Daily Briefing

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…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The NFL supports our new alternative national anthem. Jason Reid of ESPN’s The Undefeated lets us know: “Lift Ev’ry Voice And Sing,” traditionally known as the Black national anthem, is expected to be performed live or played before every Week 1 NFL game, and the league is considering a variety…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing There will only be two preseason games in 2020, and the NFL didn’t cut the first two weeks.  Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com: It’s been rumored and expected. It’s now official: The 2020 preseason will be trimmed from four games to two.   Specifically, Week One and Week Four have been…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The Clemson experience leads Henry Bushnell of YahooSports to call up “experts” about herd immunity. The idea has arisen inside college football locker rooms; on Paul Finebaum’s radio show and Boomer Esiason’s; and even, sources say, during a recent Pac-12 meeting. On Friday, coaches and athletic department officials convened virtually…