Daily Briefing

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing THE AMENDED CBA Governmental action would seem to be the only thing preventing an NFL season after the League and Players Association come to terms on a supplemental CBA for the 2020 season. Nick Shook of NFL.com: After weeks of discussions and negotiations, the NFL and NFLPA have agreed to…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The NFL and NFLPA seem to be working their way to a deal per Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com: Despite some huffing and puffing by owners about delaying the opening of training camp until a deal is reached on the financial aspects of pro football in a pandemic, optimism is building…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The sports world braces for the reveal of a Washington pro team name on Thursday.  It’s not in D.C. though, but rather in the Pacific Northwest in the state still identified by the last name of the first U.S. president. Seattle’s expansion NHL team will reveal their name – expected…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The NFLPA has some numbers on the prevalence of COVID-19 amongst its membership.  Those numbers changed during the course of the last 24 hours, downward.  Daniel Gallen of PennLive.com: The NFL Players Association originally announced 95 players have tested positive for the coronavirus as of Tuesday, but that number has…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFL players, at the behest of the NFLPA, are not in alignment with the NFL’s Covid-19 protocols. Michael David Smith of ProFootballTalk.com surveys their coordinated social media storm with the message We Want To Play BUT: Several NFL players took to Twitter around noon Eastern on Sunday to blast the…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Wuhan Covid-19 fear has gripped the twitter followers of Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com: Two months from tonight, Week One of the regular season will end with a Monday night doubleheader. Unless it doesn’t.   Everything remains in flux as NFL training camps prepare to open, and no one knows whether…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing With July 28 still two weeks away, the NFL and NFLPA got together, virtually.  If Richard Sherman is to be believed, per Mike Florio, it sounds like an uncomfortable conversation where the players talked and the league’s representatives nodded: The NFL continues to be a deadline-driven business, and with no…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Today’s negativity. Giants player rep T NATE SOLDER doesn’t feel safe, without details, with the NFL’s proposed health protocols: NFL players haven’t signed off on an NFL season yet.   As the league and NFL Players Association negotiate the details of an unprecedented season amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Giants left…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The NFL issues a series of Covid-related edicts.  Kevin Patra of NFL.com: The NFL game-day experience will look vastly different in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including during postgame celebrations.   NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero reported Thursday that, under proposed NFL-NFLPA game-day protocols, teams would be forbidden from interactions…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The bad news is that NFLPA president J.C. TRETTER finds reason for discord with the NFL.  Paulina Dedaj of FoxNews.com: Disagreements between the NFL and the players union went public Tuesday when NFLPA president JC Tretter wrote a blog post criticizing the league for prioritizing the preseason schedule and training…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The DB had heard that G ALI MARPET, the Buccaneers player rep, is cautious about the threat of Wuhan Covid-19.  Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com: As the NFL and NFL Players Association try to hammer out a deal that would finalize coronavirus protocols for training camp, recent comments from Buccaneers tackle…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Testing, testing, testing.  If testing is not up to Mike Florio’s standards, he wants to call the whole thing off: As the NFL and NFL Players Association try to hammer out an agreement on the protocols for training camp, the preseason (if there is one), and the regular season, testing…