Posts Tagged ‘Chris Myers Sports’

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC EAST   DALLAS RB EZEKIEL ELLIOTT is willing to not take one or two for the team (handoffs that is).  Ryan Glasspiegel of Outkick.com: Ezekiel Elliott has had over 300 carries in three of his four NFL seasons (he was suspended for six games the year he didn’t). Going…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC EAST   WASHINGTON The Washington Newspaper continued its attack on the owner of the Washington Football Team.  Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com: Daniel Snyder’s stay on Twitter could be short. His remaining tenure as owner of the Washington Football Team could be even shorter.   The Washington Post, which reported…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The solution being offered by the NFL is a consistent, steady drone of crowd noise no matter how exciting the action on the field might be. Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com: ans may not be present for games in most NFL stadiums, but it will sound like they are.   Per…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing An amazing 77 “false positives” from the New Jersey lab.  Otherwise, NFL players are perfect.  Kevin Seifert of ESPN.com: The NFL is regarding its weekend COVID-19 testing problems as an “incredibly rare event,” chief medical officer Allen Sills said Monday, and believes that its existing protocols have already proved effective…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing At first it looked like a wave of Covid-19 infections across the NFL.  Now, it looks like incompetent testing by a New Jersey lab.  Kevin Seifert of ESPN.com: The NFL worked Sunday to assess a series of positive COVID-19 results that have all been traced to the same laboratory in…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com gets the names of the Covid-19 committee the Commissioner has recruited for advice: The names are now known as to the members of the outside advisory committee that will assist Commissioner Roger Goodell on issues relating to COVID-19, throughout the 2020 season.   They are, per…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing The NFL has a rule banning pumped in crowd noise and teams have been severely punished for violating it.  But, in the age of Covid-19 and empty stadiums, it is, unlike Big Ten decisions, being revisited.  Quinton Mayo of NBCSports.com: The coronavirus pandemic has drastically altered the landscape of sports…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC EAST   DALLAS The Cowboys didn’t want DL GERALD McCOY sitting around in their injured reserve list.  Charean Williams of ProFootballTalk.com: The Cowboys have released defensive tackle Gerald McCoy, the team announced.   Nick Eatman of the team website reports the Cowboys “had an injury waiver on McCoy’s right…