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Thanks to some ideal scheduling from the Minnesota Vikings, I'll be in place Tuesday for our regular SportsNation chat at 2 p.m. ET. We'll continue through the full hour, and then I'll hustle across the street for the 3:10 p.m. ET start to the Viking...

Research for a future post brought me to some figures that always carry high interest. Below, you'll find the up-to-date salary-cap reports for each NFC North team, based on ESPN Stats & Information resources. The figures include all rookies w...

We're Black and Blue All Over: Former Chicago Bears offensive coordinator Mike Tice has resurfaced publicly for the first time since the team overhauled its coaching staff, agreeing to interviews with both the Chicago Tribune and St. Paul Pioneer ...

Why exactly do we spend so much time discussing NFL finances and the salaries that teams pay their players? So that we can preview events like Monday's decision by the Green Bay Packers to release linebacker Desmond Bishop, as reported by the Milwauk...

In taking a week off midway through July, I missed minicamps in Detroit and Chicago along with a few other news stories, all of which served as another reminder that the NFL has become a 12-month affair. So let's roll through some of those items to g...

As part of his ESPN playoff prediction series, NFL analyst Mark Schlereth offers his take on the 2013 fate of the NFC North's 2012 playoff teams. Are the Green Bay Packers headed back to the postseason? Are the Minnesota Vikings? I'll tell you tha...

We're Black and Blue All Over: Good morning everyone. I hope you all had a great week. The lights in NFC North blog headquarters are back on and we're humming along at full strength. But I can't say the same for three of our division teams, who...

ESPN.com's ranking of the top 20 NFL coaches didn't turn out to be a battle between Vince Lombardi and George Halas, after all. The cross-platform 22-person committee placed Halas No. 4 overall, meaning it deemed Lombardi and two other yet-to-be-n...

A first-year player who has turned heads in OTAs/minicamps: Chicago Bears: Linebacker Jon Bostic, a second-round draft pick from Florida, has proved far enough along that he has been calling defensive signals at middle linebacker with the second t...

So long for now. I'm headed for a week without blogging. Hopefully you won't go a week without reading, however. ESPN.com editors will fill the blog with various and sundry posts, and I've left a few for future publication when appropriate. Have a gr...

Matt Williamson scouts the NFL for ESPN.com, and this week he revealed his offseason grades for all 32 teams. You'll need an Insider subscription to view the full file, but I've been authorized by high-level executives to leak a few NFC North snippe...

We're Black and Blue All Over: Good morning from back at NFC North blog headquarters, where I arrived safely Wednesday night after two days at Green Bay Packers minicamp. I'm planning to empty my notebook of a round of tidbits picked up over th...

My thoughts haven't changed on the Chicago Bears' decision to work out quarterback JaMarcus Russell. There is no harm in a workout, but I'm not at all convinced the sideshow Russell would bring to training camp is the best thing for a team transition...

We're Black and Blue All Over: GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Good morning from Day 2 of the Green Bay Packers' mandatory minicamp, which will be the last day of on-field activities for this event. (Thursday is a "team-building" exercise for players and coach...

As an assistant coach, Marc Trestman earned a well-deserved reputation as a strong developer of quarterbacks. But is now the right time to take on a potentially consuming reclamation project? Three months before Trestman's debut as an head coach i...

Chicago Bears receiver Brandon Marshall is one of a big handful of NFC North veterans who have sat out most organized team activities (OTAs) this spring because of injuries or surgery rehabilitation. In Marshall's case, arthroscopic hip surgery in Ja...