12-29-2021, 12:01 AM
(12-28-2021, 11:37 PM)Roland Wrote: Really? Says who?
"Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Jordan Palmer, right, holds a play book
for rookie quarterback Andy Dalton, center, and receiver Jordan Shipley
during a players organized football workout, Wednesday, June 15, 2011
at the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)
Al Behrman"
https://www.nfl.com/photos/nfl-player-only-workouts-09000d5d81fd875c#1c529cfe-1fd8-46c9-8280-ad2b521d2dca
Says reality.
"That task is even harder given the roadblocks to their development. Rookies have no access to coaches, film or the very training facilities that they will call home for the next few years. Most don't even have playbooks, unless they were lucky enough to be first-round picks. Those players were able to get playbooks when they visited their teams on the second day of the draft, the only period when the lockout was temporarily lifted following an injunction granted to players by U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson on April 25."
https://www.espn.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=chadiha_jeffri&id=6615041
The training, nutrition, medicine, fitness, playbooks and rules evolve. The athlete does not.