Daily Briefing

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing An amazing 77 “false positives” from the New Jersey lab.  Otherwise, NFL players are perfect.  Kevin Seifert of ESPN.com: The NFL is regarding its weekend COVID-19 testing problems as an “incredibly rare event,” chief medical officer Allen Sills said Monday, and believes that its existing protocols have already proved effective…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing At first it looked like a wave of Covid-19 infections across the NFL.  Now, it looks like incompetent testing by a New Jersey lab.  Kevin Seifert of ESPN.com: The NFL worked Sunday to assess a series of positive COVID-19 results that have all been traced to the same laboratory in…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com gets the names of the Covid-19 committee the Commissioner has recruited for advice: The names are now known as to the members of the outside advisory committee that will assist Commissioner Roger Goodell on issues relating to COVID-19, throughout the 2020 season.   They are, per…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The NFL has a rule banning pumped in crowd noise and teams have been severely punished for violating it.  But, in the age of Covid-19 and empty stadiums, it is, unlike Big Ten decisions, being revisited.  Quinton Mayo of NBCSports.com: The coronavirus pandemic has drastically altered the landscape of sports…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC EAST   DALLAS The Cowboys didn’t want DL GERALD McCOY sitting around in their injured reserve list.  Charean Williams of ProFootballTalk.com: The Cowboys have released defensive tackle Gerald McCoy, the team announced.   Nick Eatman of the team website reports the Cowboys “had an injury waiver on McCoy’s right…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Barring a reversal, it looks like there will be fans attending at least one NFL game this year.  KMBC9 in Kansas City: The Kansas City Chiefs have finalized their plans to have fans in the stands at Arrowhead Stadium this fall.   Under the guidelines established by the NFL, and…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH   MINNESOTA The DB is thinking that a player likely to be extremely impactful who is kind of flying under the radar is WR JUSTIN JEFFERSON.  Gary Kubiak is thinking the same thing.  Michael Baca of NFL.com: After trading wide receiver Stefon Diggs this offseason, the Minnesota Vikings…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC EAST   WASHINGTON Rumors of a power struggle in Washington.  Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com: Dysfunction always finds a way.   At a time when the Washington Football Team is trying its damnedest to turn the page on troubled times, trouble lingers for the franchise. According to the Wall Street…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Josh Alper of ProFootballTalk.com with an update on Covid procedures: The NFL and NFLPA have agreed to extend daily COVID-19 testing of players through September 5, but it isn’t because of the number of positive tests to this point in training camp.   The NFL sent a letter to teams…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC EAST   DALLAS While the WFT goes with an empty stadium, the Cowboys think they will have fans next month at Jerry World.  Josh Alper of ProFootballTalk.com: Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has been silent for much of the offseason, but he held a video conference with reporters on Wednesday…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Peter King has a long look at Texans training camp in the age of Wuhan Covid-19 precautions.  Here is the part on how Coach Bill O’Brien gets from the parking lot to his office: 5:23 a.m. “Good morning,” the yellow-shirted medical technician says to O’Brien as he stops his car…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Peter King has a long look at Texans training camp in the age of Wuhan Covid-19 precautions.  Here is the part on how Coach Bill O’Brien gets from the parking lot to his office: 5:23 a.m. “Good morning,” the yellow-shirted medical technician says to O’Brien as he stops his car…