Daily Briefing

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Cities big and small count on the economic stimulus brought by fans attending large-scale football games.  But there are those who might command empty stadiums for football this year.  Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com: The NFL remains highly optimistic that the 2020 season will be played. The NFL has become less…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The good news is the NFL anticipates a Hall of Fame Game in Ohio in nearly two months time.  The bad news, this far out, Governor Mike DeWine (R) is saying it will be fan free.  This even though the State of Ohio has blessed limited spectators at The Memorial…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The AP explains how the NFL enters a time when government health experts are preventing some people from congregating en masse.  Schuyler Dixon reports: Timing favored the NFL over other major pro sports leagues in trying to figure out how to keep the coronavirus pandemic from wrecking the 2020 season.…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC SOUTH   NEW ORLEANS NASCAR won over RB ALVIN KAMARA with its shift away from racially insensitive images.  Charean Williams of ProFootballTalk.com: Alvin Kamara knew little about NASCAR before Wednesday, but as soon as NASCAR announced its decision to ban the Confederate flag, the Saints running back tweeted his…

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.  …