses the locker room.   Players were so disenchanted with…