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MarkMaske
@MarkMaske
NFL Reporter, formerly of The Washington Post
Washington, D.C.
Joined July 2009
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    The 7,500 health care workers being invited by the NFL to the Super Bowl each will have received two vaccine doses by Jan. 24. Most will come from the Tampa area. Each other NFL team will identify four health care workers to send to the game and cover airfare and hotel costs.
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    NFL competition committee is discussing the possibility of limiting defensive pass interference penalties to, at most, 15 yards.
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    The NFL is considering a protocol tweak that would allow vaccinated, asymptomatic players who test positive for the coronavirus to return to team activities sooner, sources say.
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    With David Culley's firing by the Texans after only one season, combined with Brian Flores's firing Monday by the Dolphins, the NFL has one active Black head coach, Mike Tomlin of the Steelers.
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    The Chiefs-Bills game drew 12.2 million viewers on Fox and the NFL Network, Fox Sports says. That's for a rescheduled game that started at 5 p.m. ET.
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    Fox's Mike Pereira, the former NFL officiating czar, says he thinks the Commanders' repeated offside infractions on the goal-line sequence during the NFC title game could lead to renewed consideration by the NFL and competition committee of banning the Eagles' push-the-QB sneak.
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    The Broncos appear to be the front-runner for Sean Payton, at least in the early stages of the process. Payton likes the franchise's stable ownership and would be happy to work with Russell Wilson, source says.
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    Exclusive from me and @NickiJhabvala: The House Oversight Committee tells the Federal Trade Commission that the Commanders and Daniel Snyder “may have engaged in a troubling, long-running, and potentially unlawful pattern of financial conduct."...
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    No new positive test results for the Packers or 49ers, source says. Thursday night's game in Santa Clara remains on as scheduled.
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    You keep waiting for the real version of the Chiefs to show up. But at some point, if this continues much longer, this becomes the real version of the Chiefs, circa 2021.
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    NEW: Daniel Snyder is demanding the NFL and owners indemnify him against future legal liability if he sells the Commanders or he will sue, sources say, angering some owners and renewing talk of removing Snyder. From @NickiJhabvala, @lizclarketweet and me.
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    The NFL believes the offside call on the Giants' Dexter Lawrence on Washington's missed field goal was correct, source says: "He was offside." That source says "two separate officials called it at the same time" and the accuracy of the call has been supported by video evidence.
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    Fox says the Washington-Dallas game Thanksgiving Day averaged 30.3 million viewers, making it the most-watched NFL telecast of the 2020 season and the most-watched telecast of any kind since the Super Bowl.
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    One NFL team has proposed making roughing the passer reviewable by instant replay. The competition committee expects to review that proposal Monday.