Quote:What's funny is next year when they tone down the practice for rookie mini-camp, all you guys laughing at me now will then be like, "Hey ya good idea, Gus and DC."

Good luck hoping that happens.  It won't.  You can wring your hands with every practice session as you worry about non contact injuries.

Quote:I've been told by various fans of other teams that they don't have 11 on 11 scrimmage type practices during mini-camp.

 

There is contact in a no-pads practice, especially if you have drills where defensive linemen engage offensive linemen.

 

Skirts. ha... ha.. ha man you're so funny.  You accept the risk of practicing when it actually matters.  Rookie mini-camp is about as pointless as it gets.

 

That's a load of garbage.  Every team basically runs the same drills with different variations.  I've been to other camps, and seen every training camp by every coach this franchise has had, and 11x11, 9x7, 7x7 are all staples regardless of who is coaching.  And the number of players in non-contact drills is completely irrelevant anyway. 

 

I'm well aware that there is contact in non-contact drills.  I've been to 1 or 2 practices in my lifetime.  There was absolutely MINIMAL contact on the play where Fowler blew his knee out. 

 

Every practice matters, especially for rookies.

 

They're not watering down practices. They have to get these guys prepared with an extremely limited ability to do so on the field.  That's why they run those 11x11 drills that apparently your friends say aren't happening. 

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