Daily Briefing

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing An NFL rule requiring the same helmet for every game (at least the same design of helmet) has hindered the NFL’s marketeers who would like to emulate college football with a stream of alternate uniforms.  The marketeers may be winning.  Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com: The NFL has been considering the…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing With COVID fears receding and lockdowns vanishing, the NFL can get back to the business of making money and increasing player pay in the process.  Nick Shook ofNFL.com: The NFL’s path back to normalcy has met a significant point on the financial side of things.   The league and the…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing All but two NFL stadiums are set for full capacity in 2021 – and the two holdouts are not in noted Lockdown States and should get there soon.  Kevin Seifert of ESPN.com: The NFL informed clubs Tuesday of two important developments for the normalization of the league calendar.   First,…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing QB PATRICK MAHOMES is an advocate for the use of microchips to aid officiating.  Michael David Smith of ProFootballTalk.com: Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes wants the NFL to go high tech to improve officiating.   The NFL has a microchip in every football as part of its data tracking, and bits…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Apparently an NFL team did not think it would score enough minority hiring points if it added former player Eugene Chung to their coaching staff.  Mike Florio ofProFootballTalk.com: The Fritz Pollard Alliance has asked for an investigation. An investigation is coming.   The NFL said Monday morning that it will…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH DETROIT Mark Brunell, Detroit’s quarterbacks coach, believes in the Lions even if no one else does.  Michael David Smith of ProFootballTalk.com: Lions quarterbacks coach Mark Brunell is aware that no one thinks his team is going to be any good this year. And he’s OK with that, because…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Two top 10 picks with the initials “PS” have agree to teams in cities starting with “D”. T PENEI SEWELL, #7, has signed with Detroit while CB PATRICK SURTAIN, #9, has agreed to a pact with Denver. Josh Alper of ProFootballTalk.com has Sewell’s terms: It’s a four-year deal with a…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Today, we break down the AFC North schedules. NFC NORTH DETROIT We don’t know yet if Dan Campbell can coach at the head coach level, but he sure is a quote machine.  Eric Woodyard of ESPN.com: If bringing a Super Bowl to Detroit required losing an arm than new Lions…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing We begin our breakdowns of each NFL team schedule today with the NFC North. But first, Peter King gets some inside scoop from the schedule makers: The 13th iteration of the 2021 NFL schedule was perfectly playable. It had been put through all the checks of the 70-game Key Games…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing We will go through each team’s schedule in detail next week, but we felt we had to highlight this quirk to Cleveland’s 2021 slate – the Browns will play the Ravens in consecutive games (although not consecutive weeks): 11        Nov. 21           Detroit Lions                1 p.m.             FOX 12        Nov.…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH   GREEN BAY We don’t think QB AARON RODGERS is re-thinking his strategy with news that the Packers have added QB BLAKE BORTLES to the roster.  Rob Demovsky of ESPN.com: The Packers are signing veteran quarterback Blake Bortles to a one-year contract, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing We didn’t have to wait until tonight to get the Week 1 schedule. Grant Gordon of NFL.com runs through all the Kickoff Weekend games, starting with America’s Team playing on Kickoff Thursday.  As a homer, we put the FOX games inBold. A matchup of the highest profile — featuring the…