Not only is it Friday, but it's the Friday before a holiday weekend, which can only mean one thing: The NFL's annual Fourth of July holiday news dump is upon us.The NFL Devin Mesoraco Jersey loves to dump news just before the holidays and it got a big start on Thursday when it announced that the Washington Football Team would be hit with a league-record $10 million fine.There could also be more news today and that's because it's the deadline for any player who wants to opt out of the 2021 season due to COVID concerns. A , but this year, no one has opted out so far. Right now, all eyes are on and that's because opting out is basically his nuclear option. He likely won't do it, but if he does, there would be a lot of ramifications involved and you .For everyone else, let's get to the rundown. We've got a lot to cover, including America's Team getting tabbed for "Hard Knocks" just two days before America's birthday. George Washington would be proud. As always, here's your weekly reminder to tell all your friends to sign up for the newsletter. To sign up, all you have to do is . 1. Today's show: Ranking the top 10 safeties in the NFLIf you read this newsletter every day, you've probably noticed that we've been ranking every position group in the NFL over the past few weeks. The man in charge of ranking the top 10 safeties in the NFL was Tyler Sullivan and he joined the Pick Six Podcast on Friday to discu s his list with Will Brinson. To be honest, we were lucky to even got a podcast today because Brinson usually takes the entire week off in the lead up to a holiday weekend.Anyway, according to Sullivan, the top three safeties in the NFL heading into the 2021 season are: 1. , 2. , 3. , Jed Lowrie Jersey Of course, Brinson isn't the type of host who wants to focus on the top three. Instead, Brinson decided to grill Sullivan about a few of his snubs and he started that grilling proce s by bringing and into the conversation (Neither guy cracked the top 10). To listen to today's episode -- and to hear Sullivan get grilled about his snubs -- . You . 2. NFL hits Washington with record-setting fineAfter a lengthy investigation into the workplace misconduct of the Washington Football Team, the NFL dropped the hammer on Thursday, hitting . The NFL had been when the league decided to take a look at Washington's workplace i sues following a where 15 women accused former team executives of sexual hara sment.Here's a look at the fallout from the NFL's ruling:Washington hit with largest fine in NFL history. The $10 million fine was the largest in NFL history and it's not even close. Before Thursday, no team in the NFL had ever even been hit with a $2 million fine. If you want to check out the 10 biggest fines in league history, (Washington might end up being out more than $17 million and that's because the team is also required to pay for the investigation). The fine money "will be used to support organizations committed to character education, anti-bullying, healthy relationships and related topics," according to the league.Dan Snyder sidelined. Snyder didn't get suspended, but it kind of feels that way. The Washington owner isn't allowed to handle day-to-day team operations for the foreseeable future. Snyder's wife, Tanya, who was appointed co-CEO of the team this week, will a sume responsibilities for all day-to-day team operations and represent the club at all league meetings and other league activities for at least the next several months. Dan Snyder will from Roger Goodell before he's allowed to a sume day-to-day operations.Washington has to David Wright Jersey follow a 10-step proce s to help repair things. Under the NFL ruling, the team has to put in place better protocols for reporting hara sment. It also has to agree to create a more diverse workplace and establish clear lines of authority. When it comes to improvements that the team has to make, that's just the tip of the iceberg. The team will have to file regular progre s reports until July 2023.NFL receives some blowback. The NFL decided not to released its findings in the Washington investigation, which is a decision that didn't sit well with a lot of people. Two lawyers who were involved in the case, because they represent multiple former team employees, released a scathing statement on Thursday. "The NFL has chosen to protect owner Dan Snyder. Ignoring our requests that it make the report prepared by Beth Wilkinson public, the NFL has chosen instead to receive only an oral report of the findings and to find Dan Snyder what amounts to pocket change." You .The NFL dropped the hammer on Dan Snyder, but the team came away unscathed for the most part. Over the past few years, the NFL has shown that it will strip draft picks away from a team that breaks the rules, but with Washington, the league decided to only punish the team's front office. 3. Predicting every game on the ' 2021 schedule Now that summer is here, that means the dead part of the NFL offseason is upon us and although things can get kind of boring during this period, we're going to keep things spicy around here by going through and predicting every game on each team's 2021 schedule.There are 32 Gary Carter Jersey teams and we'll be doing one team per day until we make it through every team, which is actually about to happen. After 28 days of doing this, we're down to our final four teams and all of those teams just happen to be in the NFC North.Since I like to go from worst-to-best, we're going to start our run through the NFC North by looking at the Lions' schedule. Our Jeff Kerr went through Detroit's entire schedule and picked out all the games the Lions are going to win and all the games they're going to lose and let me just say, if Kerr ends up being correct with all his picks, the Lions are going to lose a lot of games.Here's a look at how Kerr sees the Lions doing in three key games, along with the final record he sees them ending up with: Week 1: at Lions. Prediction: San Francisco over Detroit. Week 6: at Lions. Prediction:Detroit over Cincinnati.Week 12: at Lions. Prediction:Detroit over Chicago.Overall, Kerr is predicting that the Lions will end the season with a 4- Keon Broxton Jersey 13 record. If Lions fans are looking for a small upside to Kerr's prediction, he does have Detroit finishing strong down the stretch, well, strong for Detroit. After getting off to a 1-9 start, Kerr is predicting that they're going to go 3-4 in their final seven games. Look, I know it's not much, but that's the only good news I have for Lions fans. If you want to see Kerr's prediction for each game, be .Coming on Monday, we'll be continuing our run through the NFC North by predicting the ' final record. 4. Ranking the top 10 backup quarterbacksOver the past few weeks, we've been ranking the top 10