Daily Briefing

AROUND THE NFL Cooler heads are going to possibly prevail – and try to put some of the cat back in the bag on the Sean Payton Pass Interference Review Rule.  Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com:   The NFL went too far one way in March. It may now go too far the other way in…

AROUND THE NFL The end of the line for QB EJ Manuel:   The disappointing career of EJ Manuel has come to an end after he retired from the NFL.   The No. 16 overall pick from the 2013 draft by the Buffalo Bills has quit just three months after he signed with the Kansas…

AROUND THE NFL Peter King:   I think I don’t know a retired player who sets as good an example for his peers and those behind him than Curtis Martin, who graduated with a doctorate degree on Thursday. Such a good person, and such a shining example. – – – Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com thinks…

AROUND THE NFL NFC NORTH   GREEN BAY Novice head coach Matt LaFleur had help in putting his staff together from his front office.  That and more from Tom Silverstein of the Milwaukee Sentinel, who along with his sources, doesn’t like the way Green Bay’s hierarchy is shaking out.  It is a long piece, in…

AROUND THE NFL Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com thinks Jeopardy! champ James Holzhauer could find a place in the NFL:   Most memorable game-show winners fade from view after their runs end. James Holzhauer may be the exception.   Holzhauer, who has cracked the Jeopardy! code through a combination of encyclopedic knowledge, instant recall of it,…

AROUND THE NFL NFC EAST   DALLAS Jason Garrett does not have a contract beyond this year, and that looks like the way it is going to stay.  Jason Reed of Sportsnaut:   Jason Garrett is set to play out the final year of his current contract. Rather than offer him an extension, Dallas Cowboys…

AROUND THE NFL Herbie Teope of NFL.com explains why some new free agent signings could be in the works:   The next wave of free agency could be primed to begin Tuesday at 11:59 p.m. ET.   The passing of the league-wide deadline signals current veteran players on the open market no longer count in…

AROUND THE NFL Peter King with six games that became more compelling after the draft (we added the network the game is currently slated for):   Here are the games that got more compelling after the draft:   Sunday, Sept. 8. Detroit at Arizona. It’ll be a major upset if this is not the debut…

AROUND THE NFL The fifth-year option deadline is a great way to get a read on how a team feels about their first round skills a few years previously.  Michael David Smith has this year’s review for the class of 2016:   When NFL teams decline to pick up the fifth-year option for a first-round…

AROUND THE NFL NFC NORTH   DETROIT RB KERRYON JOHNSON is ready to go.  Michael Rothstein of ESPN.com:   Kerryon Johnson missed the last six games of his rookie season with a knee injury, but now, months removed and with the Detroit Lions offseason workouts underway, he said Thursday that he’s fully back to his…

AROUND THE NFL NFC NORTH   DETROIT The Lions have picked up the 5th-year option of T TAYLOR DECKER.   NFC EAST   WASHINGTON What number will QB DWAYNE HASKINS wear?  Michelle Martinelli of NBCSports.com:   Minutes after the Washington Redskins selected Dwayne Haskins with the No. 15 overall pick in the 2019 NFL Draft,…

AROUND THE NFL Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com on the “attendance” of the draft:   The NFL’s TV ratings possibly were down by two percent for the first night of the draft in Nashville possible because all those extra people were actually at the draft in Nashville.   Via the Tennessean, the NFL initially estimated that…