THE DAILY BRIEFING
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The NFLPA has compiled “report cards” for each of the 32 member clubs that grade the opinions of players about how their team handles various items that relate to the players. There are 8 categories, and all across the NFL one can imagine what the reaction will be inside the front offices of teams revealed as deficient in the eight categories – treatment of families, nutrition, weight room, strength staff, training room, training staff, locker room and travel.
You could rank all the way from the top – the Vikings –
Overview
The Minnesota Vikings are ranked as the best team in our guide. 100% of the players feel like owner Zygi Wilf is willing to spend money to upgrade the facilities, and that assessment makes sense since the Vikings have gone through three significant upgrades in recent years.
Their facility was recently built and is considered state-of-the-art. This past year, they replaced former Head Coach Mike Zimmer with Kevin O’Connell, who through his first year is regarded as one of the most player friendly head coaches. Additionally, the former head trainer, who several players had negative experiences with, moved on from the organization. The Minnesota Vikings are a shining example of what is possible when a concerted investment is made in both staffing and facilities.
To the bottom –
Overview
The Washington Commanders are ranked 32nd (last) in our team guide. Besides the strength coaches who received great feedback and grades as one of the best groups in the league, the rest of the club’s operations and facilities were rated by player respondents at the bottom of every single category.
The locker room does not have confidence that club owner Dan Snyder is willing to invest to upgrade the facilities, as player responses rank him 31st in this category.
Players had significantly more concerns with each area of the facility than the player respondents on any other team. For example, they were the team most consistently identified as having an understaffed training room.
Players also reported that they have some of the smallest hot and cold tubs for players’ recovery, and only 35% of players feel like they have enough personal space in their locker room. Finally, there are complaints of a lack of warm water and issues with poor drainage in the showers.
Only 22% of players feel like they have enough space on team flights. The Commanders are one of six teams in the NFL that make a segment of their players have roommates before games and one of seven teams in the NFL that do not offer their players first class seats.
You can see your favorite team’s grades here.
We are doing a bit of a dive into all the surveys and summaries and will have more tomorrow.
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NFC NORTH
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GREEN BAY
DL KENNY CLARK gets a re-structure. Zach Kruse of USA TODAY:
The Green Bay Packers restructured the contract of defensive lineman Kenny Clark and created a little over $11 million in salary cap space, according to Field Yates of ESPN.
Clark had a $13 million base salary and $2 million roster bonus available to be converted into a signing bonus and prorated over the life of Clark’s contract, which lowers the cap hit in 2023 but adds cap hits to future years.
Like many of the team’s other contract restructures, Clark’s deal was specifically written to offer an easy lever for the Packers to pull now to create cap space. The team has now restructured the contracts of Clark, running back Aaron Jones, cornerback Jaire Alexander and outside linebacker Preston Smith.
Per Yates, the Packers cleared $11.068 million off the team’s salary cap with the move, providing Brian Gutekunst with even more space to maneuver through the offseason. Previous restructures put the Packers around $6 million under the cap, so Gutekunst is well under now with the start of the new league year looming.
The other big contract the Packers are likely to restructure this offseason is offensive tackle David Bakhtiari, who also has a roster bonus that can be converted to a signing bonus. The team can also lower the cap hits of veterans such as cornerback Rasul Douglas, linebacker De’Vondre Campbell and punter Pat O’Donnell with restructures.
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QB AARON RODGERS is out from the darkness, promising clarity in the near future. Bobby Kownack of NFL.com:
Rodgers spoke publicly for the first time since completing his darkness retreat, and although Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst said Tuesday at the NFL Scouting Combine that he’s still unsure of his quarterback’s 2023 plans, the four-time AP Most Valuable Player realizes the benefit of making a decision sooner rather than later.
“For everybody involved directly and indirectly, it’s best for a decision earlier,” Rodgers said on the Aubrey Marcus Podcast. “I feel really good about the conversations that are gonna be had, that have been had, with the important people in my life that help to orient me. But I’m not looking for somebody to tell me what the answer is. All the answers are right inside me, and I touched many of them — and definitely the feelings — on both sides during the darkness. I’m thankful for that time.
