Posts Tagged ‘Fox Sports’

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Hail to the Rams – a worthy champion. Although, we feel compelled to point out that the 2021 playoffs revealed the closest level of differentiation between the best and the also rans that we can remember. None of the final seven games had a margin of more than 3 points…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Here is our pre-Super Bowl addition. First off, we are going with the Bengals as our pick.  We know the argument that the Rams will sack QB JOE BURROW into oblivion – but we think he is a special QB on a special mission and his opponent, MATTHEW STAFFORD, who…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing Peter King: With Miami’s appointment of San Francisco offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel as head coach Sunday night, only New Orleans and Houston have vacancies remaining. So far, six of the seven head-coach hires have come from the offensive side of the ball. McDaniel, 38, is multiracial, so he becomes the…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH   MINNESOTA Here is how upstart Kevin O’Connell took down Jim Harbaugh (and two other finalists) for the Vikings head coach position.  Chad Graff and Jon Krawczynski of The Athletic: After newly hired general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah joined the organization two weeks ago, the coaching search had shifted…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing NFC NORTH CHICAGO Adam Jahns of The Athletic on how the Bears came to hire the team of GM Ryan Poles and Coach Matt Eberflus: Matt Eberflus called his 80-year-old mother, Joanne, and couldn’t get the words he wanted to share out completely. He was at home in Indiana; she…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing On Tuesday evening, Brian Flores, mysteriously deposed as coach of the Dolphins and unable to find traction on a new head coaching job, filed a class action suit alleging racism in NFL hiring practices, especially by the Broncos and Giants – as well as in its firing practices. In 2019,…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing TOM BRADY Nick Shook of NFL.com: The greatest to ever do it has officially called it a career.   Tom Brady is retiring. The quarterback announced his decision via Instagram on Tuesday.   “I’ve done a lot of reflecting the past week and have asked myself difficult questions,” Brady wrote…

AROUND THE NFL Daily Briefing And so – it is the Rams playing in their home stadium as the visiting team in Super Bowl 56. But, they will be the first team that won a championship game at home that had more fans in the stands for the Super Bowl than it did for the…