Daily Briefing

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        …

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing If The Season Ended Today in the AFC – the Titans keep marching through a tough schedule towards the top seed.  And the biggest brands – Pittsburgh, New England, Kansas City – are all in the playoffs where they weren’t a few weeks ago.  The Colts have inched to within…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing And the ODELL winner, coming from way back in the field and surging down the final stretch, is THE RAMS!  See below. NFC EAST   DALLAS The Cowboys have placed EDGE RANDY GREGORY on injured reserve for what they hope will be a short stint.  Nick Eatman of DallasCowboys.com: At…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing OBJ After what must have been some uninspiring initial offers, free agent WR ODELL BECKHAM, Jr. is going to “take some time” to decide.  Jelani Scott of NFL.com: Those eagerly anticipating an end to “Odell Watch” will have to wait a little longer.   A day after clearing waivers following…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Sauntering silently towards the opponent’s sideline is now deemed the same level of felony as viciously hitting an opponent out of bounds or devastating them with a helmet hit.  Michael David Smith of ProFootballTalk.com offers a solution: @MichaelDavSmith Taunting, if it’s called at all, should be a five-yard penalty. That…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Entering Week 9, the NFC had a 21-16 advantage in the season series with the AFC (expanded from 64 games to 80 by the creation of The 17th Game). Then, this week, culminated by Pittsburgh over Chicago on Monday Night, the AFC won 7 of a whopping 8 interconference games…