“There’s a finality to the decision. I don’t make it lightly. I don’t want to drag anybody around. Look, I’m answering questions about it because I got asked about it. I’m talking about it because it’s important to me. If you don’t like it and you think it’s drama, you think I’m being a diva or whatever, then just tune it out. That’s fine. But this is my life. It’s important to me, and I’ll make a decision soon enough and we’ll go down that road and be really excited about it.”
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All options are on the table, and it’s allowed rumors to swirl around Rodgers since the clock struck midnight on his season.
“I just needed to get the opportunity to reset,” Rodgers said. “As it got closer and closer, obviously there was a lot of other questions about my future that have been on the mind and have been contemplated. I knew it would be a good opportunity to kind of sit with those things. But that wasn’t the main reason I was doing it. It was, how often do we unplug? How often do we even set our phones down for a little bit, read a book instead of watch TV, you know? Meditate instead of listen to music. Whatever it might be that allows us to kind of disconnect from technology and the world and give ourselves the gift of rest.
“I spent parts of a couple of the days imagining what it would be like to retire, and then imagining what it would be like to continue to play.”
Many around the league have also spent the past weeks envisioning what it might look like to add the QB to their team in the twilight of his career. We’ll have those answers soon.
Who is this Aubrey Marcus that can command such contemplative comments from Rodgers? This is how he describes himself:
Aubrey Marcus is an experimentalist, unconventional fitness junkie, and human optimizer. He is the CEO of Onnit, an optimal human performance company that he has built into one of the fastest growing companies in America. Aubrey’s personal and professional mission rests on a single question: How can humans get the most out of our bodies, minds, and systems as a whole on a daily basis? His ability to answer that question has drawn dozens of elite performers, hundreds of thousands of customers, and millions of fans to Onnit. Aubrey lives in Austin, Texas
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AFC WEST
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LOS ANGELES CHARGERS
GM Tom Telesco says that oft-injured WR KEENAN ALLEN will remain a Charger. Jeremy Bergman of NFL.com:
Keenan Allen is entering his second decade in the NFL, a stellar career that he’s spent with just one club: the Chargers, from San Diego to Los Angeles.
As far as longtime Chargers general manager Tom Telesco is concerned, Allen will never not wear the bolt on his helmet.
“Keenan Allen, to me, he’s our Andre Reed. He’s our Charlie Joiner,” Telesco said Wednesday on Good Morning Football when asked if the aging WR has a place on the 2023 roster. “He’s an incredible football player. We have a great quarterback and we need weapons around him. There’s never been any thought of that.”
Invoking Reed, who spent 15 of his 16 seasons in Buffalo, and Joiner, who finished his 18-year career with 11 campaigns in San Diego, implies that Telesco sees Allen in L.A. for the foreseeable future.
As durable as they came for his first five seasons in Los Angeles — all of which ended in Pro Bowl nods — Allen missed seven regular-season games in 2022, his age-30 season, with a fickle hamstring. Still, Allen finished third on the team in receptions (66) and receiving yards (752), an integral part of the Justin Herbert-led attack.
Allen has two years left on his contract and is guaranteed just $1.5 million this season. He’s the third most-expensive player on the team in 2023 — for now — with a $21.7 million cap number. Meanwhile, the Chargers, two weeks before the start of the new league year, are projected to be $20 million over the salary cap.
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AFC NORTH
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BALTIMORE
GM Eric DeCosta offers hope for a long-term deal with QB LAMAR JACKSON. Myles Simmons of ProFootballTalk.com:
The clock is ticking on the Ravens and Lamar Jackson as the quarterback approaches unrestricted free agency at the start of the new league year this month.
Of course, no one really expects Jackson to simply hit the open market because the Ravens would presumably use the franchise tag.
At his Combine press conference on Wednesday, General Manager Eric DeCosta said the team has not decided if it would use the exclusive or non-exclusive franchise tag with Jackson. But DeCosta also said, “We’re hopeful that we’ll get a deal done with Lamar before that happens.”
The long-term contract negotiation between Jackson — who is representing himself — and DeCosta has been ongoing, though the G.M. declined to say whether or not Jackson has demanded a fully guaranteed contract.
“We met recently,” DeCosta said. “We both understand the urgency of the situation. There’s been a good dialogue, good discussion. I’m optimistic as I continue to be optimistic and we’ll see where it goes.”
