Daily Briefing

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Judy Battista of NFL.com reports that New Orleans has lost the 2024 Super Bowl.  Kevin Patra, also of NFL.com, has the tale: Super Bowl LVIII is on the move.   NFL owners pushed the Super Bowl slated to be played in New Orleans in 2024 to 2025, NFL Network’s Judy…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing If The Season Ended Today in the AFC, the Titans have opened up some distance in the AFC South and the Chiefs are down to the 3rd seed. The AFC                                                W-L    Conf   1        Tennessee      South   4-0       3-0   2        Pittsburgh        North   4-0       2-0   3        Kansas City     West   …

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing In this week’s version of If the Season Ended Today, the Seahawks have leapfrogged the already byed Packers for the temporary top seed, the Saints now sit atop the NFC South and the teams they are tied with are out of the playoffs and the Cowboys lead the NFC East.…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Albert Breer of SI.com on the changes to the schedule: And at this point, the schedule grid feels like a Jenga tower one pulled piece away from collapsing, particularly now that six teams are through their bye weeks, be they scheduled or forced by the virus. Here’s the fallout from…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Jeff Kerr of CBSSports.com on the havoc being wreaked on the NFL schedule by positive tests for the dreaded Covid-19: Week 5 of the NFL season has gone topsy turvy as there have been multiple schedule changes as a result of the coronavirus pandemic that’s sweeping the league. The Tennessee…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The NFL announces recent Covid-19 results: The National Football League and NFL Players Association today announced the COVID-19 monitoring testing results for September 20-October 3.   During this period, players and Tier 1 and 2 personnel were tested daily. Tier 3 individuals were tested weekly. Individuals who test positive for…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com notes disapprovingly that teams are still greeting each other after games. Much was made in July about the ban on post-game jersey swaps and then, eventually, a sponsorship-opportunity workaround. The document preventing players from lingering on the field to remove their jerseys, sign them, and trade…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing It’s never too early for If The Season Ended Today. The AFC                                                W-L                Conf 1          Kansas City     West    4-0                   4-0 2          Buffalo             East     4-0                   3-0 3          Tennessee      South   3-0                  2-0 4          Pittsburgh        North   3-0                   2-0       5          Baltimore         WC1    3-1                   2-1 6          Indianapolis     WC2    3-1                   1-1 7          Cleveland        WC3   …

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Peter King on the TV considerations that are promoting the game being played in Kansas City tonight and other Covid thoughts: Why rush the Patriots-Chiefs game to tonight and have the league override its rule about not traveling on the day of a game? Three reasons. The league didn’t want…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The Titans-Steelers game is re-scheduled.  Michael David Smith of ProFootballTalk.com: The NFL has juggled the schedule to allow the Steelers and Titans to play this season after their game scheduled for Sunday had to be postponed.   The league announced today that the Steelers-Titans game that was postponed because of…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing A trickle of positive tests among the Titans has moved the Steelers-Titans game out of Week 4.  Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com sees a way forward to get the game played without undue distress: We learned on Wednesday that the Titans and Steelers would not be playing as scheduled on Sunday.…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing One more positive test for the Titans.  None for the Vikings. And on Wednesday, the NFL announces that the game will not be played on Sunday.  They are hoping for Monday. Sunday’s Titans-Steelers game has been postponed as a result of the multiple positive COVID-19 cases affecting the Titans, a…