July means a lot of things. It's a time for vacations and taking it easy, for the most part. We're still two months away from the college football season. College baseball is over, as are the Stanley Cup and NBA playoffs. Other than baseball, it's a really quiet time. So quiet that Jon is reduced to talking soccer.
So in the "dog days of summer," any news about football becomes big news, and that means that for the next couple of weeks, the various award committees will start rolling out their "watch lists" for players that might have any sort of shot at winning an award.