While there is uncertainty, DeCosta said the organization has been preparing for all the different scenarios regarding Jackson for the last year. And the club is prepared for whatever scenario eventually comes up.
That includes being familiar with the quarterbacks in this year’s draft, though that’s something DeCosta said he would be doing anyway.
“I don’t really shortchange [it]. I love football. I love the art of evaluation. I look at all the top players,” DeCosta said. “I’m going to do a top 150 players in every single draft class. I’ve done that. I look at guys in free agency. I enjoy it. So, for me, that’s not something that changes year-to-year. That’s just a part of the process. To build a draft board, you have to look at the players. Someone’s got to do it. So I would rather it be me than somebody else.”
Still, at least publicly, Plan A is still for the Ravens to get a long-term deal done with Jackson before the franchise tag deadline on March 7, with DeCosta saying “there’s no doubt” that Jackson has earned the right to be among the upper-echelon of quarterbacks when it comes to pay.
“We’ll have a plan,” DeCosta said. “Obviously, I’m going to think about everything. But I’m not really — I don’t fear a lot of different things. If you think about it, and you plan for it, you discuss it, you talk about it, then what’s the point of fear? So, it’s not like we didn’t know we might be in this position last year at this time.
“So, we’ve had a full year to really discuss all the different plans. We’ll make the right decision.”
Advice from Jeff Zrebiec of The Athletic:
Baltimore Ravens general manager Eric DeCosta is a devout baseball fan. A Taunton, Mass., native, DeCosta is an ardent Boston Red Sox supporter. However, DeCosta studies how other MLB organizations handle their business. too.
As he continues to deal with the contract stalemate involving his star quarterback Lamar Jackson, DeCosta might be best served to follow the lead of the general manager of his favorite team’s biggest rival.
Last April, after his team initially failed to reach an agreement with Aaron Judge on a long-term contract extension by the self-imposed Opening Day deadline, New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman took the unusual step of announcing the organization’s $213.5 million offer to the star outfielder.
Cashman said he did it for “transparency purposes,” and because the offer was bound to get out anyway. It, however, was easy to see the move for what it was: a negotiating tactic aimed to show fans the effort the organization made to sign Judge while putting the onus on the player for turning down an exorbitant amount of money.
Judge later told Time.com that he was upset Cashman went public with the terms of the offer and felt it was an attempt by the organization to turn the fans and the media against him. But that didn’t stop him from signing a nine-year, $360 million extension with the Yankees in December. Piles of money tend to comfort hard feelings.
High-level negotiations are difficult. They can produce rancor and resentment. But in the end, the resolution usually comes down to two questions: Does the player want to be there? And is the team giving the player the level of compensation he wants?
To this point, when it comes to the Ravens and their head-scratching contract standoff with Jackson, the answer to the first question is: We think so. Jackson has said publicly at different points that he wants to spend his whole career in Baltimore, and it isn’t clear whether that has changed. The answer to the second question is clearly no. If the Ravens had made the offer Jackson wants, this whole ordeal, which has turned off fans and tested the patience of both the player and the organization, would be long over.
Except here we still are, and Jackson’s status is one of the biggest stories at this week’s NFL Scouting Combine. It threatens to have a significant impact on the team’s free-agent plans in a couple of weeks and on the team’s draft plans in nearly two months. Here we are with almost daily reports that paint a picture of two sides that are pulling away from each other rather than coming closer, and revealing numbers and facts that seem to change depending on whom you ask, whom you believe or when you are reading them.
Here we are trying to deduce meaning from Jackson’s social media posts and debating a seemingly endless game of he said, she said. Here we are with the Ravens in a position this week where they almost have to line up potential trade partners for Jackson in case the contract thaw doesn’t relent, because the quarterback playing this season on the tag isn’t a good option for anybody — regardless of what the Ravens are saying publicly.
This can’t be what the Ravens and Jackson had in mind.
The Ravens’ decision-makers have mostly stayed above the fray and not added to the noise beyond DeCosta and head coach John Harbaugh singing Jackson’s praises and expressing confidence that a deal will get done. That’s the Ravens way. They don’t negotiate through the media. It was even more important than a typical negotiation to DeCosta that things stay quiet and there were no leaks, simply because he is dealing directly with Jackson, who doesn’t have an agent.
