Teams increasingly do preseason work at regular-season facilities
Two weekends before the season opens, training camps are ending. For some teams, however, they never really began. In a copy-cat league, this is a rare philosophical difference: the question of whether traditional training camps have outlived their usefulness.
Thirteen NFL teams staged camp at their in-season facility, choosing to eschew the age-old ritual in which they pack up and leave town for a month, usually sequestering themselves on a college campus in the wilderness.
This trend, encompassing the 49ers for the first time, has been accelerating. ...
more
Two weekends before the season opens, training camps are ending. For some teams, however, they never really began. In a copy-cat league, this is a rare philosophical difference: the question of whether traditional training camps have outlived their usefulness.
Thirteen NFL teams staged camp at their in-season facility, choosing to eschew the age-old ritual in which they pack up and leave town for a month, usually sequestering themselves on a college campus in the wilderness.
This trend, encompassing the 49ers for the first time, has been accelerating. ...
more
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