If there is a reserve molecule of oxygen, count on the National Football League to consume, package and promote it as the most important element in everyone’s news, regardless of the time of day or year.
You are not opening a clear path to becoming a $ 25 billion industry without burning the retina and monopolizing the attention span. With the leak of the 2022 schedule, it is as if the Pentagon’s papers are in question. Or framing the May 7-on-7 exercises without making them vital to the January celebration.
Whoever says something from the podium in the spring is either lying or mixing a delicious but unfulfilled salad of words that will leave you craving carbs and a stronger playoff for the NHL and NBA.
Headlines on ProFootballTalk.com would lead you to believe that players, coaches and front offices are reinventing conditioning, techniques and schemes like Henry Ford turning four cylinders into automotive gold.
Predictable bromides range from astonishing weight gain…
“Justin Herbert says he’s ‘caught’ in the gym, now he’s 245”
… For revolutionary weight loss:
“McJones is in the best shape of his life after changing his diet this off-season. “
Hearing that, the twin who left Miguel Sano said: “Keep my IPA.
In Miami, meanwhile, incoming receiver Tyrick Hill apparently suffered from Patrick Mahomes’ complete amnesia when he said:
“Tua Tagovailoa has one of the most beautiful balls I’ve ever caught”
There are shallow shouts to those gray-haired veterans who have voluntarily disappeared in action, such as that inoculated but misunderstood misanthrope in Green Bay:
“Matt LaFleur: Aaron Rodgers is not in OTAs, but in ‘great spirit'”
No banality of water being wet has been discovered in Jacksonville, where PTSD is spreading months after Urban Meyer was canceled faster than Judas in a bread basket.
“Trevor Lawrence: It’s fun to have a group that communicates really well.”
Nothing drives stories better than an abandoned quarterback veteran who gets a fresh start in a new market, like Matt Ryan breathed life back into Indianapolis thanks to his back-whispering coach, Frank Reich.
“I knew he was a great passer, but his precision is crazy!”
And I’m pretty sure the NFL is banning the target, although Caroline’s former quarterback obviously didn’t get a note in the future after last season’s total system failure.
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“Darnold himself is convinced that he can be one of the best KBs in the league”
In Egan, Viking quarterback Kirk Cousins is still eating milk and reading flashcards while learning a new scheme and language for first-time coach Kevin O’Connell. Skillful Dodger admitted that everything is different, but not at all, provided that the tyrant whose name will never be spoken thinks on his ranch and that everything smells like roses again.
Reporters noticed that Dalvin Cook was standing in line for the reception - as he did at some point each off-season - and internet aggregators immediately turned him into Christian McEfrey, Marshall Fock, Roger Craig or Walter Peyton, depending on your era. .
By the way, Cat is completely out of the bag about the versatility of the offensive superstar of Minnesota. There is no doubt that LaFleur and his favorites in northeastern Wisconsin have given up on everything they did to rethink how to defend a player who had previously run for admission, having been in the NFL for all six years.
Breathe, folks. It’s May.
I spent an exhausting 20 minutes googling the NFL’s origins of “Organized Team Activities.” Unfortunately, there was no oral history I could find.
Best of all, the term appeared in a lexicon sometime in the 1990s as a way to separate voluntary (OTA) and involuntary (minicamp) training.
There is no doubt that the lawyer made the term from the corporate manual and the translated Latin dictionary. The NFL has an army of them.
The 10 weeks of action between the draft at the end of April and the beginning of the training camp at the end of July are prescribed for 5,000 words and 12 pages in the collective agreement between the owner and the player for 456 pages.
Article 21 explains all this in detail. I’ll spare you the lead tongue. In essence, teams schedule three phases of face-to-face meetings, classroom lectures, and diluted fieldwork.
The rules vary in stages, but generally speaking, live contact is prohibited. There are no one-on-one position exercises. Players may be required to wear helmets, but without pads. There are no blockades or attacks. They are ranked 7 on 7, 9 on 7 and 11 on 11.
There are JUGGS machines for spitting out balls, blockers and dolls. Coaches may or may not be able to talk, shout, embarrass or teach players depending on the day of the week.
For a sport shrouded in free market greed, old fame, and American excellence, there is certainly no shortage of strict regulations or corporate socialism in the NFL welfare state.
Of course, nothing would stop the ocean of content and vows of quarrels that spring from team facilities across the country.
Face it, people. We are a nation of football addicts. Pushers on Park Avenue know that. Other leagues know that. And no matter what the calendar says, the NFL will be at the top 24/7/365, from free agency and preparation / autopsy to off-season training and training camp.
So much chatter that needs to be searched before what really matters starts on September 8th.
Enjoy junk food. Just remember what you chew.