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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thirteen Below" data-source="post: 1036558" data-attributes="member: 18006">No kidding. It's certainly come a long way from 50, 60 years ago, when training camp ran 6 or 7 weeks, or even a little longer - and they had 6 preseason games every year. By the time the season started, the teams were hitting on all cylinders right from Week One. Nowadays, the first few games of the seasonn are almost like an extensiopn of the preseason as far as the learning curve is concerned for younger players. There is some talk now of changing that, moving the spring classes and OTAs into late June/early July and making training camp a continuous 8-week process ramping up to the season opener. The players' union is considering proposing that, on the theory that it would reduce soft tissue injuries. They feel that two periods of high-level physical activity packed into small time frames (separated by long periods of relative inactivity) are causing injuries because the players are pushing themselves too hard in the shorter blocks of time.[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.journal-news.net/journal-news/nfl-players-union-could-propose-trading-spring-practices-for-longer-training-camp/article_70b2862a-c95d-50bc-b009-f1f8e453e565.html[/URL]</blockquote>

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