Daily Briefing

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…

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…