Quote:This whole argument is ridiculous.  The teams are so hampered now by the NFLPA agreement and the very limited practices, the rookie camp is important.  People are always arguing that the players need to be ‘coached up’.  The coaches are getting their first (or one of the first) up close experience with these players.  That's the whole point, there are no veterans there.  Only rookies.

 

Using the proposed logic…and I use that term loosely…we shouldn’t have OTAs either.  The veterans are just running around with the shorts on anyway and we ‘know they are going to make the team anyway’.  So we should just limit all coaching and preparation to the two weeks of training camp.  I mean, we shouldn’t be making these players prepare when it doesn’t matter anyway.

 

Let’s just ignore the fact that the players are going to be running around in full pads…at close to full speed…once training camp begins.  If anything, that’s where you should be worried about an injury.  It was a freak accident.  There was far less contact than there would have been in training camp.  [BAD WORD REMOVED] happens.  Get over it.  I find this whole premise laughable.

 

No, using the proposed logic you might make sure your best players are not doing intense drills that are more likely to result in injury during OTAs.  Using the proposed logic, you would make certain players completely off limits to contact (which is actually applied by almost every team).

 

Im not ignoring traiing camp.  In fact, I've mentioned it several times in various posts.  You get over it.

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