Details getting out on the Ravens’ end have the potential to be viewed as a breach of trust to Jackson, who doesn’t trust easily, and only make delicate contract talks more difficult.
Earlier this offseason, DeCosta actually pointed at the NFL Players Association for leaking some of the details about the contract talks.
But it’s fair to ask where this cloak of secrecy has gotten the Ravens. It doesn’t appear to have gotten them any closer to a long-term contract extension ahead of Tuesday’s closing of the two-week franchise tag window. It hasn’t stopped the public perception that they could be mishandling contract negotiations with one of the game’s brightest stars. It hasn’t halted the speculation and reports about what they offered Jackson and what they have and haven’t been willing to do.
When ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith goes on television last week to say that somebody from “Jackson’s camp” reached out to him and two of Smith’s main takeaways were that the Ravens may be lowballing Jackson and didn’t try to integrate him into their offensive coordinator search — the former depends on your perception and the latter is patently false — that isn’t helping the organization’s reputation.
The Ravens didn’t respond. Maybe it’s time they did. When DeCosta and Harbaugh meet with the media Wednesday afternoon at the Indiana Convention Center, you can probably expect them to repeat the talking points from their end-of-season news conference in January. Jackson is their guy, they’ll probably say. They’re still optimistic about getting a deal done, and if they can’t, they still have the franchise tag at their disposal.
But why stop there? Why not provide a little more information on the Ravens’ offers to Jackson? And even if you don’t go full Cashman mode, at least paint a clearer picture. Why not push back a little bit on the notion that the Ravens are “disrespecting” the face of their franchise with below-market contract offers? Why not answer the claims that the Ravens didn’t integrate Jackson in the offensive coordinator search and haven’t kept him in the loop on other organizational decisions?
Surely, you run the risk of offending or irritating Jackson, but where has handling the situation with kid gloves gotten you? Yes, providing information about your contract offer could help other teams if Jackson gets the non-exclusive franchise tag and has an opportunity to field outside contract offers. But does it even matter? There are no secrets in the NFL, and the type of deal Jackson has been looking for is well-documented.
Look, DeCosta is an extremely tough spot. Negotiating the biggest deal in team history directly with your franchise quarterback is an unenviable task. By all accounts, Jackson has been as elusive in negotiations as he’s been in the open field. DeCosta has to maintain a strong relationship with Jackson while working out the best possible deal.
Anybody who doesn’t understand how difficult it would be for the Ravens to trade Jackson, regardless of the level of the offers, should take a stroll around the city on “Purple Friday” and note how many No. 8 jerseys they see. Jackson’s popularity is immense, and trading the face of the franchise — and the most beloved athlete in the city — isn’t easy to begin with. And that’s before the Ravens even ponder the task of finding a worthy successor to a 26-year-old former unanimous MVP in his prime.
But even before you get to that decision, DeCosta’s task is to protect the organization — and the organization is currently taking hits from a perception standpoint. It might be time for the Ravens to start punching back.
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AFC SOUTH
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INDIANAPOLIS
Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com on whether Indianapolis can retain the Scouting Combine as flashier markets lurk:
It’s become an annual box to check when covering the Scouting Combine.
How much longer will the Scouting Combine be held in Indianapolis?
A move to a larger market has seemed inevitable for several years. Although it hasn’t happened, Indy had to submit a bid for the first time, in order to retain the event for 2023 and 2024. After 2024, the Combine will be a free agent, again.
Via WISH-TV, the powers-that-be in Indy are trying to generate more fan involvement in the hopes of fulfilling the league’s goal of making the event bigger.
“As we look to our current bid that was one of our main pieces,” Visit Indy senior communications manager Nate Swick told WISH-TV. “We said, ‘All right, NFL, how do you want to grow this and how can we help you grow this event?’ And so that’s why you’ll see a lot more fan interactions the last couple of years.
The biggest selling point for Indy is convenience and efficiency for all Combine activities. If/when coaches and scouts (and media) have to schlep significant distances (or through traffic) to get to where they need to go, more coaches may decide it makes more sense to stay home for the week.
Will that be enough to get the NFL to not give L.A. or Dallas or Las Vegas a try? Time will tell. It could be that the league needs to see that it doesn’t work as well in another city before realizing that it should stay where it’s always been.
