Daily Briefing

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Peter King is hopeful: In the last 10 days, I have not heard a coach or GM, even off the record while gathering informational chum for my mock, complain about the inconvenience of drafting alone and from home. Veach shares his home with a wife, four kids and two Australian…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH DETROIT GM Bob Quinn admits the Lions are listening to offers for the #3 overall pick.  Nick Shook of NFL.com: One week after NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported the Lions were listening to offers for the No. 3 pick, the team’s general manager confirmed it.   Detroit…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing While hoping to stay on schedule, the NFL knows that there are public authorities that want to shut down everything for as long as possible.  They tell the Washington Post that they are making contingency plans.  Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com:   The NFL’s official position is that it’s planning to…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing This from Dr. Anthony Fauci per Michael David Smith of ProFootballTalk.com:   Dr. Anthony Fauci believes American sports can return sooner than some are expecting, but only if strict protocols are in place to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.   Fauci said in a Snapchat interview that sports can…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH   DETROIT Add DT DAMON HARRISON to the list of ex-Lions who were miserable under the current regime in Detroit.  Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press:   Damon Harrison spent the first three weeks of training camp on the non-football injury list last summer, when he said…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Peter King with some draft mechanics:   NFL HQ. Each year, the NFL’s VP of player personnel, Ken Fiore, is at the head table of the draft, on site, supervising the mechanics of the draft and accepting and confirming trades between the teams. This year, Fiore will do it from…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Are sports fans really waiting on a vaccine before they go back to a game?  A poll wants you to believe that.  Kelly Cohen of ESPN.com:   The sports world has been at a standstill due to the coronavirus pandemic for roughly a month, and despite the widespread eagerness to…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFLers are balking at invading fellow employees homes/having fellow employees invade their homes in preparation for the virtual draft.  Adam Schefter is fear rumormongering as reported by Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com:   It’s not quite carnage in the streets, but there’s a concern regarding the presence of IT workers in…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFL players have billions of reasons to hope that those in power allow them to play.  Matt Johnson of Sportsnaut.com:   The COVID-19 pandemic has largely brought professional sports to a halt with the NBA and MLB suspending their seasons. As the NFL weighs the potential impact the ongoing crisis…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing It’s been just three and a half weeks since the powers that be deemed a national lockdown was required to battle CoVid.    Now, even as the plague is falling far, far short of “expert” models in most states and the curve may be bending, the NFL is among those…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com, a hardline wait for Dr. Fauci’s vaccine guy, seems to take the side that a lockdown is harder to end than it was to impose.   The President conducted a conference call with sports commissioners on Saturday, and as to one sport in particular he expressed…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The population of the United Kingdom is 66 million.  So far, about 3,000 people have perished there from CoVid19.  There have been about 35,000 reported cases.   So, 0.05%, that’s 1/20th of 1 percent of the total population have had a case of CoVid19.  0.004% of the population has died. …