Daily Briefing

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The NFLPA agrees to a time certain for the opt outs, even as lawyers haggle over the final details of the revised CBA.  By 4 p.m. Thursday, we should know who is up for the challenges of 2020 NFL football.  Dan Graziano of ESPN.com: The deadline for NFL players to…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The NFL sees some gamesmanship around the issue of opt outs.  Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com: The NFL reportedly wants to shorten the deadline for opting out. The desire to give players less time to decide on playing in 2020 comes from at least two specific concerns.   As one source…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing We may have a signed deal by nightfall.  Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com: One week ago, the NFL and NFL Players Association worked out an agreement on a revised Collective Bargaining Agreement that accommodates pro football in a pandemic. As of this moment, the formal paperwork still hasn’t been finalized.  …

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing A pretty good primer on the on-going opt-out program from The Sporting News: The NFL season opt-out rules are simple. Anybody is free to decide not to play in 2020, and per multiple reports, the contracts for all players who opt out will toll to 2021.   NFL players who…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH DETROIT The biggest book in Lions camp is the team’s Wuhan Covid-19 protocol.  Michael David Smith of ProFootballTalk.com: These are unusual times for everyone, and NFL teams are no exception. And Lions General Manager Bob Quinn illustrated that in describing how the team has prepared its facility for…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Charles Robinson of YahooSports.com says the NFL won’t run afoul of as many problems as MLB. Major League Baseball was the canary in the coal mine.   If something was capable of going sideways for a league operating without a bubble during the COVID-19 pandemic, baseball would send a warning…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing THE AMENDED CBA Governmental action would seem to be the only thing preventing an NFL season after the League and Players Association come to terms on a supplemental CBA for the 2020 season. Nick Shook of NFL.com: After weeks of discussions and negotiations, the NFL and NFLPA have agreed to…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The NFL and NFLPA seem to be working their way to a deal per Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com: Despite some huffing and puffing by owners about delaying the opening of training camp until a deal is reached on the financial aspects of pro football in a pandemic, optimism is building…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The sports world braces for the reveal of a Washington pro team name on Thursday.  It’s not in D.C. though, but rather in the Pacific Northwest in the state still identified by the last name of the first U.S. president. Seattle’s expansion NHL team will reveal their name – expected…

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…