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TENNESSEE
The new Titans GM seems to say that QB RYAN TANNEHILL is their guy for 2023. Turron Davenport of ESPN.com:
Tennessee Titans general manager Ran Carthon, speaking Tuesday at the NFL scouting combine, offered some insight regarding his evaluation of quarterback Ryan Tannehill.
“He’s been a diligent worker, been in the building every day rehabbing and getting his work in,” Carthon said. “So, he is under contract and I am excited about moving forward with him and have a ton of respect for him.”
Carthon, asked last month during his introductory news conference about the quarterback’s future, had said he needed to further evaluate Tannehill. Tuesday’s comments appeared to be a progression from his previous stance.
The Titans have $9.8 million in cap space, according to ESPN’s Roster Management System. Tannehill has a $36.6 million cap number this season. The team could save around $18 million in cap space by cutting him.
There also have been reports that the New York Jets are interested in possibly trading for him, especially after naming former Titans offensive coordinator Todd Downing their passing-game coordinator.
Carthon noted that Tannehill is under contract and hinted at possibly keeping him this season. The GM declined to comment when asked about possibly restructuring Tannehill’s contract to lower his cap number.
“I know everybody wants to make a big deal out of the quarterback position, whether he will or won’t be here,” Carthon said. “But you guys have to accept the fact that Ryan is under contract for us and right now he is a Titan, and he will be a Titan.”
New Titans offensive coordinator Tim Kelly also hinted at Tannehill being around this season.
“He’s a great pro,” Kelly said. “He checks every box in terms of what you’re looking for from that position. I’m excited to continue to work with Ryan.”
The Titans were 6-6 with Tannehill as the starter last season. Tennessee was 1-3 in games that Tannehill didn’t start.
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AFC EAST
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MIAMI
Marcel Louis-Jacques of ESPN.com says the Dolphins are not all in, as in fifth-year option “in”, on QB TUA TAGOVIALOA at this time.
The Miami Dolphins have not yet made a decision on whether to pick up quarterback Tua Tagovailoa’s fifth-year option, coach Mike McDaniel said Tuesday.
Speaking at the NFL scouting combine, McDaniel said it’s still something he and general manager Chris Grier are discussing leading up to the May 1 deadline. Tagovailoa is entering the last guaranteed season of his rookie deal and has an option for $23.2 million in 2024.
“Like any other player, you factor in every variable,” McDaniel said. “I think it’s important to recognize we have a congruence of interests by the Dolphins and the player, Tua, that we both want him to play at a very high level for a long time for the Miami Dolphins.”
Tagovailoa set career highs in passing yards, passing touchdowns, completion percentage and passer rating last season, leading the NFL in the latter. He also missed five games, including Miami’s playoff loss to the Buffalo Bills, with two concussions.
He enters the fourth year of his rookie contract to equal parts optimism after a standout season and skepticism regarding his durability — Tagovailoa also missed four games in 2021 with various injuries.
“We’re probably best served to utilize the time [until the deadline],” McDaniel said. “That’s kind of the way we’re approaching it, but that doesn’t mean that we’re spending any long period of time not discussing it. This is something that Chris and I have been working through.”
McDaniel also did not close the door on tight end Mike Gesicki returning to the Dolphins in 2023.
The unrestricted free agent’s receiving yards and receptions in 2022 were the lowest since his rookie year as he took a back seat to Durham Smythe, with Gesicki playing on the franchise tag after he and the Dolphins were unable to reach an agreement on a long-term contract last offseason.
“There’s always a spot for good players. Mike has earned the opportunity to test the market,” McDaniel said. “We very much encourage that but are not in the business of turning down good players.”
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THIS AND THAT
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JALEN CARTER
Georgia DT JALEN CARTER has legal problems stemming from a tragic fatal crash.ESPN.com:
Former Georgia star Jalen Carter, one of the top prospects in next month’s NFL draft, has been charged with reckless driving and racing in connection with a crash that killed a teammate and a recruiting staff member.
The Athens-Clarke County (Georgia) Police Department has issued an arrest warrant, obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, which alleges Carter was racing his 2021 Jeep Trackhawk against the 2021 Ford Expedition driven by the recruiting staffer, 24-year-old Chandler LeCroy, which led to the Jan. 15 wreck.
