It’s the end of June, with weeks to go before training camps begin, which means we NFL junkies are left to scour the reports that came out of OTAs and minicamps earlier this month, hoping to find fun, interesting and useful scraps of information to carry us into July.
Some stories that came out deserve more attention. Others might have gotten more run than they should.
This is hype season, and all 32 teams (or most of them, anyway) feel reborn and refreshed. But not all the news out there is puppy dogs and ice cream. Some club officials might quietly be wringing their hands over their defense, their quarterbacks, contractual matters, a lack of leadership — you name it.
Look around, and you can find examples on both sides, from the saccharine to sacrilege. I’m here to sort through the offseason news cycle and filter out what really matters and what is overblown. After all, stuff people are worried about now will quietly disappear before you know it, while narratives that feel like blow-off stories have the potential to blow up in short order.