Daily Briefing

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing If you want to piece things together – you can start working on the NFL schedule at 7:30 p.m. tonight.  We will start doing so on Twitter (@NFLDB) as the returns trickle in. Josh Alper of ProFootballTalk.com: The NFL announced this week that the schedule for the 2020 season will…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing With the schedule just over 24 hours away, we thought we might take a look at how the NFC continues to have the combination of the best teams and the best markets – which means the schedulemakers will be throwing bones to CBS. How would you rank the 2020 desirability…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The NFL says the schedule will be announced this Thursday, the 7th, at 8 pm EST.  Stand by, for news. And adios, Mexico and England.  There will be only one nation in the National Football League in that 2020 schedule.  Here is the announcement from the NFL and its international…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The NFL will drop a regular 17-week schedule with a February 7 Super Bowl late this week as it anticipates a return to normalcy despite the dire predictions of Lockdown Governors and their medical advisers.  Jeremy Fowler of ESPN.com: The NFL isn’t altering its fall plans.   The league will…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The NFL has deemed travel to the nation-state of California non-essential.  Lakisha Wesseling of NFL.com: While several teams conduct their offseason program virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it comes as no surprise that the NFL has made changes to its Spring League Meeting.   The meeting, originally scheduled May…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Two big topics today – more feedback on Green Bay’s decision, as an NFC Championship Game participant, to play for the future and the possibility that the Buccaneers slipped TE ROB GRONKOWSKI their playbook while he was contracted to (but retired from) the Patriots. – – – The NFL hasn’t…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH   GREEN BAY Is this the real scoop about the Packers and QB AARON RODGERS?  Longtime Packers scribe Bob McGinn, now of The Athletic, on the fracturing relationship between Rodgers and the Packers. The Packers have had some puzzling drafts in their history but seldom has there been…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing So there were 270 million Americans who didn’t watch the NFL Draft?  We don’t believe it.  NFL.com: The 2020 NFL Draft was unique and historic in more ways than one. Not only was this year’s version of the annual Player Selection Meeting the first completely virtual operation, it was the…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing It was great to have a live event to watch and the telecast was fine for the most part. But not much happened early in a draft which followed the script of the first Mock Drafts from back in January.  Burrow to Cincy, Young to the Skins, the Lions couldn’t…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC EAST   DALLAS A scary thought from Michael David Smith of ProFootballTalk.com: When the Cowboys’ football staff is gathered together in one draft room, owner and General Manager Jerry Jones has final say — but sometimes Jones would get talked out of making a splashy move, most famously when…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH   GREEN BAY GM Brian Gutenkist signals he is open for business – up or down.  Jim Owczarski of the Green Bay Press-Gazette: Green Bay Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst conducted a conference call Monday afternoon in advance of the NFL draft, the first time he or any…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The NFL had a mock draft on Monday to work out the kinks on the on-line, virtual draft system.  There were plenty of kinks to be worked out according to early tweets. @AdamSchefter Text from a participant on the NFL’s mock draft that started at 1 pm EST. “Mock draft…