Daily Briefing

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Don’t count on four preseason games in 2020.  Paul Schwartz of the New York Post on rumors emanating from the NFL Office. Everyone is hankering for real, live NFL football and salivating at the thought of the season kicking off as scheduled in September. Fans are almost universally in agreement…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH   MINNESOTA Terez Paylor of YahooSports.com on how the Vikings, who as a sports team need security, are trying to navigate the demands of players and activists with their relationship with the Minneapolis police department (not yet defunded or disbanded). On Tuesday, Minnesota Vikings general manager Rick Spielman…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Frank Schwab of YahooSports.com points out that this is not the first time NFL players have not been on the field under the inspection of their coaches in an offseason.  And we don’t remember 2011 as deficient: Football coaches are micromanagers. If you gave them 23 hours and 50 minutes…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Will the NFLPA let the NFL start training camps a bit earlier this year due to the way the offseason programs were shut down?  Albert Breer of SI.com: • So could some players return to team facilities before June 26? The answer is yes, it’s possible, though maybe not likely.…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing On Friday afternoon, without consulting with the owners, Roger Goodell put the NFL squarely on the side of its militant players in the battle against improper policing specifically and systemic racial injustice in general.  The NFL, said Goodell, had been wrong not to listen to its players and accept what…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Boy, it’s tough to be a compiler of NFL news these days – and an occasional commentator.  We wish this could be just about football but NFL news today is dominated by statements and actions concerning America’s race-related crisis. At the beginning of the week, we vowed to be “less…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH   GREEN BAY We have the reaction to the comments of QB DREW BREES as he tried to craft an acceptable position in today’s social media world (below), but here we look at QB AARON RODGERS whose posts and quotes are more in line with prevailing sentiment. Zach…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The NFL commands, at the apparent behest of the NFLPA, that teams hold preseason training at their in-town home facilities.  Nick Shook of NFL.com: The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect almost every facet of life and, for the NFL, another change in policy has come as a result.  …

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing This from Field Yates: @FieldYates Four teams are set to gain cap space tomorrow as a result of post-June 1 cuts earlier this offseason:   * Bears: $2.8M (Trey Burton) * Falcons: $10.75M (Desmond Trufant) * Jets: $11M (Trumaine Johnson) * Rams: $5.5M (Todd Gurley) – – – Mike Florio…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Some tough questions from readers for Peter King: Rhule is an example of what’s wrong with the coaching scene, and I should have pointed it out.From Stephen Pratt, of Braintree, Mass.: “Clearly you feel strongly about the lack of minority hiring in recent years. However, a few weeks back you…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The 4th-and-15 onside kick replacement failed to gain enough votes, much to the DB’s dismay.  Josh Alper of ProFootballTalk.com: The proposed alternative to onside kicks was not passed by NFL owners at their virtual league meeting on Thursday.   Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports that the proposal to allow…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The NFL’s Troy Vincent brims with confidence about even the most stringent LockDown Governor standing aside to the power of the NFL.  Jeff Kerr of CBSSports.com: The NFL doesn’t plan on playing football games in empty stadiums in 2020 unless it’s forced to. Troy Vincent, the league’s Executive Vice President…