{"id":6777,"date":"2019-08-07T10:11:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T15:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/?p=6777"},"modified":"2019-08-07T10:43:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T15:43:35","slug":"ranking-the-2019-nfl-media-guides-nfc-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/ranking-the-2019-nfl-media-guides-nfc-north\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranking the 2019 NFL Media Guides: NFC North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2019 NFL season is nearly upon us, and to celebrate I&#8217;m doing something new to introduce the new season of team media guides. Today&#8217;s edition covers the four squads of the NFC North &#8212; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/nfl\/teams\/bears\/press-room-nfl-bears.html\">Chicago Bears<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/nfl\/teams\/lions\/press-room-nfl-lions.html\">Detroit Lions<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/nfl\/teams\/packers\/press-room-nfl-packers.html\">Green Bay Packers<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/nfl\/teams\/vikings\/press-room-nfl-vikings.html\">Minnesota Vikings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the previous editions: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/ranking-the-2019-nfl-media-guides-afc-north\/\">AFC North<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Chicago Bears<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/nfl\/seasons\/2019\/media-guide-2019_chb.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/nfl\/seasons\/2019\/images\/nfl-media-guide_chicago-bears_2019.jpg\" alt=\"NFL Media Guide: Chicago Bears (2019)\" width=\"600\" height=\"774\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I guess the Bears are going for some sort of futuristic look to celebrate the NFL&#8217;s 100th season. I would&#8217;ve preferred something a little more historical, given how integral Chicago has been to the history of the league. <strong>Grade: C+<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Detroit Lions<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/nfl\/seasons\/2019\/media-guide-2019_det.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/nfl\/seasons\/2019\/images\/nfl-media-guide_detroit-lions_2019.jpg\" alt=\"NFL Media Guide: Detroit Lions (2019)\" width=\"600\" height=\"775\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a big logo and it&#8217;s got the Lions colors. That&#8217;s about it. <strong>Grade: C<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Green Bay Packers<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/nfl\/seasons\/2019\/media-guide-2019_gnb.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/nfl\/seasons\/2019\/images\/nfl-media-guide_green-bay-packers_2019.jpg\" alt=\"NFL Media Guide: Green Bay Packers (2019)\" width=\"599\" height=\"926\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Pack has had better efforts in recent years, but worse ones as well. <strong>Grade: B-<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Minnesota Vikings<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/nfl\/seasons\/2019\/media-guide-2019_min.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/nfl\/seasons\/2019\/images\/nfl-media-guide_minnesota-vikings_2019.jpg\" alt=\"NFL Media Guide: Minnesota Vikings (2019)\" width=\"599\" height=\"923\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you paid as much money for your new stadium as was spent on U.S. Bank Stadium, I guess you&#8217;d want to take as many pictures of it as you could. Unfortunately a building doesn&#8217;t usually make for a nice cover. <strong>Grade: C-<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In which I review the 2019 media guide cover design for the four teams of the NFC North: the Chicago Bears, Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, and Minnesota Vikings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[459,194,226,191,50,292,655,91],"class_list":["post-6777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-galleries","tag-2010s","tag-chicago-bears","tag-detroit-lions","tag-green-bay-packers","tag-media-guides","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-nfc-north","tag-nfl","wpcat-120-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6777"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6785,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777\/revisions\/6785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}