Veterans like that don't NEED training camp like others do, its still nice, but they can still go without it if they had to.
Especially Al, you'd think if you brought him in to be our third or even fourth corner he would be a more viable option than what we have, he's been in this league forever! We needed both of these guys today, and one would have been awesome.. I sure hope Brett doesnt pick us apart again.
This is wrong in so many levels.
First of all, everybody needs training camp. There are different installs on defense every single season. They may not need OTAs and minicamp, but that's another story.
Second of all, the problem isn't that they missed TC. It's that they haven't had any football contact in 6 months. It's one thing to be fully recovered from injury, it's another for your body to be fully prepared for football. It's not even the issue of them playing well, which they probably wouldn't, given the little practice time. It's the fact that their body isn't ready for the kind of punishment, so they probably could play one game, but they would re-injury themselves in the process.