The announcement came hours after The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Carter was present at the scene of the crash and later provided shifting accounts of the wreck to police.
Devin Willock, who was an offensive lineman for the Bulldogs, and LeCroy were killed in what police initially reported as a single-vehicle accident.
Carter is in Indianapolis at the NFL scouting combine. He had been slated to speak to reporters as part of a previously scheduled media availability, but a league spokesperson later told reporters that Carter would not be speaking Wednesday because he and five other players were still conducting physicals.
Reckless driving and racing are both misdemeanors in Georgia.
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Details of the investigation, released Wednesday, cited evidence that Carter and LeCroy were “operating their vehicles in a manner consistent with racing” shortly before the crash.
“The evidence demonstrated that both vehicles switched between lanes, drove in the center turn lane, drove in opposite lanes of travel, overtook other motorists, and drove at high rates of speed, in an apparent attempt to outdistance each other,” the police statement said.
Police investigators have determined that “alcohol impairment, racing, reckless driving, and speed were significant contributing factors to the crash.” A toxicology report indicated that LeCroy’s blood alcohol concentration was .197 — more than twice the legal limit in Georgia — at the time of the crash, according to police.
The SUV driven by LeCroy was traveling about 104 mph shortly before the crash.
“The charges announced today are deeply concerning, especially as we are still struggling to cope with the devastating loss of two beloved members of our community,” Georgia coach Kirby Smart said in a statement. “We will continue to cooperate fully with the authorities while supporting these families and assessing what we can learn from this horrible tragedy.”
According to documents and recordings of 911 calls reviewed by the Journal-Constitution, at least two vehicles driven by Georgia football players had been at the scene, including the Jeep driven by Carter, who left the scene before police or emergency personnel arrived.
Carter returned to the scene less than two hours later, according to the paper, which reported that he was asked by police whether he had been racing the vehicle that crashed.
Documents reviewed by the Journal-Constitution show that Carter first told police that he heard the crash from a nearby apartment complex, but then later told an officer he had been driving both behind and beside the SUV driven by LeCroy.
The Journal-Constitution also obtained surveillance video footage from multiple downtown locations in Athens taken the night of the crash. The footage, which also has been reviewed by police, shows three vehicles leaving the area at the same time: Carter’s Jeep, LeCroy’s Ford and a 2019 Dodge Charger driven by Bulldogs linebacker Jamon Dumas-Johnson.
Carter denied racing to the officer, who observed no signs that the 310-pound defensive lineman had been drinking, according to the Journal-Constitution.
The crash occurred hours after the Bulldogs celebrated winning back-to-back national championships with a parade and ceremony at Sanford Stadium. Willock was pronounced dead at the scene. He was 20. LeCroy died shortly after being taken to a hospital.
Police investigators said the Ford driven by LeCroy “failed to negotiate a left curve, resulting in the vehicle striking the curb with its front passenger tire and leaving the roadway on the west shoulder.”
The SUV struck a Georgia Power pole and another utility pole, slicing the poles in half, before striking a tree on the rear passenger quarter panel. That sent the vehicle spinning in a clockwise direction before it slammed into another tree on the driver’s side — where LeCroy and Willock were sitting.
Offensive lineman Warren McClendon, who had just announced plans to enter the NFL draft, sustained minor injuries. Georgia football staffer Victoria Bowles was hospitalized with more serious injuries.
Georgia athletic department officials have stated that the SUV driven by LeCroy was to be used only for recruiting activities, not personal use.
Carter is the No. 1 prospect in the draft, according to ESPN’s Mel Kiper Jr. He is not participating in the workout portion of the combine but will conduct interviews with teams and undergo a physical.
Josh Alper of ProFootballTalk.com with Carter’s response:
Carter was in Indianapolis for the Scouting Combine when the warrants were issued, but said in his statement that reports about his involvement include “inaccurate information” and that he will return to Georgia at an unspecified time to face the charges.
“It is my intention to return to Athens to answer the misdemeanor charges against me and to make certain that the complete and accurate truth is presented,” Carter said in his statement. “There is no question in my mind that when all of the facts are known that I will be fully exonerated of any criminal wrongdoing.”
Carter is ranked among the top prospects in the entire 2023 draft class and was widely expected to be one of the first names called in April, but Wednesday’s developments have clouded his future for the time being.
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